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Productivity in mining is won at the constraint.

Optionise works on mining value chains: where variance is created, where it is absorbed, and where throughput is actually set.

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What the work is


Find the constraint

Value chain modelling and throughput accounting that show where site output is actually set, and what an hour there is worth.


Design the system

Operating model, decision rights and data architecture, so variance is detected, routed and absorbed rather than argued about.


Stabilise the front line

Operating discipline that takes variation out of the constraint, owned by the people running the plant, not by a report.

Who you are dealing with

Brett Cuthbert

Mining engineer with about three decades in the industry. Most recently Head of Value Chain and Systems in Rio Tinto's Group Technical function, and before that senior operating roles at Newcrest.

How engagements usually start

A short, fixed-scope diagnostic: where the constraint sits, what variance is costing, and what to do in the first wave. Weeks, not months, and the findings belong to your team.