The Mining & Metals Industries Division (MMID) is one of ISA Technical Divisions. Its goal is to support and advance its members who are working and/or interested in the mining and metal industries. MMID focuses on leveraging automation functionality and technology solution to enhance mining processes and metal production.

Who is best served by this division? Professionals concerned with economically and environmentally sound practices as related to the extraction of metal ores, coal, cement, sand, gravel, and other minerals-and the handling, separation, processing, fabrication, related processes, and research and development for the production of finished mineral or metal products. It also covers the Iron and Steel Making industry, Aluminum Processing and other light metals and the production and manufacturing of metals products.

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    RE: Cable sizing and Permissible voltage drop over ...

    By: Sagir Abdul Salam , 4 hours ago

    Hi all, Thanks for the inputs. Was going through available information on the topic over the past weeks. IEC 60354-5-52-11 Annex G is giving the acceptable voltage drops in cables, but with a special note for Extra Low Voltage (<50 VDC as per their definition) "NOTE ...

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    RE: Cable sizing and Permissible voltage drop over ...

    By: Bilal Munawar , 6 hours ago

    Hi Sagir, On projects, sizing calculation is not done for instrumentation cables. Usually, some standard sizes e.g. 1.0 mm2 or 1.5 mm2 are selected. One approach could be to calculate maximum length of instrumentation loop considering voltage drop along the cable and containing ...

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    As the economic environment is getting harsh, Government budget on Water Plant Instrumentation maintenance is getting tight right now. Our Instrumentation team now needs to do the Piping welding on maintenance purposes according to the Water Plant P & ID diagrams when necessary ...

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