🔍 Performance Friction — What You Might Be Seeing

☐ Operations struggle to hit production or financial targets consistently.

☐ Despite efficiency initiatives, production remains volatile and frequently falls short of plan or budget.

☐ Bottlenecks keep shifting — one week it’s drilling, the next it’s haulage or the plant.

☐ Teams are firefi ghting daily, priorities change constantly, and there's no clear, stable plan.

☐ The weekly mine plan is often obsolete within days — requiring constant rework.

☐ Tension between planning and operations is rising — frontline teams don’t truly “own” the plan.

☐ Accountability is harder to enforce; trust and cooperation are slipping across departments.

☐ Managers are stretched thin — more meetings, more reports, but less control over actual flow.

☐ Fixes don’t stick — gains fade, and new problems keep emerging.

⚠️ If You Ticked 3 or More…

You’re not alone — but you are leaving output and profit on the table.
The root cause? Most mines still operate in silos, with each department pushed to maximise its own effi ciency. But in complex systems like mining:
Maximising parts ≠ maximising the system.
The result: unstable flow, unpredictable performance, and management overload.