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Today, data and technology are helping create better visibility of strategic variables and more sustainable businesses in the mining industry. This is why smart companies seek Digital Engineering to increase efficiency and help optimise resources.
Mincka utilises sensing hardware and software, as well as cloud computing to perform a range of services. For example, we monitor the structural integrity conditions of infrastructure; measure air quality for environmental management purposes; and monitor processes as a risk management tool. Most importantly it happens with incredible accuracy, thanks to the Internet of Things (IoT).
Our clients have clear goals, such as enhancing the safety, efficiency, and productivity of their operations. By taking the time to understand your challenges and objectives, our engineers can apply their technical capabilities to implement cutting-edge solutions like Digital Twins, IIoT systems, BIM, and Advanced Data Analytics to solve complex problems.
Unlike our OEM competitors, we have in-house skills and resources providing end-to-end service, including coding and deployment, as well as system compatibility. The solution we deliver is more open, more cost-effective, and efficient.
Our strategic digital design and advanced analytics convert data into actionable insights, propelling your business toward innovation and operational excellence in a seamless, customer-focused partnership.
Expertise Provided:
- Digital Twin Development
- IIoT System Design and Installation
- Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Advanced Mapping
- Operational Digital Strategy Design and Deployment
- Advanced Data Analytics
Meeting societal expectations around environmental sustainability is one of the greatest challenges in the mining industry today. Environmentally conscious alternatives for your plants and projects are imperative.
In assessing your mining site, our engineers consider your alternatives holistically. A sustainable solution encopasses greener buildings (eg construction materials; insulation, cooling/heating systems), better decision-making systems (eg air quality monitoring; measuring green efforts), and increased asset life cycle.
Our engineering studies, such as Carbon Emissions Calculation, enable us to customise solutions that integrate seamlessly with your existing systems. The outcome is sustainable practices that future-proof your organisation.
Expertise Provided:
- Infrastructure Monitoring Systems Design & Deployment
- Environmental & Natural Resource Monitoring Systems Design & Deployment
- Data Analytics & Reporting Solutions
- Carbon Emissions Calculation
- Sustainable Timber-Based Design
A sustainable business depends on proper life cycle management. From reducing operational costs to improving safety, your organisations profitability depends on it. In fact, optimising your resources is the key to generating sustainable asset value.
Our engineers are experts when it comes to extending the efficiency and longevity of your assets. Mincka can support you in navigating each phase of the asset lifecycle – from design to sustainable decommissioning.
Proprietary damage detection algorithms assist Mincka’s engineers in identifying and preventing issues that impact your plant and machinery. Our work methodologies are supported by high-end computer simulations and ground-truthing methods. These studies provide accurate results and support your asset investment decisions.
Mincka’s strong commitment to sustainability through innovation and green engineering means we are passionate about performance optimisation and environmentally conscious solutions.
Expertise Provided:
- Processing and Non Processing Infrastructure
- Optimisation of Asset Performance and Upgrades
- Maintenance and Engineering Governance Framework Design
- Statutory Inspections and Conditions Assessment
- Asset Decommissioning, Recycling and Disposal Consultation
Maintenance & Engineering Governance
Getting the best out of your people and assets is vital to maintain safe OHS practises as well as balancing production needs and business goals which may need creative solutions by experts. There’s a lot that can go wrong with heavy machinery and capital infrastructure. This is why Mincka encourages collaboration with all levels of your organisation, to leverage broader experience and provide accurate information relevant to the residual risk of critical assets.
Expertise Provided:
- Machinery condition assessment
- Health and safety risk assessments
- Conveyor equipment commissioning and safety audits
- Mobile mining equipment introduction to site and safety audits
- Underground road development machinery introduction to site and safety audits
- Feasibility studies to understand the most effective repair/replace strategy
- Asset management and maintenance strategy
Structural & Mechanical Design
Complex operations demand exceptional structural and mechanical design. You can’t expect to deliver on target, every time, without ensuring you have the most stable and efficient infrastructure. Our international team manages a wide variety of design, engineering, and due diligence activities. Mincka leverages a best-in-class client management services (CRM) technology for integrated, active and fully transparent information distribution. We offer our clients an extensive network of specialists and subject matter experts to prove insight, support, and oversized results.
Expertise Provided:
- Structural and Mechanical design and engineering of machinery and structures
- Due diligence of modifications to existing machinery and structures
- Hydraulic design and engineering
- System design and engineering
- Weld engineering
- Drafting
Research & Development
Our mission is to develop cutting edge technologies for defect detection and monitoring capital intensive infrastructure, which results in practical, packaged solutions for our clients. Over the last 3 years we have invested more than $1 million in collaboration with top research organisations in Australia, as well as private companies globally, including Belgium, Denmark, Spain and the U.S.
Our research is anchored in real life, existing conditions and occurrences, with constant feedback from professionals working in a given industry, to provide realistic, achievable solutions that deliver directly to the bottom line.
Extensive partnerships with academic institutions (e.g., ACARP) and high-level private industry research organisations allow us to provide cost effective, applied learnings that provide accurate identification and mitigation of asset defects. This in turn reduces the need for manpower and enables remote operation.
Expertise Provided:
- Failure analysis of machinery components
- 3D laser scanning
- 3D CAD modelling
- Virtual reality
- 3D printing
- Digital twin
Structural Health Monitoring
We’ve put a wide range of sensing devices to the test, so that we can provide our clients with specific and informed recommendations. We only work with devices that are cost-effective, long-lasting, and provide comprehensive data analysis capabilities using hands-on visualisation tools. This gives you the greatest level of certainty for identifying defects and clearly isolating structural risks for high availability and lifecycle management.
Structural & Mechanical Statutory Inspections
Maximising uptime and fostering best practices for the safe operation of equipment are vital to every organisation. It takes a team like ours at Mincka to carefully and meticulously evaluate and present the information regarding the condition of any asset to our clients in an intuitive and practical format to our clients. Detailed identification of structural defects mitigates unplanned downtime and helps to prevent catastrophic failure so that clients can continue safe and productive operations.
Expertise Provided:
- Statutory inspection of mining equipment
- Site supervisions
- Plant and equipment audits
- Pressure vessels inspections
- Lifting equipment and crane inspections
- Classified plant inspections
- Non-destructive testing
Asset Life Extension
Your ability to meet targets and deadlines is dependent on the longevity and integrity of your assets. By combining extensive field testing with comprehensive computer simulation, Mincka consultants and engineers prepare and deliver an in-depth, detailed report for any facility or environment. This allows our clients to make informed decisions about potential capital replacement and/or repair investments to extend the life of their critical infrastructure.
Expertise Provided:
- Detailed structural repair guidelines
- Field supervision and technical superintending of critical repairs
- Corrosion control
- Fitness for service assessments on critical mining equipment
Asset Design Compliance
Compliance to local and international engineering standards and statutory requirements is non-negotiable. Information is only useful if it meets the standards and requirements imposed in a client’s environs. Compliance evaluation analysis by our world-class experts using sophisticated simulation tools ensures that our clients address all legislated health and safety issues.
Compliance to locally and internationally recognised engineering standards and statutory requirements is expected and essential to ensure the safe operation of process and non-process infrastructure. This is critical for all organisations to properly manage risk and to operate efficiently under the requirements of the law.
Expertise Provided:
- Certification of mining machinery structures
- Mobile and Fixed plant
- Structural integrity of fixed plant and mobile equipment
Our Work
Our Work
We do things differently here
- welcome to daily innovation
When it comes to engineering consulting, there’s no one quite like Mincka. Our 24/7 remote operating model ensures we meet the needs of mining in a changing world. This model ensures our team is there to respond to our customers anytime, anywhere, no matter the hour. Mining doesn’t sleep, so neither does Mincka.
And just as importantly, we’re responsive to the needs of our team. We offer Mincka employees unrivalled independence, career progression, and ownership of their work.
If you’re ready to join a global team of likeminded experts, take a look at our open positions. If you don’t see a role that suits you at this time, reach out and introduce yourself – let’s start the conversation.
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