Plinian Capital

What we use InPhase for is actually mapping the value chain, how we get our product through the stages of mining, and out to the customer.

This is quite a change in orientation in the mine in which we are developing this, ranging from the start where everyone was looking at their own silo, and what we are looking at now is how the cross functional groups collaborate to produce the results that we want.

The benefits right now are that we can see in a way we couldn’t before what’s not working, and unfortunately that is a pretty long list, but there are things like for example, development metres underground in the mine, looks like we are sort of on track as a whole, but what you do when you drill down through the value chain is find out that, actually the key development metres that will support future production are getting short changed, as opposed to the core development metres, which they are forced to focus on because they need tons of four a day.

So, they are sacrificing future developed state of the mine for today’s production, and that’s visible now instantly.

It took a while for the first decision to be made on that, but as I speak this, we are changing people, we are putting in standard operating procedures, and starting to measure leading in indicators like rework. We are starting to really get at, how do we fix the right activities in the right place in the mine, to make the most difference.