Vedanta Aluminium Wins ‘Most Innovative Best Practice’ Award

By Tricitynews

Chandigarh Jan. 09, 2021:- India’s largest producer of Aluminium and value-added products, Vedanta has bagged the ‘Most Innovative Best Practice’ Award at the Digital Transformation (DX) Summit & Awards 2020.

Organized by CII – Centre for Digital Transformation (CDT), the DX Award provides a prestigious platform for the industry’s best to showcase superlative efforts and achievements in the realm of digital transformation, offering unparalleled exposure and valuable recognition to the practitioners.

Vedanta Aluminium has bagged this coveted award in the 'Most Innovative Best Practice' category, as India’s first and the world’s third–smelter to deploy the Digital Smelter Technology at its Jharsuguda plant, which is the world’s largest single-location aluminium smelter.

Themed on leveraging digital infrastructure & technological innovation for a resurgent and Aatmanirbhar Bharat, the DX summit witnessed participation from over 300 companies. Vedanta Aluminium outshone the competition by showcasing its Digital Smelter project which is being deployed at its Aluminium smelter in Jharsuguda, Odisha. It uses digital twin technology with predictive & prescriptive analytics, which allows for remote monitoring and control of potline operations, enhances energy efficiency, and reduces raw material consumption and arrests wastage of material through remote advisory system.

Ajay Kapur, CEO–Aluminium & Power Business, Vedanta Ltd., said that we strive to make our operations future-ready by integrating best-in-class digital solutions, building in efficiencies, and optimizing costs and raw material consumption in our quest to become the world's leading producer of the ‘green metal’ or Aluminium.