Fischer Consulting has helped mining companies create bottom line, sustainable benefits by providing process optimisation and change management programs tailored to their specific requirements. There are no standard “off the shelf” solutions, Fischer Consulting analyses each unique situation and develops a custom approach to address the challenges and obstacles preventing a business from achieving its goals.

We believe that organizational development, behavioral change and coaching are key points to delivering improvements and to ensuring sustainability of benefits. Fischer Consulting’s approach is to transfer the necessary skills and continuous improvement methodologies to the client’s staff with the goal of creating sustainable value in the client’s business.

Fischer Consulting’s expertise covers the entire mining production cycle and back-office administration, inclusive of areas such as:

• Throughput Increase – more effective planning, process enhancements, asset availability and utilization optimisation, cycle time reduction, de-bottlenecking, improved operator practices, effective supervisory skills, improved maintenance practices and management systems, road and tire management, logistics, improved predictability and reliability
• Productivity Improvements – producing the same output with less input or producing more output with the same inputs; planning, reducing downtime, supply chain optimisation, skills training, management systems
• Safety – behavioural changes for significant reductions in recordable and lost time incidents; our work practices and methodologies are designed to reinforce or improve existing safety standards
• Cost Reduction – all areas including labour, spares, materials, fuel, energy, administration, procurement
• Contractors – cost reduction through more effective planning, contract management practices and process efficiencies
• Cash Generation – operationalizing working capital, accounts payable, accounts receivable, inventories, vendor contract management
• CapEx Management – both CapEx reduction and program management to ensure on time within budget results, cycle time reduction and cost reduction/management