Optimised business solutions through Philosophy, Practice & Performance.
In today's competitive market, operations are required to maximise their efficiency and derive greater value from all assets. Agility and flexibility are essential to respond to the market demand. OP3 Consulting specialises in the delivery of platforms for transforming operations through automation and control optimisation.
Philosophy
Maximising profitability requires a clear understanding of a project’s operation goals, its values, and its priorities throughout the entirety of the operation life cycle. A control philosophy that drives a value-oriented approach with a clear prioritisation trade-off is essential for successful and effective innovation that maximises asset productivity.
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The control strategy needs to be aware of the operation conditions. Under abnormal conditions (e.g. after large disturbance, during startup, etc.), the normal control objectives may not be achievable, and continuing to pursue this normal objective can often prove to be detrimental. A better strategy is to change the objectives to minimise the impact propagation of disturbance downstream and maintain a state to facilitate faster recovery.
The ‘Whole of Life’ approach that integrates multi-facets of operation activities starts from planning, actual production, and maintenance activities. Removing the silos and barriers between departments is essential to deliver the next level of improvement.
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Practice
Structuring automation and systematic procedures is essential to deliver effective and consistent operation. By integrating different operational disciplines (e.g. planning, execution, and maintenance), automation can deliver the next level of proactive improvement – a usually impossible task with a conventional automation approach.
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Coupled with a system that structures performance monitoring and bench-marking of all tasks, this will transform mundane operation to rewarding analytics that facilitates continuous improvement.
Historically, some advanced control strategies often die as soon as the champion or the inventor leaves the organisation. Crucial factors for sustainable performance of an advanced control strategy are:
1. Sound knowledge transfer to operation and maintenance team through a joint-team approach.
2. Simple operator and engineering interface that provides insights to the control strategy and its decision rationale.
3. Staged approach to ensure good foundation for system and human knowledge to facilitate consolidating system understanding and acceptance.
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Performance
Most processes have complex interactions, hence it is difficult for operator to manage without significant insight of the process. In order to ensure good performance, it is essential to have a control strategy that embeds a process model and transforms operator tasks to a simple goal-based decision with clear trade-off.
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In order to ensure sustained optimised performance, the operator graphical interface and control system needs to be equipped with an engineering configuration that facilitates system diagnostics and adjustments through parameterised adjustment attributes designed as part of OP3 Approach requirements.
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About Us
Our founder, Dr Kim Law is a passionate leader of innovation through the practical application of advanced concepts using automation control technology. He has over 30 years experience and mentoring and developing teams in both engineering and operation organisations. The vision & mission of OP3 Consulting is to contribute to the operational engineering society through knowledge sharing via collaborative technical consulting services applying OP3 Approach.
Our Services
OP3 Consulting specialises in applying the OP3 Approach for delivering comprehensive automation and control solutions. Our services cover the whole life cycle of implementation of control strategies, such as:
1. Project Management, Execution and Delivery style that inspire creativity through inclusive team environment that balance creativity based on available schedule and potential risks.
2. Operational Review, Scoping Study and Transformation Roadmap Formulation
3. Conceptual System Design, Control and Automation Strategies, Roadmap and Cost Estimate
4. Functional Specification Development using OP3 Approach
5. Detailed Design Specification using OP3 Approach(incorporating configurability, testability and maintainability)
6. Design, joint team supervision and coaching & knowledge transfer
7. Testing and Commissioning Specification Development and Test Acceptance Representation
8. Leading and managing R&D projects (providing thought leadership and mentorship)
9. Optimising and tuning process control loops and control strategies
10. Operational training, support and mentoring.
Experience & Publications
Our team has been involved in projects (prior to OP3) in the following areas:
Bulk Material Handling (e.g. Iron Ore, Coal)
Mobile Machine Automation (e.g. Reclaimers, Stackers, Dredges)
Mining and mineral processing (e.g.Titanium, Iron, Nickel)
Metal refining and rolling (e.g. Steel, Nickel)
References & Useful/Interesting Links
The OP3 Approach requires Behaviour and Philosophy transformation.
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