Learn how ANDRITZ helps mills advance autonomy by reducing operator workload and optimizing decision-making, and explore more about the autonomy levels to understand your mill's potential to achieve smarter, more efficient operations.

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How to Achieve Autonomy

Combine Solutions to Decrease Operator Workload

Achieving autonomy in industrial processes involves strategically integrating various solutions to reduce the workload on operators.

By automating routine tasks and enhancing decision-making processes with advanced technologies, operators can focus on more critical and value-added activities.

Discover how ANDRITZ's Digital Solutions can support Operators deal with planned/unplanned events and continuous production controls: 

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By leveraging its extensive experience in digitalization, ANDRITZ provides a comprehensive suite of tools that work together to streamline operations, improve efficiency, and reduce human error.

Decision Levels in a Mill 

Focus on What Matters

In a mill, decision-making occurs at various levels, each with its responsibilities and scope.

The operator's,  production managers, and mill management's decision levels represent different tiers of authority and involvement in the overall functioning of the mill, as they consume a different amount of time to take place:
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Integrating autonomous operations with decision-making at different levels in a mill can lead to a more efficient, faster, and safer production environment.

It allows human decision-makers to focus on strategic and complex tasks while leveraging automation for routine and data-intensive operations.

Levels of Autonomy

Identify your Mill's Potential

To further comprehend the contextual scenario of autonomy possibilities, it is essential to understand the autonomy level that your mill currently is and it's highest potential to achieve.

The ANDRITZ definition of levels of autonomy is based on the ARC Autonomous Operations Maturity Model. This model closely follows the autonomy levels applied to self-driving cars, which are defined in the standard SAE J 3016-2018.

Learn more about our Levels of autonomy:

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ANDRITZ Digital Solutions through the Autonomy Levels

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