Drive and automation systems have to be continuously available in any industry and all over the world. Increased wear or missing spare parts can lead to a standstill of the entire plant and cause noticeable financial loss for their owner. 

That´s why Kirkland Lake Gold wanted Siemens to provide a comprehensive Motor Management Program to ensure the availability and also improve the efficiency of their motors. All key operations should be taken over by the service partner. In order to achieve this, all motors needed to be identified, analyzed and optimized. Furthermore, the customer requires a partner who can store large spares off-site.

The Motor Management Program (MMP) for Kirkland Lake Gold consisted of:

• Analysis of the data and development of an efficiency-enhancing program.
• Detailed audit of all in service and spare motors.
• Transfer of the collected data into the web-based MMP tool.
• Based on the results, the plant with all its motors was optimized.
• Furthermore, all spare motors and parts are stored externally in a Siemens warehouse.

Kirkland Lake Gold Inc. is an intermediate Canadian gold producer with assets in the Kirkland Lake gold camp and the east of the Timmins gold camp, both located in the Lower Abitibi Greenstone belt of northeastern Ontario. The Company owns five former high grade gold mines within the Kirkland Lake camp that produced 22 million ounces at an average grade of 15.1 grams per tonne and controls a strike length of 120 kilometres along the Porcupine-Destor Fault Zone, which has produced 100 million ounces of gold from Timmins eastwards towards Val Dor in Quebec. The company currently operates the Macassa mine complex, the Holt, Holloway and Taylor mines and is targeting a production of between 270,000 and 290,000 ounces of gold in 2016.