MiningMining companies are increasingly adopting digital technologiesTechnology to improve operational efficiencyOperational Efficiency and address production bottlenecks. Often cases, the producers try to focus on optimizing one area using new solutions and technologiesTechnology. However, addressing one bottleneck can lead to the bottleneck moving elsewhere in the process. To mitigate this, Andritz developed a Sitewide roadmap for Digital TransformationDigital transformation, a structured approach that partners Andritz with miningMining companies to identify, prioritize, and implement optimizationOptimization projects across a mineMine site. Andritz, together with the customer, develops a tailored roadmap that includes advanced control strategies and process simulations to target key operational areas. A critical part of this approach is ensuring that each operational area has the proper instrumentation required for advanced control solutions. Andritz begins by assessing instrumentation readiness, recommending upgrades or adjustments where needed to ensure accurate data collection. In collaboration with a copperCopper mineMine in ArizonaArizona, Andritz applied this method to various parts of the processingProcessing plant. OptimizationOptimization solutions spanned the mineMine to areas including grindingGrinding, flotationFlotation and tailings circuits. The full roadmap of projects enabled the copperCopper mineMine to experience a 6.7% ore throughputThroughput increase and 7.6% decrease in SAG millSAG mill specific energy. The solutions in the tailing circuit helped with more water recoveryWater recovery and resulted in about 2% power savings. The team is currently commissioning the APCAdvanced Process Control (APC) solution for the flotationFlotation circuit step-by-step. The level control and better grind size control have so far contributed to about 0.4% increase in recoveryRecovery with more to expect after optimizing mass pull.