Your PI Data is sitting on a goldmine

Rio Tinto is under pressure to improve productivity, control cost,
accelerate project-to-operations continuity, and deliver real-time,
auditable energy and emissions insight—while scaling analytics, AI,
and autonomous operations across sites, fixed plant, and mobile fleets.
CONNECT helps unite trusted industrial data so Databricks initiatives can
move faster from pilots to measurable value.

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How can AVEVA help Rio Tinto?
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Rio Tinto is driving productivity, cost discipline, decarbonisation, and scale
—while shifting toward a more federated product group model.

CONNECT helps unlock more value from Rio Tinto’s existing AVEVA, PI System and Databricks
investments with trusted, scalable access to industrial data—
without disrupting what already works.

CONNECT provides a standardised, governed way to make trusted OT data available in Databricks while preserving industrial context across PI System, SCADA, production reporting, engineering and site systems. By reducing one-off integrations and manual investigation, Rio Tinto can accelerate analytics and AI initiatives, improve decision speed, and create a reusable foundation to scale outcomes across Iron Ore, Aluminium & Lithium, and Copper.

Build on existing PI System and Databricks investments without costly architectural changes.

Unite Data, Operations, and Architecture teams around around trusted, contextualised industrial information.

Preserve operational context so Databricks analytics and AI drive decisions teams can act on.

Unlock More Value from Existing PI and Databricks Investments
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Rio Tinto already relies on PI System and AVEVA solutions to capture and contextualise critical operational and engineering information, while Databricks supports enterprise analytics and AI. The challenge is consistent, repeatable delivery of trusted OT data into Databricks across many sites and systems—without multiplying fragmentation.

CONNECT brings these investments together through a scalable, standardised approach that reduces manual effort and accelerates delivery of measurable business outcomes—from predictive maintenance and energy optimisation to emissions tracking, autonomous operations, and project-to-operations continuity.

CONNECT + Databricks. Maximizing Rio Tinto's Technology Investments

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CONNECT helps Rio Tinto reduce fragmentation, accelerate analytics and AI value, and scale connected intelligence across product groups—using the operational systems the business already trusts.
CONNECT delivers value across three key areas:

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Deliver AI and Analytics Value Faster

Data and AI leaders are under pressure to scale Databricks, analytics, AI and autonomous operations while proving clear executive-level outcomes.


CONNECT helps make trusted, contextualised industrial data available in Databricks—reducing time lost searching for, validating and preparing information so teams can move faster from experimentation to operational impact.

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Turn Operational Data into Business Outcomes

Operations leaders and site teams generate vast amounts of data from fixed plant, mobile equipment and autonomous systems—but value is lost when information is hard to find, validate and connect to daily decisions.


CONNECT helps operational and engineering data flow into Databricks with context—supporting productivity improvement, downtime reduction, asset performance, energy efficiency, and auditable emissions insight that teams can action.

 

 

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Simplify Industrial Data Architecture at Scale

OT/IT and architecture leaders need to support a federated model—empowering product groups—without creating piecemeal projects and inconsistent site-by-site pipelines.

CONNECT provides a standardised approach for delivering trusted OT data into Databricks across sites, fleets and assets. It reduces repeated engineering effort and fragile point-to-point integrations, creating a reusable foundation that scales successful use cases without rebuilding the data pathway each time.

 

Fast:
Data updates from hours to minutes
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At EDP Renewables, CONNECT reduced data updates from 12 hours to 15 minutes, helping teams make faster operational and energy pricing decisions.

Optimised:
Better yield, efficiency and consistency
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At SQM, CONNECT supported predictive and optimisation models that improved nitrate yield by up to 1%, raw material efficiency by 1–3%, and process variability by 10–15%.

 

Efficient:
Lower engineering effort compute costs
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A major global mining company cut compute costs by up to 75% and reduced data engineering effort by more than 50% after replacing a custom transfer process with CONNECT.

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A Trusted Industrial Data Foundation for AI & Operations

CONNECT makes trusted industrial data available in Databricks while preserving the structure and meaning of OT and engineering context. Operations, engineering and data teams gain a shared foundation for faster decisions, repeatable analytics, and scalable AI—without bypassing the systems Rio Tinto already relies on.

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Accelerate AI and Analytics Value

 

CONNECT reduces integration effort and manual data preparation—making trusted industrial data readily available in Databricks so teams can deliver analytics, AI and business outcomes faster.

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Scale Standardized Industrial Data Across Rio Tinto

CONNECT provides a reusable, governed approach for delivering OT and engineering data into Databricks—enabling use cases to scale across product groups, sites, fleets and assets without rework.

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Explore CONNECT + Databricks in action

 

Real-world examples, customer stories, and resources for scaling industrial AI and analytics.

Accelerate Rio Tinto's AI and Operational Excellence Initiatives

Talk to a CONNECT expert today.
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Your AVEVA team is ready to discuss how CONNECT can help Rio Tinto reduce fragmentation, speed project-to-operations continuity, enable real-time energy and emissions insight, and unlock greater value from trusted operational data already flowing through AVEVA and PI System—so Databricks initiatives scale with clear, measurable outcomes.

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