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1 © West Indies Alumina Company Joint Venture members: Glencore Alumina Jamaica Limited, Jamaica Bauxite Mining Limited. PI Informant Technological Awakening

2 © West Indies Alumina Company Friday, December 11, 2015 Windalco Joint Venture –Glencore Alumina Jamaica Ltd (93%) –Jamaica Bauxite Mining Limited (7%) Assets –Alumina Refineries – Kirkvine & Ewarton Works –Port - Port Esquivel

3 © West Indies Alumina Company Friday, December 11, 2015

4 © West Indies Alumina Company Friday, December 11, 2015 Refinery Locations

5 © West Indies Alumina Company Friday, December 11, 2015 Bayer Process

6 © West Indies Alumina Company Friday, December 11, 2015 Objective and Infrastructure DCS/Advanced Controls Department –Plant Optimisation –Technology Honeywell TPS (DCS) ABB (DCS) Expert Systems –RMPCT (Kirkvine) –Inhouse CL Programs –ABB Expert Optimiser (Kirkvine & Ewarton) PI 3 Processbook 2.3

7 © West Indies Alumina Company Friday, December 11, 2015 Why? PI Processbook has become the standard tool of management, team leaders, engineers and operators, that is, people directly connected the process. Some of the Processbook files are huge, consuming computer resources and they take some time to load up. There was a need for a ‘lightweight’ program which could access the same PI information and display it. Increase the utilisation of PI across the organisation.

8 © West Indies Alumina Company Friday, December 11, 2015 What is it? Program written completely in Visual Basic 6. Ticker type functionality (information runs across the screen). Process values are displayed under various headings which can be customized by the user.

9 © West Indies Alumina Company Friday, December 11, 2015 Features Add and Delete tags and Categories from this dialog box. Right clicking on any tag brings up a menu. Selecting Manage Tags brings up the dialog box

10 © West Indies Alumina Company Friday, December 11, 2015 Feature cont’d Pressing on Trend brings up a basic trend of the tag. Still some bugs to be worked out.

11 © West Indies Alumina Company Friday, December 11, 2015 Features cont’d Can stay on top all the other programs. Menu item is toggles this feature on and off.

12 © West Indies Alumina Company Friday, December 11, 2015 Features cont’d Can change program settings via the Preferences option. –The scroll speed and program colours can be changed. –Remembers the last settings upon start- up of the program.

13 © West Indies Alumina Company Friday, December 11, 2015 Demo

14 © West Indies Alumina Company Friday, December 11, 2015 Future Improve program with advances in PI technology and User input. Increase company wide utilisation.

15 © West Indies Alumina Company Friday, December 11, 2015 END


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