How Does Your Plant Measure Up? Develop a productivity profile to find out.

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Author: Performance Associates International, Inc. Whitepaper/Case Study
Plant Equipment Process Production Mining Minerals

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How can the overall performance of your plant be determined? Most plants calculate availability, or the percent of the time the plant or a particular circuit is operating, as well as overall production and recovery. But, is this information enough? Does it provide sufficient fine-grained information on where improvements can be made?

This paper suggests five quantitative factors applied to a plant or to individual parts of a plant that identify the productivity of the plant—in other words, its productivity profile.




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