Natural Resource & Energy
With a background across a broad array of transportation industries, our consulting staff offer dedicated business advisory services, information analytics, systems integration and solution delivery to our natural resource and energy sector clients.
Maximizing efficiencies for complex assets
The natural resource and energy industries share several common characteristics with both the aviation and marine sectors: widespread use of complex, capital-intensive assets. For the overall operation to function effectively, these assets – whether they are trucks, loaders or extractors – must be managed and directed as efficiently as possible.
Maintenance management reaps rewards
In a project that paid off handsomely for our client, the AeroInfo project team helped one of the world’s leading producers of base metals increase its extraction capacity and address a chronic fleet reliability issue in their Chilean mine.
Business process redesign delivers reliability
Plagued by a high degree of shutdowns by their trucks, our work with this large international mining firm started with a business analysis of their maintenance operations. Using a process known as the Functional Analysis System Technique (FAST), the AeroInfo project team isolated the root cause of the company’s reliability issue: Oil leaks, coolant leaks and transmission leaks.
But the analysis didn’t stop there. With further investigation they were able to locate the problem in the supply chain, as the quality and standard of replacement hoses being used was not adequate.
Increased reliability speaks for itself
Several months after acting on the analysis and recommendations:
- the mining company’s trucks were being serviced according to a rigorous new schedule
- the chronic breakdown problems had decreased dramatically
- the company’s overall operation was running smoother at higher production capacity.
For more information on our natural resource and energy sector clients or case studies, go to the Success Stories section of our site.