DEREK DU PREEZ

Manager Tech & ImprovementSouth32

Digital Mine: Pit to Port Transformation Journey

JONATHAN MCCORMICK

Digital Transformation LeadDeloitte

NATHAN FORMBY

Principal Solution ArchitectGE Digital

MAGNUS NILSSON

Information Analytics LeadSouth32

South32 – Who we are

We want to make a difference to the world by developing natural resources in a safe and sustainable way, bringing long-term benefits to the communities we work with.

By investing in high-quality assets and maintaining financial discipline, we are unlocking value for our shareholders and global partners.

Purpose & Strategy

We are a global resources company, producing products that are used in nearly every aspect of our daily lives.

Africa SingaporeAustralia LondonSouth America

Locations

AluminaAluminiumBauxiteEnergy coalMetallurgical coal

Commodities

LeadNickelManganeseSilverZinc

The safety of people

Productivity: operations not running at their full potential

Ongoing cost challenges through commodity cycles

Degrading ore quality: more impurities, more complex to blend and process

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Data: multiple sources and disparate data

Increasing social, environmental and regulatory pressuresimpacting licence to operate

Siloed value chains: end to end integration and optimisation4 |

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Mining Industry Challenges

Areas of Strategic Focus

Our investment in technology and innovation will be guided by three areas of strategic focus to drive value.

Digital Mining

SUPPLIERS EXPLORATION & DEVELOPMENT MINING PROCESSING MAINTENANCE &

LOGISTICS TRANSPORT CUSTOMERS

Digitised Geological Data

Equipment Automation and

Remote Operation

IoT sensors for real time data capture

‘Digital Twin’ –Digitised engineering and asset information

Drones for inspection, stock and safety

monitoring

Wearables for field maintenance and operator safety

Diverse mobile connected workforce

Automated Operations and Digitised Assets

Digital Mining

Digital Core Platform

REAL-TIME DATAShort interval control and operational improvement from real-time data and

analytics

DIGITAL COREData-driven planning and decision-making

HISTORICALImproved visualisation, reporting and analysis of

historical data

FUTUREAnalytics for future

modelling, prediction and

simulation

DATAPLATFORMSIntegrated data

platforms

DIGITAL TWINDigitised engineering and asset information

SUPPLY HUMAN RESOURCESFINANCE SUSTAINABILITY LEGAL SHARED SERVICES MARKETING

Automated Support Processes and Enabling Platforms

“Re-imagined” cloud- based ERP

IT OT ConvergenceRobotic process automation (RPA)

Network connectivity and bandwidth

Cyber security

Digital Mining

We know how to enable successful delivery

Design led, Agile Enabled

We know how to enable successful delivery

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Value Focused

We know how to deliver value “pit to port”

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Get Smart Get Guidance

• Access the wide number of specialized operational technology systems

• Data is available to all users

• Understand the source of the truth for data

• Making faster decisions since everyone has common insights

• See what’s happening now

Get Optimized

• Leverage asset centric machine learning to look at fleet health and prioritise effort

• Be alerted to changing operational conditions

• Capture human expertize to enable knowledge management

• Perform what-if analysis to determine actions that have highest impact to business goals

• Utilise the digital thread to understand the value chain impacts of events

• Balance assets to optimize for lowest operating cost, longest services intervals or life of mine

• Resource optimization and waste reduction

The Starting Point for Digital Industrial Transformation

GE Solution Roadmap for Mining TransformationO

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Equipment Processes Operations Business

new businessmodels

complianceto plan

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experton-demandPIID Loop

optimization

DigitalTwin

KPI

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BrilliantBlend

OEE

DigitalTwi

APMField

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collisionavoidance

in-vehicleunit

DigitalTwin

Cyber Security + Predix Platform

Digital Vision | Digitised Assets and Operations

Integrated Planning and Scheduling

Maintenance Optimisation

Operations Visualisation and Optimisation

Real Time Data Emerging Technologies MobilityOre Body

SUPPLIERS EXPLORATION & DEVELOPMENT MINING PROCESSING MAINTENANCE &

LOGISTICS TRANSPORT CUSTOMERS

Digitised Geological Data

Equipment Automation and

Remote Operation

IoT sensors for real time data capture

‘Digital Twin’ – Digitised engineering and asset

information

Drones for inspection, stock and safety monitoring

Wearables for field maintenance and operator

safety

Diverse mobile connected workforce

Digitised Assets & Operations

Digital Vision | Automated Operations and Digitised Assets

Digital Vision | Automated Operations and Digitised Assets

Digital Vision | Asset Performance Management

Work Management

Asset Management

RiskManagement

APM

(Documented benefits achieved in the first two years of over 125 APM sample implementations)

Maintenance Optimisation

Outcomes

More sustainable energy andwater usage

Improvedemployee experience and collaboration

IncreasedMargins

ImprovedProductivity

Smarterdecisions

Saferworkplace

Examples of where we are testing technology to drive outcomes

• Asset Performance Management for predictive maintenance

Maintenance Optimisation

Operations Visualisation and Optimisation

• Ore body knowledge tracking

• Operations Optimisation with Advanced Process Control

• Operations data visualisation • Automated drone inspections

Ore Body Knowledge

Integrated Planning and Scheduling

• Real time asset tracking and compliance to plan

Digital Vision | Expected Outcomes

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