Process intelligence for concentrators
OptiFlow
Intelligence that moves with your operation.
A living flowsheet for copper, lead-zinc and polymetallic concentrators — trained on your SCADA history, your assays, your best operators.
One plant. Two behaviours.
OptiFlow learns your flowsheet, explains what it’s doing, and shows safe operating windows — not rigid setpoints.
What it delivers
Three ways OptiFlow pays for itself.
Ramp up in weeks, not quarters.
Pilot plants typically hit stable recovery 6–10 weeks earlier than the baseline commissioning curve. Push throughput sooner, with confidence you can back up.
More payable metal. Fewer smelter penalties.
OptiFlow flags recovery drift and off-spec concentrate before they show up in daily assays. Operators catch the silent losses that hide between shift reports and the monthly metal balance.
The best shift becomes the baseline.
OptiFlow captures the judgement of your strongest operators and makes it available to every crew, every shift. Plant knowledge stops walking out the door with one person.
OptiFlow is a decision-support layer for mineral processing plants. It learns your flowsheet from SCADA history, assay data, P&IDs and the judgement of your best operators — then explains why the plant is behaving the way it is and where the safe operating windows sit.
It advises.Your people decide.That’s how it earns trust before it earns autonomy.
- Status
- Pre-commercial
- Pilots
- Two concentrator operators
- 2026 Intake
- Limited — briefing by application
Run it smarter.Ramp it faster.Protect the margin.
// OPTIFLOW — FAQ
Common questions on OptiFlow
What flowsheets and commodities does OptiFlow target?
OptiFlow is built for copper, lead-zinc and polymetallic concentrators — flowsheets where recovery, grade and concentrate quality depend on a chain of interacting unit operations (crushing, milling, flotation, dewatering). It is not a generic process-simulation tool; it learns the specific flowsheet of each plant from that plant’s data.What input data does OptiFlow need?
SCADA history, assay data, P&IDs and the operational knowledge of experienced operators. OptiFlow connects to the plant historian (PI, Aveva, Wonderware and equivalents), supervised assay databases, and a structured workshop process for capturing the heuristics your strongest crews already use. It does not require an analytics-data-warehouse migration to start.Does OptiFlow control the plant?
No — OptiFlow advises, operators decide. It surfaces safe operating windows, flags recovery drift and off-spec concentrate before they show up in shift reports, and explains why the plant is behaving a given way. Closed-loop control is a possible future direction, but every current pilot keeps the operator in the loop. That is how the system earns trust before it earns autonomy.When can our concentrator pilot OptiFlow?
OptiFlow is pre-commercial. Two concentrator operators are currently in pilot, and we are taking a limited number of new sites for 2026. Engagement begins with a plant walkthrough and a scoping conversation about flowsheet, data availability and the recovery or quality problem the operator most wants to crack.