Mining
Find The Hidden Work Between Mining Operations
Mining performance depends on the coordination of people, equipment, materials, maintenance and supporting services. When plans change or information doesn’t reach the right team, employees spend time resolving exceptions and keeping operations moving.
XeP3 helps mining organisations identify and measure this hidden operational Noise, understand its causes and prioritise process improvements while maintaining essential safety, environmental and regulatory requirements.
Operational Coordination
Look Beyond Individual Activities And Assets
Planning, procurement, maintenance, workforce coordination, production support and logistics are closely connected.
A delay in one area can trigger rescheduling, repeated approvals, additional checks and administrative work elsewhere. XeP3 maps the end-to-end process to help leaders understand the wider consequences rather than treating each disruption in isolation.
Frontline Insight
Understand The Work Required To Keep Operations Running
Supervisors, planners, maintenance coordinators and support employees often know which process problems keep returning.
XeP3 captures their experience and quantifies the additional effort involved, helping distinguish necessary safety and operational controls from avoidable duplication and rework.
Mining In Practice
Where Capacity Is Lost Across Site Operations
Across 268+ projects in 17 industries in the University of Melbourne research, a median of 36.1% of staff effort was lost to Noise. In mining, Noise often builds up across site operations and support functions – where maintenance, planning and supply teams work from different information, where permits and safety documentation are handled by hand and where delays in one area ripple through the rest of the operation.
Working with Bevington Partners, mining organisations use XeP3 to capture how work actually happens across sites and functions, identify what drives their Noise and eliminate it at its source – recovering capacity for safer and more productive operations.
- 36.1% Median Noise across 268+ projects in 17 industries (University of Melbourne research)
Measurement
Measure Coordination, Rework And Capacity
Flow
Track planning delays and process handoffs.
Rework
Quantify repeated scheduling, corrections and administrative exceptions.
Capacity
Measure staff effort available for higher-value operational support.
Results And Insights
Explore Operational Improvement Across Complex Environments
Make The Work Around Mining Operations More Effective