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Industrial, Manufacturing, Mining, Facilities Maintenance Management

Sep 30, 2013
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With more than 23 years of innovation, COGEP is the recognized expert in several sectors including manufacturing, heavy industry, agri-food / food and beverage, mining, health, and building inventory and infrastructure management. 


Mines/Natural Resources and Heavy Industry
 
• Mining
• Smelting Works
• Petrochemicals
• Sawmills
• Pulp and Paper

COGEP has been operating in this sector for the past 14 years and continues to fill the needs simply and efficiently of a vast number of mining and heavy industry companies.
 
Whether your company has operations in the mining, wood, metal or oil industries, it faces many challenges.
 
Your operations are typically located far from centers where your suppliers are located. Procurement of inventory and equipment parts poses a twofold challenge: finding ways to shorten delivery periods and reduce related transportation costs. You need software that ensures effective, simple communication that starts from the worker’s order and extends to final delivery of the item. The people involved are kept informed throughout the entire process via alerts in real time. This results in shorter waiting times for approvals and maximizes the availability of critical production equipment.
 
Human resources are another imposing challenge. A computerized system such as Guide Ti, however, enables the organization to record it’s workers’ knowledge so it can be retrieved and used later by the organization and, in particular, those workers who do not already have that knowledge. In addition, management of a large workforce and complex work schedules complicate information transfer and follow-up of actions taken.
 
With Guide Ti, information is transmitted instantly and always with great precision between shifts because everything is entered and tracked in the software.
 
Another challenge is obtaining the lowest cost by avoiding from market price fluctuations. A mine or production center must compete against itself: it has no influence over the selling price only over its production costs.
 
Guide Ti was developed such that finance, maintenance and procurement directors can exchange information and make insightful decisions that increase the efficiency and availability of a company’s machines thereby making the mine or any other type of natural resource company profitable. Preventive maintenance is critical to the efficiency of a natural-resource-based or heavy industry company given the strategic importance of the assets in place. Management of strategic assets such as machinery is a challenge. When production comes to a halt because your equipment is unavailable due to a broken part, this has a negative impact on your production cost. In a simple, efficient manner, Guide Ti enables you to monitor the recommended preventive maintenance, planned corrective actions, and emergencies. This capability allows you to maximize the availability of the strategic assets in your production chain, your facilities and your fleet.
 
Guide Ti provides tracking and analytic tools you can use to prove to regulatory bodies that your operations conform to compulsory standards. You can also track in real time maintenance that is being carried out or is planned for your mechanical, ventilation and fire protection systems to ensure the security of your employees.
 
The remoteness of your operations might present unique challenges with regard to technology and computer systems. Guide Ti is a remarkably light application that runs on your server, your internal network and on the Internet, which enables you to benefit fully from all the software’s features even if your technology is not highly advanced.
 
Some of our valued clients in your industry:
• Osisko
• Detour Gold
• Thompson Consolidated
• Semafo
• Aurizon
• Richmont
• Breakwater Ressources
• Polaris
• Promobois GDS
• Arbec Forest Products
• Coastal petrochimie
• Cambior

Implementations
• Coastal petrochimie
• Uniforêt

Benefits:
• Shorter delivery periods and reduced transportation costs for the procurement of inventory and equipment parts.
• Stored knowledge provided by a computerized system.
• In a simple, efficient manner, Guide Ti enables you to monitor the recommended preventive maintenance, planned corrective actions, and emergencies. This capability allows you to maximize the availability of the strategic assets in your production chain, your facilities and your fleet.
• Better access to critical information in real time (e.g. costs related to workers, equipment, projects and departments) enables you to react more quickly.
• Major reduction in costly expenses and costs that result from equipment breakdowns.
• Substantial improvements regarding tracking of equipment guarantees, which results in reduced maintenance costs.
• Improvements to historical data of assets (e.g. costs, service life).
• Improved tracking enables companies to conform to standards and thereby keep their accreditations.
• New assets can be added (vehicles, buildings, equipment) without increasing the size of the maintenance team.
• Increase in equipment reliability.
• Increased capacity of the inventory management team without an increase in its budget.
• The right parts are in inventory at the right moment.
• Higher ROI because the service life of assets in longer.

Source: http://www.cogep.com/content/markets/mines-natural-resources-industry