ProcessOpt is our intelligence industrial platform — smart-vision instruments, a live digital twin of your plant, and advanced process control that turns shift-by-shift drift into recovery, throughput and profit. Our own controllers and SCADA are on the roadmap, so one day the whole loop runs on Aeterna.
Sense the plant, model where it's heading, optimize the next move, constrain to safety — that's what ProcessOpt does today. Aeterna's own control-system hardware is coming, so one day the safety layer runs on us too.
Economic MPC that computes the best next move each cycle toward your objective — throughput, recovery, energy per tonne — while respecting every equipment and safety limit. You keep the authority to accept or automate it.
Neural-network computer-vision sensors — SmartRock for particle size, SmartFroth for froth velocity, BallManager for mill charge. Built by embedded engineers who work alongside process engineers. They give the control room a head start, without replacing the people who know the plant.
A live process model calibrated against your historian — for monitoring, forecasting, and what-if scenarios without touching the plant. The same model can be deployed as the MPC's prediction engine, so circuit understanding built in the twin carries directly into control.
Our own control-system hardware and logic-editor software, designed for the process environments we work in every day. Not a Siemens-clone; an honest, open, ruggedized platform for the operators who want the whole stack from one team that cares. In development — talk to us if you'd like to shape the roadmap.
We are mineral processing, automation, and embedded-system engineers who understand the process end-to-end — and how to turn a plant's pain into a solution that pays back in under a year.
You stay in control. ProcessOpt advises your existing control system rather than replacing it — your plant keeps its safety and interlock logic exactly as commissioned, and you decide when to move from advice to automation. The people who know the plant stay in charge.
Aeterna's technology is designed for process operators. Here's where we've deployed it, and where we're heading next.
SAG mill circuits, flotation cells, ball charge. SmartRock + SmartFroth + BallManager + MPC + Digital Twin running today, sending straight answers to control rooms every cycle.
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Fleet Management and Mining Operation Systems — truck routing, fuel optimization, weighbridge, XRF-handheld sample capture, LIMS, stockpile and geology. Piloting for nickel first; the pattern generalises.
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A conversation with our engineers — not a sales script. Share what you're trying to solve and we'll tell you honestly whether ProcessOpt fits, where it would fit best, and what a low-risk pilot on your data would look like.
