4 Valuable Points of Operational Excellence

Mining

Mining services are committed to provide a high quality of operational excellence

through their project analysis and by listening to your needs and ideas by providing a

fruitful feedback with practical solutions. These mining services deliver to boost the

productivity of the mine sites.

Operational excellence is defined as a state where efforts of the entire organisation

complied to gain a desired outcome for the investors and assisted by the corporate

culture which is unified for its improvement.

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Operational excellence is multi dimensional and has an impact on all the aspects of

an organisation. Many companies take it lightly and thus fail to achieve the desired

results. It is not a thing to be taken lightly. They do not take into consideration all the

key aspects and even if they do they fail to ensure that they are addressed in an

integrated and cohesive manner.

By addressing these four pillars mining services can improve their operational

excellence.

1.Business:

The business forms the foundation of the strategy and has a great in deriving the

overall results. You have to identify that operational excellence can be at times

troublesome and can impact the culture of the organisation, its processes, the

behavioural norms and procedures and operational philosophies. Therefore,

operational excellence strategies require complete support, commitment and

leadership not only from the management but also the investors.

2.People:

People within the organisation are deemed to be the heart and soul of operational

excellence strategy. They play a crucial role in making it successful. This is a very

challenging task due to the disruptive nature of the organisation changes, which

requires the employees to acquire new skills, modify their behaviour or even play

completely different roles. Thus, operational excellence strategy emphasises

greatly on change management where employees are supported throughout the

process.

3.Assets:

Let’s look into the engine of mining operations- the physical assets. The assets must

perform to the maximum possible productivity. This productivity of the engine

means not just a single component but many different parts that should work

together efficiently. You can effectively power the vehicle only if everything is

working smoothly. Similarly, the assets help in the overall operation. You must ensure

that every asset operates at it maximum efficiency on its own and contributes in

optimising the overall performance of the whole process.

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4.Technology:

Lastly, we must take into consideration the technology that manages the operational

excellence as it plays a major role over all other aspects i.e. business, people and

assets of operational excellence. The technology required can vary substantially for

each of them.

For business technology it includes social media enabling the management to

communicate their strategies to their staff in the wide organisation.

For people, it includes business process systems, training simulators or giving them

awareness of mining processes.

For assets, it ensures that they operate properly by reducing the time, ensuring

advance process control systems and enhancing asset management.

No matter what technology is required, it has to be integrated within the

organisation and contribute to the overall objectives of the business.

Conclusion:

The operation excellence can be achieved with a multi dimensional and adaptive

strategy that must be inculcated in the DNA of the whole organisation.