Why is operational excellence in mining a challenge?
Volume targets notoriously drive mining; consequently, this can present ongoing challenges to operational effectiveness. A Lean Operating System focuses on reducing waste incurred from over-production. This is because dependence on over-production introduces risks to the plan; while it may reach targets, it can yield:
- Increase safety incidences and property damage,
- Deviation from spatial compliance,
- Compromise product quality,
- Higher contractor costs,
- Poor coordination of sequential and parallel processes,
- Maintenance backlogs,
- Lower reliability
- Reduced availability
- Diminished Life of Mine
- Lower investor confidence
Any of the above will impact performance. Fortunately, GENEO can help by focusing on process design to reduce waste and empower your teams to engage in Continuous Improvement. Leading organizations have realized the benefits of adopting a Lean Operating System resulting in greater quality, lower costs, higher compliance to plan, better engagement from the workforce to contribute improvement insights, and drive out waste. Indeed, we can show your leadership how to build, sustain and grow a Lean organization. We have experience at all scales, including:
- Enterprise
- Mine site
- Mining execution,
- Maintenance,
- Engineering,
- Supply, and
- Human Resource
Software Tools
Standard Work Instruction
GENEO gas several Lean software tools available to improve operational excellence. Standard work instructions pose an ongoing challenge for many businesses. So, we developed GEN-OPS1. It is an intuitive and effective cloud-based solution designed to simplify standards management. Your standards must stay up-to-date to be relevant, but they won't do it without regular review and editing. GEN-OPS1 makes it easier and faster to produce and manage great standards, including:
- standardized work instruction,
- standard operating procedures,
- code of practice,
- etc.,
Critical Path Planning and Short Interval Control
Mining companies tend to look to ERP / CMMS for process control; consequently, optimization is hard to address. So we developed TEMPO to deliver critical path maintenance planning and short interval control. You can have operational excellence delivered by every technician in your maintenance bay and sustain it. TEMPO is a valuable addition to maintenance leaders seeking to:
- Minimizing maintenance turnaround times,
- Reducing backlogs
- Raising asset availability, and
- Driving up continuous improvement
Continuous Improvement
Continuous improvement is an important part of operational excellence for any business, therefore, GENEO developed GEN-iGO. This platform leverages mobile technology to deliver rapid access to your Lean Operating System. GEN-iGO provides users a convenient and intuitive way to:
- Raise, track and measure concerns,
- Record and share continuous improvement insights,
- Access top-down visibility continuous improvement in all teams, and
- Sustain your Lean Operating System
GENEO's lean software tools are an excellent addition to any mining company's effort to achieve and maintain operational excellence, so contact us for a free consultation and a demo.