Technology Performance Services
Strategic Technology Roadmap Development
OPAL team offers crafting a tailored roadmap for technology development to prioritize innovations that drive efficiency, growth, and competitive advantage in your mining operations. We help companies in identifying key technology levers for transformation of the business’s long –term profitability.
Operational Productivity Enhancements
We support businesses in identification of quick win business improvement opportunities that can be operationalized within a short time frame. Our team helps in boosting productivity through targeted improvements that streamline processes, reduce costs, and maximize operational efficiency.
Regional Asset Strategy Optimization
Out team can perform a High-level evaluation of the value-realization potential for an entire ore body/mine in a region, taking into account reserves and resources, different mineral characterizations, and processing options for the ore body. This includes exploring synergies with nearby mining companies. We help businesses in maximizing the value and performance of their mining assets by optimizing strategies tailored to specific regional opportunities and challenges.
Operational Excellence Practices Review
Evaluation of the ‘ways of working’ in key technical domains, from mining, maintenance, and processing to identify limiting habits and opportunities for improvement of workflows. OPAL conducts a comprehensive review of your operational practices to identify and implement improvements that drive excellence and sustainable results. Establish compliance to the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle of process excellence.
Technical Due Diligence for Mergers & Acquisitions
Our team has expertise in providing in-depth technical assessments during mergers and acquisitions to uncover opportunities and mitigate risks, ensuring informed decision-making. We help in Identifying potential risks and opportunities that could affect perceived value of an M&A target that a company is currently pursuing.
Metal Recovery Optimization Support
We offer specialized support to identify and eliminate bottlenecks in metal recovery processes, ensuring maximum yield and operational efficiency. We perform analysis of processing plant bottlenecks and recommendation of medium- and long-term options to improve recovery.
People and Culture Services
Organizational Effectiveness Review
Our team can assess the effectiveness of organizational designs, people authorities, accountabilities, key people systems, and leadership routines and align it with the best practices.
Workplace Safety Culture Review
Our team can assist in reviewing the company’s culture in relation to safety, to establish cultural constraints and opportunities for creating a safer workplace.
Supervisory Management Effectiveness
Evaluate challenges and opportunities related to on-the-ground delivery of work, through the lens of effectiveness of front-line management.
Strategic Workforce Plan Evaluation & Adjustment
OPAL can perform gap analysis between mining plans, workforce size and workforce skills required to execute current and future plan, over a strategic-plan cycle (including technology changes). Illustrate gaps and recommend ways to close the gaps in a Saudi context (buy, build, borrow, etc.).
Workforce Training Effectiveness Review & Improvement
OPAL can conduct review of the workforce training approach and recommend improvements to make it effective and aligned with organizational goals, local regulations, personal development needs, and the future of work.
Digital Skills Development Strategy
OPAL can Develop a strategy and tactics recommendation on how your organization can rapidly develop critical digital skills for the whole workforce.
Cost Performance Service
Enterprise Cost Reduction
OPAL assist companies in Identification of opportunities for reduction of operating and capital costs to protect or enhance profit margins without compromising key technical capabilities
Proactive Thought Leadership Services
Future of Work (FoW) Policy Development
OPAL can provide policy recommendations and guidance on how organization can best prepare itself to be an effective partner with the workforce, communities, and host governments in the face of the emerging future of work (e.g. digitization, job creation mandates, sustainability imperatives, geopolitical climate).
“Hot Topic” Industry Research Service
Our team has expertise in conducting industry research on a theme or topic that is of interest to a client.