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ABB GroupApril 12, 2010 | Slide 1

Underground mining seminarABB in the future of undergroundmining

Jan Classon and Mario Inostroza S. April, 2010


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AGENDA

1. ABB & Business Unit Overview

1. A global leader in power and automation

2. Innovation is competitive advantage

2. Market Trends & Driving Force in Mining

3. Underground Mines Challenges

4. Future of Underground Mining

5. ABB Building the Future

6. References in underground mine

7. Conclusion and Question


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A global leader in power and automation technologiesLeading market positions in main businesses

117,000 employees in about 100 countries

$32 billion in revenue (2009)

Formed in 1988 merger of Swiss andSwedish engineering companies

Predecessors founded in 1883 and 1891

Publicly owned company with head office inSwitzerland

ABB portfolio covers:

Electrical, automation, control andinstrumentations for power and industrial

processes

Power transmission, distribution solutionand low voltage products

Robots and robot systems.


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Innovation is key to ABBs competitive advantageLeadership built on consistent R&D investment

More than $1 billion invested annually in R&D*

6,000 scientists and engineers

Collaboration with 70 universities MIT (US), Tsinghua (China), KTH Royal Institute of

Technology (Sweden), Indian Institute of Science (Bangalore),ETH (Switzerland), Karlsruhe (Germany)

* Comprisesnon-orderrelated R&D andorder-relateddevelopment


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Market trends & driving forces

Safety, health and live quality a strong driving force!

Deeper and remote location

Increasing share of underground mines in the future

Decrease in capital expenditure, cost and energy used

Environmental issues

Closure mines

Water and waste treatment

Energy efficiency

Emissions - Kyoto agreement

More regulations MINER Act 2006, EU

Difficulty to recruit fully-qualified workforce and the necessity

of new organization structure

Intelligent integrated mine operations


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Underground Mine Challenges

Decreasing copper grade of the mineral and deeper mining

exploitation.

Harder Complex minerals, less joints and presence of

contaminants.

Mines are located in remote areas

Bigger transport distances for minerals

Intensive fuel energy used with high C02 emissions

Many real time information

Material movement is a huge burden - thus goals of more

primary separation as early in the process as possible

Harsh environment and risks inside the mine

Increasing demands in sustainable development, live quality

of workers, intensive bargaining with Communities and high

environment requirements.


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Future Underground Mining*

*Future mining conference 2008, CODELCO and ABB

PRESENT

FUTURE

PAST

All workers inside the mine

Intensive use of fossil energy

Low technological and automatedprocesses

Automatedprocesses

Some remote operations

Centralized control rooms

Continuousmining

Minimumworkersinsidethemine

Autonomousequipmentandprocesses

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On demandventilation

Hoistingsystems

Mobile assets

Machine control

Water handling

Surface plants

Instrumentation

Machine TrackingManpower trackingTrain control

Fan controlDoor controlBlastingFire handling

Loading pocketsCrushersSheedersFeedersConveyors

Pump systems

VentilationProcess equipment

Concentration plantsPelletizing plants(Train) loading systemsVentilation SystemsWater Treatment PlantEarthworksElectrical SubstationSewage Water SystemsDomestic Water SystemsProcess Water Systems

Surface PumpsConveying/CrushingELS

Refill plants (paste)

Main control room - Surface

ABB in Mining


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ABB Building the Future

Integration Electrical, Automated controland Instrumentation Process throughDCS (800xA)

Regenerative Variable Speed MotorDrives for conveyor belt and hoist

system

Development in Ultrahigh voltage

Partnership with GIA Industri AB inKiruna Electric Truck

Partnership between IBM and ABB:main strengths are: Enterpriseapplication and Industry automationexpertise.

Proxies

to otherbuses

Fieldbus Network

Controllers

Servers

Workplaces

MV

Drives

MV

Switchgear

LV

Switchgear

LV

ProductsDrives

Remote I/O

Instrumentation

Control Network

HV Valves

GIS

AIS

Distribution

trafo

Power

trafo


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Power Distribution

Power Management

Process Electrification

LV & MV

Ethernet Control Network

Remote Operator and

Engineering Clients

System

Servers

Process

Automation

Operation EngineeringMaintenance

Safety

Knowledge Portals as Thin ClientsMES and Business Systems

ECS, ISA-95, OPC

3rd party PLCs

Serial, OPC..Operation

Local

Panels

Process

Instrumentation

- Switchgears

- Smart MCCs

- Frequency

converters

- Multi-drive

- Network control &

protection

- Load Shedding

TCP/IP

IEC61850

Extended Operator Workplace

Electrical Integration with ABB System 800xA


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ABB references in underground mines

CANADA: ABB Scope A full suite of automation and power solutions

New hoisting plant

Ventilation on demand system

Automation system in pumping, drills, Scoopsand truck Haulage

Fixed and mobile asset monitoring

Manpower tracking and Energy savingsprograms

CHILE: COM

Business Model which includes: Technology

+ APS First 8-year Contract signed by Codelco for

Technology Supply, Performance BasedMaintenance Service, and Financing.

First centralized real time AssetsManagement system for Underground Mines.


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ABB references in mines (Cont.)

Brazil

Robotic truck washing:

Cycle time reduction

Increase truck availability

Productivity

Better working conditions

Sweden

Very long experience in the Underground

Mining Industry

Currently more than 650 mine hoists

delivered to > 30 countries

First system delivered Boliden Sweden 1937 LKAB Kiruna, Sweden 2008


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Conclusion

ABB could be a good partner for CODELCO

in order to build the future.


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