Improving Productivity in Mineral Processing

Just attended a thought provoking workshop, led by the extremely knowledgeable Gordon Dick.

I wont attempt to regurgitate its content (hopefully Gordon will run something similar for us in the near future) but here are some of my take-aways from the session:

• You cannot improve unless you measure. (As Peter Drucker observed).
• The source of raw data needs to be reliable, repeatable and trustworthy.
• Repeatability can be as useful as absolute accuracy, particularly where you are looking for trends.
• The granularity (really appropriate description for the industry!) of the data become important when you are looking for small incremental gains.
• Big Data cause big data management issues!
• Disparate sources of data need to be consolidated.
• Ideally, the data need to be (automatically!) processed into actionable insights about the operation, to unlock its real value.
• Real-time reporting, allows for timely intervention.

​Looking forward to the next chapter Gordon!

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