The Mining industry has undergone significant changes over the past few years. Not only have we seen major consolidation activities within the industry, we have also seen the rise of new players like China and India, increasing competition significantly. Increasing commodity prices and economic growth have given way to slowdown and recession. The need to conserve cash and contain costs has never been higher!

Gijima Mining Solutions International (GMSI) understands this state of affairs and its impact on the information management requirements at global, regional and operational levels.

For example, mining companies are constantly faced with challenges that include:

• Increased safety focus where accidents and non-compliance to regulations are no longer tolerated
• Pressure to reduce intensive consumption of energy  as well as pollution caused by emissions generated during the production process
• Focus on cost containment and potential operational cutbacks or closure as a means of survival
• Volatile commodity prices influenced by currency fluctuations and unpredictable customer demands.

As a result, they have to balance short-term responses with long-term strategy, weighing the long timescales needed for major infrastructure projects against variations in prices and demand.

It has become imperative to you as a business leader to establish and maintain relationships with service providers who understand your strategic drivers as well as information required for decision making, enabling you to improve your competitiveness.

GMSI is a perfect partner in this regard and can provide value around the following major information management themes helping you with:

Mine Performance Improvement

Our experience means that we are able to integrate mine planning activities (long, medium and short term) into daily production management and operational control.

The integrated nature of our solution consequently allows you to routinely reconcile actual performance against plan from geological model to delivered product.

Our technical and business consultants, experienced in multiple mining methods, understand information requirements and can make significant contributions to your business, assisting with achievement of your operational goals.

Improved Risk Management

The ever increasing focus on Enterprise Wide Risk Management and Corporate Governance demands a fresh and integrated approach to all the components of risk management from operational safety to corporate health and wellness.

GMSI’s G-Risk enables you to manage a variety of lead and lag indicators for improved risk performance. More than just operational safety, the solution is configurable to cover all aspects of risk management and includes specific functionality to manage ventilation, occupational hygiene and health as well as compliance to environmental standards.

Improve Business Performance through Spatial Intelligence

Your business environment is three dimensional, meaning decision-making information should also be represented in that form.

GMSI’s spatialDash can give this!

Visual analysis with GMSI’s spatialDash frequently results in uncovering previously unrecognised data relationships and patterns of cause and effect. Spatial intelligence is the visualisation of spatially referenced data allowing decision makers a multi-disciplinary view of the business.

Implementing appropriately configured mining technical IT solutions enable you to have a seamless flow of information and spatial reporting from the planning room to the boardroom, enhancing your decision-making which leads to improved business performance.

In summary, the answer to a question is not only tables and graphs, but ultimately a picture.

Why Gijima?

Gijima is a trusted partner and industry leader in the IT sector, offering a broad selection of IT solutions to the mining industry. With a market share of more than 90% in South Africa and placed 4th in global ranking in IT Technical Solutions for Mining, we are well positioned to provide superior solutions and service to you.

Our 11 years’ experience in the mining sector, complemented by our business and technical expertise as well as extensive experience in Applications support, including SAP ERP support; Mining Technical Solutions, Systems Integration, Hosted Infrastructure Services and Human Capital Management renders us the perfect preferred supplier for your business and IT requirements.

Our high quality consultants’ understanding of this industry enables them to make significant contributions to our clients’ business in the sense of value-added work resulting in cost savings amongst other business indicators.

We are privileged to have a selection of blue-chip local and multi-national clients with which we collaborate by providing thought leadership and guidance to optimise their business drivers and unlock their human capital potential.

For further information or a demonstration of our services and solutions, please contact our Mining Industry Sales department on 012 675 5000 or e-mail mining@gijima.com.