On August 17 of this year, the Almalyk Mining and Metallurgical Complex was visited by a delegation of representatives of the state enterprise “Navoiyuran”, working in the field of digitalization.

In the executive office of the plant, a meeting was held between the Deputy Chairman of the Board of Almalyk MMC JSC for digitalization, Abdulla Azizov, specialized specialists of the plant with representatives of the state enterprise Navoiyuran.

During the meeting, guests were provided with information about the work being carried out as part of the digital transformation of AMMC. As A. Azizov said, over the past year, the plant implemented 48 projects (23 of them planned, 25 unplanned) in this direction. These are projects related to the improvement of business process management systems, automation of the mining and transport complex and production automation. This year it is planned to implement more than 40 projects and other tasks. Of these, 17 have already been implemented (business process management - 5, infrastructure and cybersecurity - 4, production management - 2 and process automation - 6). For example, in order to increase the efficiency of the management system and digitalization of office work, an information system for the management of motor transport and logistics (Transport Management System) was introduced in the road transport department, through which more than 1,000 units of vehicles and equipment are monitored. Also, the submission and acceptance of applications for transport is carried out completely electronically.

In accordance with the concept of paperless work (Paperless work) and a unified identification system, the E-Talon information system has been introduced at AMMC, within which more than 36 thousand employees are provided with new ID cards. As a result, the amount of paper work has been reduced, and the reporting process now takes less than 7 times less time. More than 20 electronic templates have been created in the “Journals” information system. The system made it possible to maintain 70% of paper logs in electronic form and analyze the data.

Thanks to the information system of interactive dashboards (BI), the speed of automatic collection and processing of “online” information from production and business processes, as well as various automated systems, increased by 80%. 6 types of paper reports were digitized, which reduced the time for their generation by 3 times.

Also introduced: digital archive (paper consumption reduced by 25%); project management system (efficiency of management, analysis and control increased by 25%); a new digital radio station at the Yoshlik I quarry (100 vehicles and 35 workers are provided with radio communications); IP telephony in the Kochbulak, Semguron and Kayragach mines (fiber optic communication lines with a length of 10 km have been laid).

In order to automate production processes and use modern information systems, 27 modern digital strain gauge scales were installed at the copper concentration plant. This made it possible to achieve an accuracy of measuring the weight of ore in the technological process up to 99.8%. Also, in order to automate the technological process of the seventh monosection, 405 instrumentation and 26 control cabinets were installed. 320 dosing pumps and 14 new reagent tanks were adjusted and put into operation.

Together with specialists from Metso-Outotec and Engineering Dobersek, the uninterrupted operation of the control system, instrumentation of the Vanyukov furnace and the sulfuric acid shop of the copper smelter was ensured.

As part of the implementation of automatic control of mills (SAU-3M), the instrumentation cabinets at the Khandiza mine were completely updated, which created the opportunity for the operator to monitor deviations from the technological regulations and monitor the condition of the technological equipment.

During the visit, the guests also visited the Kalmakyr mine, a copper concentration plant, where they were able to observe with their own eyes the work of all information technology systems introduced as part of digitalization.

Thus, representatives of the delegation were thoroughly familiar with the ERP, SCADA, LIMS, SAP systems, as well as programs for monitoring and analyzing production processes and data.

“Today we were able to witness active work being carried out at AMMC in the field of information technology. Currently, our company pays great attention to the processes of digitalization of production. During the visit, we were able to learn a lot of new and useful things. We also decided to purchase software systems from AMMC for further implementation at home. Another important point that we drew attention to is that digitalization processes at AMMC are proceeding quite quickly. And it pays off at relatively low cost. We plan to further strengthen our cooperation with the plant,” Khasan Khaidarov, Deputy General Director of Navoiyuran GK, shared his impressions of the visit.

It should be noted that the purpose of this visit is to ensure the implementation of the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated July 14, 2022 No. PP-319 “On measures to increase the volume of uranium mining, processing and transformation of the State Enterprise “Navoiyuran” in 2022-2030.”