Safety is a high priority, but now skill shortages and aggressive demand from China and India are putting Australia’s natural resources companies under pressure. Having previously taken capability out of their processes to keep costs down, many are experiencing supply chain bottlenecks. At the same time, skills shortages and the cost of infrastructure at remote sites are threatening to restrict production.
CSC works with some of Australia’s largest natural resources companies, creating automated solutions, remote monitoring, knowledge management and expert systems to help solve these issues.
We help our clients to develop industrial strength applications, information and infrastructure. From complex and fragmented systems, we create common environments that deliver detailed, accurate and timely information. We also offer mine IT planning and develop automated systems from drill hole to ship hold, including blending, stockpile control and despatch. Asset tracking feeds information into these systems, enabling real-time information and remote operations management.
We can also code organisational knowledge into electronic processes, keeping IP in the business and developing ‘smart’ applications that can analyse situations. These analytical capabilities, combined with remotely monitored operations, create expert systems that can identify opportunities to increase production and optimise supply chain.
Ultimately, we can design and build remote operation centres that allow many mine processes to be operated by people in regional centres. This substantially reduces remote site numbers, solving both safety and skills issues and taking the pressure off remote housing requirements.
Drawing from our skills base that includes mining industry veterans, with ex-miners, metallurgists, geologists, you can be sure of a multi-disciplinary team who understand the unique pressures of your industry.
Services • Mine IT planning • End-to-end plan and execute • Logistics • Asset/mobile equipment tracking • Technical data management • Remote communications • Information management
Natural Resources Center of Excellence CSC’s global Natural Resouces Center of Excellence is based in Australia. The Center fosters innovation by generating new ideas and examining other industries to adapt existing ideas to the natural resources industry.
