Optimise your plant for maximum recovery, efficiency and reliability; without compromising safety or sustainability.
Underperforming circuits cost more than recovery, they erode trust and margins. Manual tweaks and inconsistent data make stability elusive. Process optimisation changes that. Through targeted tuning and operator upskilling, variability drops and efficiency rises. Predictable performance becomes the norm, not the exception.
Drive your operational performance metrics in the right direction
Our experienced and dedicated team can design, configure and advise you on how to optimise your assets so that you can achieve sustainable production improvements and generate more value.
Taking into consideration your specific challenges, we can effectively optimise your assets for sustained increased productivity, efficiency and reliability.
See how our approach delivered significant ROI improvements for these 4 customer sites.
Why work with us?
Technical expertise and operational experience across multiple sectors
Our team draws on deep technical expertise and extensive operational experience to solve the most complex of challenges and help you achieve operational excellence.
As a company, we have over 600 greenfield and brownfield projects under our belt. We have a track record of success and a reputation for delivering value to our clients.
We work across a range of sectors spanning both small and large cap operators and across various flowsheets and commodities.
This has given us exposure to leading practices and an extensive network, establishing us as a trusted advisor for our clients.
Fit-for-purpose, holistic solutions that deliver maximum ROI
Our team looks at the big picture.
Combining process and automation expertise, we examine the root cause of your challenge and identify production bottlenecks to devise actionable solutions.
We have global experience in various aspects of mining and metallurgy and can leverage the collective knowledge of Mipac’s instrumentation, control system and production system engineers to solve your operational challenges.
No matter the commodity, and regardless of which control system you use, we can help you unlock the latent value in your assets and processes to drive increased productivity, efficiency and reliability.
Services we offer
If you work in heavy industry and have complex processes, you could benefit from automation and control. Our team can design and deliver high-quality, proven solutions to help you remain productive, efficient and competitive.
Whether your aim is to improve performance, implement and tune advanced control strategies or achieve leading practice; Mipac goes beyond the solution.
We work both onsite and remotely. We also prioritise developing the capabilities of your personnel to enable sustainable long-term improvements based on our recommendations.
Our solutions:
Focus on providing maximum return on investment
Ensure maximum utilisation of your existing infrastructure
Employ proven technology
Apply relevant layers of the automation pyramid to create value
Are driven by real-world experience
What we can help with
Are you facing any of these common challenges? If so, we can help!
- Unstable processes
- Automation sitting idle while the plant is run in manual
- Constrained assets and production
- Unreliable equipment hampering utilisation
- Inability to properly track progress on KPIs
- Instrument issues
- Mass balance issues
- Sampling issues
- Inaccurate recovery model
We can help by:
- Designing and deploying enhanced process control strategies
- Co-creating and co-developing modernisation roadmaps
- Conducting control loop tuning and making configuration changes
- Conducting metallurgical accounting audits and process information reviews
Our approach
We listen first, working with you to identify constraints across your entire value chain and co-create sustainable, fit-for-purpose solutions that align to your ambitions, budget and timeline.
Thanks to the breadth and depth of our real-world experience, we have likely stood in your shoes before, so we understand your challenges.
We’re also experienced in both processing and automation, so we can help you see – and address – the bigger picture.
In everything we do, we seek to partner with you, knowing that you know your asset best and any solutions we design need to be right for you and your team.
Our approach is to:
- Review your processes
- Highlight opportunities
- Provide guidance and an actionable roadmap for how to implement our recommended solutions
Our custom process control improvements can help heavy industry operations, like mining, unlock their full potential! In this article you’ll see how we combined an innovative approach with proven results, we make sure our clients get the most out of their business.
See the results at these four mining operations.
Did you know?
What is process optimisation in mineral processing?
Why is process optimisation important for mineral processing plants?
What are the main challenges in process optimisation?
What KPIs measure process optimisation success?
What are quick wins for process optimisation in mineral processing?
How long does it take to see results from process optimisation?
Book a discovery call with one of our Optimisation experts today to discuss your specific needs.
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