Maximise and maintain
returns on production assets
Operations are interactive systems comprising 3 basic elements assets, activities and resources that interact to create value.
For any given set of conditions there is an ideal configuration of these three that will result in the maximum achievement of your intended operational objective, what ever that may be - lowest unit cost, highest volume, quickest return, or a range of equally desirable objectives.
Because operations are a science this ideal (or optimal) configuration of assets, activities and resources can be objectively derived and scientifically proven.
With BSC Productivity Science, you’ll know precisely what the maximum achievable performance of your operations are, why you might not be achieving that protentional, what you need to do to attain full potential ….as well as how to continually adjust course to sustain it.
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Applying Science to discover your formula for maximum performance, under any given conditions.
And then ensure that you always achieve it, regardless of changing circumstances.
ROI is determined by operational metrics such as throughput, availability utilisation, efficiency.
These are in turn determined by how assets are configured, activities scheduled, and resources allocated. It’s a complex and a dynamic formula, but it’s not mere theory, it’s very real…and it can be proved.
BSC Productivity Science reveals your productivity dynamics, explains why they dip and spike, and prescribes ways of maximising operational performance.
Science underpins all operations. Capacity, speed, utilization and similar measurable variables determine operational performance. By modelling your operation in high fidelity we prove how great you could be, and then tell you how to achieve it.
The formula for max performance isn’t static - underlying variables change. Our live models and simulations continually update your performance formulas, and hence your production plans.
For consistent performance, certain factors need to stay aligned. Knowing how is one thing. Actually doing it is another. With actionable playbook guidance, we’ll help keep performance consistent despite the variables.
Operational diagnostics
In just 4 weeks, BSC developed a Digital Twin of the client’s pit-to-port workforce bus network to simulate and identify the optimal bus fleet for meeting workforce expectations and reducing idle time spent waiting at stops.
Advanced analytics can improve operational efficiency?
Using Value Driver Trees (VDTs) and causal analytics, we’ll identify key hard-to-spot constraints and inefficiencies.
BSC Ops Diagnostics analyzes your data, delivering actionable insights for the best possible decision making. Optimize performance, eliminate waste, and streamline processes.
By building your ‘digital twin’ predictive model, we’ll bring problem costs to the surface and simulate practical ways of managing them to free up revenue.
Strategic Studies
The complex and dynamic interplay between thousands of operational variables can be accurately reflected in a model. A model that will change the way you understand your operations resulting in better performance
BSC Validation Study revolutionizes your planning process for maximum efficiency with precise value stream simulations, advanced analysis, and future-testing capabilities
By mapping cause-and-effect in inverwoven operational variables, you’ll make more lucid evaluations of all the logistical combinations we’ll uncover.
By identifying specific performance gaps with proposed truck design, we could isolate surge loading as the most promising supporting initiative for maximizing production and minimizing costs.
The simulation indicated that improvement gained from surge loading was greater than the sum of its parts – and traditional equation-based models missed this key insight.
Adaptive Planning
‘Digital Twin’ implementation was supported by a robust change management plan, resulting in consistent, daly use since 2020.
With stoppages every 1.4 days, and 30% loss in potential throughput, the average value uplift was around 4.8%, in produced ounces of gold. As high as 29% in some cases.
A live digital twin will enable operational agility, which in turn will increase operational performance and economic returns
We can help augment the skills and abilities of your front-line operators, ensuring they’re equipped to deliver optimally, even in the most challenging situations.
With our Execution Support, all your teams will receive timely insights and guidance on the ‘next- best’ plan when faced with short-term disruptions.
Browse full customer stories
Albemarle
With presence in over 100 countries, Albemarle is a major enabler of lithium-reliant technologies that touch countless facets of people’s lives and entire economies. On engaging BSC Global, Albemale needed to pre-optimize throughput of resources that would flow within a newly planned Lithium Hydroxide processing plant in Kemerton, Western Australia.
IG Partners
IG Partners is a Canadian-based gold producer with a core competency in extracting high-grade underground ore. BSC’s Productivity Science Unit was challenged to map out and discover novel strategic solutions to expand IG Partners’ largest mining operation while navigating the complex list of required cost-efficiencies.
New ideas and improved performance grows out of answers to questions like…
Let’s start there - then we’ll discuss the possibilities.
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Why BSC?
What goes up, doesn’t necessarily always have to come down, Maintaining peak performance requires operational agility informed by precise knowledge
