Challenge
Our client had recently embarked on a journey to improve productivity and output to take advantage of a buoyant bauxite price but did not have a action plan in place to make it happen
ImpRes were engaged to perform a rapid improvement diagnostic and come up with a clear action plan to debottleneck multiple operations with a mandate of “little to zero” capital
Solution
Tailored a debottlenecking methodology and delivered
Dynamic constraint analysis tools
Analysed and interpreted downtime data
Analysed key drivers of yield and rate variability
Analysed the operating strategy and value chain trade-offs
Tuned, syndicated and adjusted models
Developed a data driven debottlenecking action plan that accounted for ore body, equipment and tailings deposition variability
Results
- Detailed action plan to lift output by 20% with little to zero capital
- Passed on skills to ensure in-house competency to undertake similar analysis
