As demand for minerals and materials continues to grow, mining, metals and minerals companies must invest in new capacity while extracting greater value from the assets and infrastructure they already operate.
Automation has transformed individual equipment and processes, but the next step is bigger than automating more assets. It requires connected operations in which trusted, contextualised information brings together engineering intent, operational reality and business priorities across the value chain.
This is the foundation for more intelligent and increasingly autonomous operations—helping organisations improve throughput, recovery and asset performance while making better decisions about capital, energy, water and emissions.
These themes will be explored during the live webinar, Advancing Mining, Metals and Minerals: From Automation to Intelligent Operations, taking place on Thursday, 1 October at 12:00 SAST.
Glenn Kerkhoff, Global Industry Principal for Mining, Metals & Minerals at AVEVA, will provide a concise introduction to the path from automation to intelligent operations. He will explore how a trusted industrial data foundation and industrial AI can help organisations connect information across assets and value chains, respond more effectively to changing conditions and balance investment in new capacity with the continuous improvement of existing operations.
Bringing this story to life, Grigorios Paschalis, Metallurgy Technology Director at METLEN Energy & Metals, will share how limited visibility into bauxite consumption was affecting process improvement at its alumina refinery. Bauxite-blending instructions were not always followed consistently, and the operation lacked real-time information about the grades being consumed.
METLEN deployed an AI-powered application to identify and track varying bauxite grades in real time, enabling better digestion control, optimising alumina yield and reducing bauxite-specific consumption by 10%.
Join Glenn and Grigorios to explore the strategic path towards intelligent operations and see how industrial AI is already delivering measurable operational value.
Date: Thursday, 1 October 2026
Time: 12:00 SAST
Format: Live webinar, with the recording available on demand
