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MINING CONSULTANTS optimisation methodology developed by AMC Consultants – which AFRY recently acquired – that uses evolutionary algorithms to evaluate millions of possible strategic combinations across variables such as mine designs, production schedules, processing capacities and grade cutoffs.
The HoV platform allows clients to“ understand the tradeoffs between competing objectives such as value, risk, capital intensity and production profile”, Derek du Preez, VP and Head of Mining & Metals APAC and RSA at AFRY, told IM.“ This dramatically increases the productivity of consulting teams by automating what would otherwise require thousands of manual iterations while enabling consultants to focus on interpreting strategic outcomes and advising clients.”
He explained the interaction between the platform and AFRY’ s consultants, and how the two are integrated to achieve optimal outcomes:“ The software performs the computational search across millions of strategic alternatives, while experienced mining consultants define the optimisation framework, constraints and business objectives and interpret the resulting solution space.”
Rather than replacing engineering judgement, the technology“ amplifies it” by allowing experts to evaluate opportunities that would previously have been
AFRY’ s multi-disciplinary engineering capability, combined with its technology initiatives, are positioning it to deliver a new generation of intelligent, data-driven consulting services that extend well beyond traditional mining advisory work, according to Derek du Preez
computationally impossible, according to du Preez.“ This combination enables relatively small consulting teams to solve highly complex strategic planning problems more efficiently and consistently,” he said.
The integrated thinking goes beyond HoV at AFRY.
The company’ s advanced analytics combine mining domain expertise with modern data science techniques, where engineers and operational specialists define the business questions, as statistical
modelling, machine learning and data visualisation technologies interrogate large datasets to identify trends and relationships.
“ The technology accelerates the discovery of insights, but it is the mining expertise that determines which findings are operationally meaningful and how improvement strategies should be implemented,” du Preez said.“ This integrated approach allows AFRY to deliver deeper analysis without proportionally increasing consulting effort.”
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