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SUPPLIERS REPORT on IDT's technology and solutions to offer them across Latin America and then globally. These integrated solutions include rectifiers (high-power equipment for any kind of electrolysis process), harmonic filters (power quality assurance) and integrated power E-rooms of electrical equipment (including medium- and low-voltage variable speed drives, switchgears and motor control centers). With almost half of the power rectifier installed capacity in the mining industry in Chile depending upon IDT's solutions, the company is a key player in the regional mining space. Based on the quality of the company's technology capabilities and the expectations of more than $150 billion of mining investments in the next decade in Chile and Peru, it is expected that the business will create a large regional mining platform to provide solutions to its customers in Chile and Peru. To support the enhanced volumes, GE is planning to significantly expand IDT capacity by investing in a larger facility that also would support other GE businesses in Chile. Moreover, GE Power said the global scope and scale of GE coupled with its broad array of solutions makes this business particularly well positioned for significant top and bottom line growth going forward. Brazilian Contractor Applies AVEVA Design Solutions on Vanadium Project Engineering design and information management solutions provider AVEVA announced that Promon Engenharia, a Brazilian EPCM, has successfully implemented AVEVA NET and AVEVA PDMS on a large mineral processing project for Largo Resources. The project is Brazil's first vanadium pentoxide production facility and is based in Maracas, Bahia state, 250 km southwest of Salvador. According to AVEVA, implementing its Integrated Project Execution approach will enable Promon to benefit from shorter project schedules and more effective project-wide information sharing. "This is a key project for Promon Engenharia and hugely important in the mining sector," said Fabio Montrezor, Engineering Systems, Promon Engenharia. "During this greenfield project, we are supplying both basic and detailed 3-D engineering designs through the use of AVEVA PDMS. We are then able to share all file formats across the Web in a secure way via AVEVA NET. All people working on the project have access to the appropriate data at each stage of design and construction. Thanks to the adoption of AVEVA's Integrated Project Execution strategy using AVEVA software, we can organize all elements of procurement, construction, inspection and management, ensuring that all project data is up to date." "Many companies that have implemented our design and engineering software together with AVEVA NET have seen the benefits of an integrated approach," said Santiago Pena, senior vice president–Latin America, AVEVA. "Promon is combining the strengths of our engineering design and information management technologies to enhance data quality and integrity at every stage of this complex project. The adoption of the Integrated Project Execution strategy improves overall project efficiency by shortening schedules, lowering costs and improving the quality of deliverables." AVEVA's new E3D Insight offers project management staff the ability to inspect, comment upon, and approve designs at any time, from any location. www.e-mj.com According to the project's EPCM, the Maracás vanadium plant encompasses 239,700 m2. It used 10,100 m3 of concrete, 23,000 m2 of formwork, 561,557 metric tons (mt) of mesh sheets, 1,440 mt of metal structures, 235 items of mechanical equipment (2,600 mt), 158 mt of piping, 58 items of electrical equipment, 253 km of power cabling and 1,814 instruments. In late October, AVEVA also announced the launch of AVEVA E3D Insight, the Windows 8.1 app that enables project managers to view and approve AVEVA Everything3-D (AVEVA E3D) designs from a mobile tablet device. Developed in collaboration with Microsoft, AVEVA E3D offers the ability to inspect, comment upon, and approve designs at any time, from anywhere around the world. AVEVA E3D Insight enables users "on the move" to: • Visualize—The user can see the AVEVA E3D model and its associated information quickly and clearly. • Inspect—The user can inspect, manipulate, and measure the model to check for such potentially critical issues as object clashes, accessibility and noncompliance with design standards. • Comment—The user can liaise directly with the project's design team and leave a permanent record of feedback in the AVEVA E3D database itself. No more collating of comments is required and key decisions are recorded. • Approve—Authorized users can set model status to customer defined approval levels. DMT Introduces Safeguard Risk Assessment System Essen, Germany-based consulting and engineering company DMT has, for a number of years, been involved in geodetic, geotechnical and geophysical monitoring in hazardous environments through numerous geomonitoring projects. To process and analyze the extensive measurement data from various measuring instruments and sensors, the company said it has developed a hardware and software solution, which stores and analyzes all gathered data in such a way that it's available for sharing. The product, DMT Safeguard, is a modular system for safe and reliable risk assessment for projects in mining, civil engineering and environmental monitorJANUARY 2014 • E&MJ; 67