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Tata Power makes digital self-healing grid a reality with EcoStruxure™

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India-based Tata Power provides electricity to more than 350,000 households in the Mumbai area. The utility is committed to delivering reliable power to their customers by means of systematic improvements to their network. Tata Power focused on energy management solutions are critical to the company’s strategy to boost operational and business excellence. Their demand-side and supply-side quality management solutions deployed led to both enhanced customer experience and improved profitability. Challenges in delivering efficient power From the demand- and supply-side, a quality management solution was needed to both enhance the customer experience and improve profitability. Tata Power identified two major challenges in delivering reliable power. First was to identify theft areas (commercial losses) and improper quantification at points of occurrence. There was no real-time data and therefore less ability to avoid technical losses. Mumbai is a very distributed area, and this makes it ...

Mining Industry Transformation: Agile Mining Operations of Critical Importance to Mining Success

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By Rachel K. Carson (MarCom Intern for Process Industries) Adapted from IDC Perspective: Mining Industry Transformation written by Emilie Ditton. Change is something we are all accustomed to at some point in our lives. Whether this be major or minor difference, change impacts how we do daily activities and requires that we alter the way we do things to adequately meet the needs of the imposed change. The mining industry has begun a change; a true transformation . Commodity prices, increased willingness to embrace technology and process change, and the need to competitively differentiate is supporting the transformative momentum that is building. At its core the transformation is enabled by the creation of mining organizations built around agile mining operations . Operations that enable the utilization of data for decision making across processes, within processes, and across the enterprise continuously. All mining processes and roles will be affected, but mostly the mine itself wil...