Checklist: Is Your Longwall Mine Leaving Millions Of Dollars On The Table?
Health Check
If you experience 3 or more of the following issues, your site likely has substantial hidden capacity and unrealised profit that can be unlocked within 3-5 months — without capex, disruption, or extra headcount.
🔍 Common Symptoms in Longwall Operations
☐ Frequent production misses due to unexpected issues
☐ Moving bottlenecks — development one week, the panel the next
☐ Development teams routinely miss budgeted advance targets
☐ Superintendents struggle to delegate and maintain flow
☐ Plans are reworked mid-week — frontline teams don’t “own” the plan
☐ Constant firefi ghting and priority shifts frustrate employees
⚠️ What’s Really Going On
Over the last 15 years, longwall technology has dramatically improved — but this has often shifted the bottleneck into development or the CHPP, it is no longer the bottleneck.
Since development consumes most mining resources and creates future float, it’s under pressure to deliver short-term gains — often at the expense of long-term continuity.
When float runs out, or the CHPP stops, the longwall has to slow or stop. The financial impact can be enormous.
These short-term pressures lead to:
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Resource allocation conflicts
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Siloed decision-making
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Erosion of trust and accountability
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Managers overwhelmed by competing priorities
Even exceptional leaders can find it diffi cult to deliver reliable outcomes in this environment.
What to do?
💡 The Flow Room Solution
Stratflow’s Flow Room is a next-generation productivity platform that delivers sustained production increases and system-wide stability.
What You Gain:
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Significant gains in production and profitability
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Predictable, stable operations
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Improved safety outcomes
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Better decisions that balance short- and long-term needs
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Engaged, aligned teams
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Management freed to focus on strategic challenges
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We solve the silo problem by helping your team focus on leverage points — areas where small, systemic changes deliver maximum impact with minimal eff ort.
Unlike traditional consultants who focus on either culture or operations, we do both. We act as trusted advisors in human systems and mining processes.
📈 Results That Speak for Themselves
Stratflow has helped longwall operations from Glencore, Anglo American, and Simec achieve:
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20% average increase in production
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Projects completed in just 5–6 months
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Only 36 days of consulting time required
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90+ successful implementations
What Clients Say:
“Surprisingly simple improvements made at negligible cost boosted production from 14,500 to 18,000 tons per day.” — Mining Manager, Board and Pillar
"We unlocked 33% hidden capacity simply by aligning the parts of the business." — General Manager, Longwall
🎯 Ready to Uncover Your Mine’s Hidden Capacity?
We offer a Confidential Longwall Production Health Check
✔ No sales pitch
✔ No disruption
✔ Actionable insights within days
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