Lean Management

Lean Thinking for Mining and Exploration

 **solitech-mining.com

Our 'lean thinking' approach strives to improve the process for maximum efficiency and minimal waste. In service delivery, lean communication implies visual communication to maximise and elicit knowledge transfer and minimise documentation effort. Growing understanding is a process of adding detail and nuance branches to the body of knowledge. 

 

Lean Operations

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Lean mining has some very different drivers based on the Lean principles. Waste in mining is about time, capacity and mineral resources. Efficiency is increased when the mine production flow is optimised for mineral resource recovery. A good starting point is integrity in geology from rock face to stockpile, from stockpile to concentrate, and from concentrate to cash reconciliation.

 

Our modular mining template MS4Mine offers a quick-win solution in lean transformation. We believe Mines and Minerals Processors find value in: 

• A common-sense visual approach to identify hidden opportunities
• Improved cooperation between departments to optimise performance
• Processes and clear measures
• Strategies for removing barriers to change, sustaining improvements.

 

 

 

Lean Management, Software and IT

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As with lean mining, our software approach is based on lean principles and practices. We like to be recognised for delivering the most sustainable interventions to your team at the lowest cost - simply put, the best ROI based on extremely flexible and powerful software. Experience and best practices are prepackaged to reduce consullting time and speed up delivery.

Experience highlighted the cost and limitations of bespoke integration and extensive use of spreadsheets in key departments such as laboratories, metals accounting, costing and maintenance. Spreadsheets are extensively used for managing production and support operations, resulting in the silos of information and thinking. Frustrated management and concerned auditors expect improvements, but little choice is available with regards to well-integrated operational software. Instead reconciliation software or data warehouses have emerged as the solution to these non-integrated key elements of information.