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Metals and Mining

“Our industry is getting squeezed from every direction. How can we reduce costs while increasing efficiencies, and optimizing performance?”

Extracting optimal performance from the metals and mining industry

At POWERS, we understand that the Metals and Mining sector faces increasingly complex, global challenges. While demand is sky-rocketing around the world, the industry weighs the rising costs of:

  • Detection, extraction, processing, and transportation
  • Energy
  • Sustainability
  • Infrastructure
  • Skilled labor
  • Technology
  • Heightened resource nationalism

As a result, the Metals and Mining industry remains under unprecedented pressure to reduce costs, increase efficiencies, and optimize performance.

We Are Implementation Experts, Turning Insight And Strategy Into Real Performance Improvement That Is Both Immediate And Sustainable.
Our unique approach aligns your company culture to critical performance outcomes to save time and money and increase the bottom line. As a result, improvement is rapid and sustainable.

Our expert team at POWERS has experience implementing specific measures to address our clients’ unique challenges in the Metals and Mining sector. These areas include:

  • Establish cost-reduction KPIs across the enterprise
  • Implement sustainable cost-reduction programs
  • Carefully manage general expenses
  • Implementing front and back-office automation
  • Review and, where necessary, renegotiate supplier contracts
  • Review capital allocations
  • Divest non-core assets
  • Implement proactive performance metrics
  • Modernize and standardize operations
  • Increase labor effectiveness, efficiency, and productivity
  • Integrate and optimize processes
  • Isolate and eliminate production bottlenecks
  • Increase maintenance performance
  • Increase production run rates and yields
  • Create an environment of continuous performance improvement
  • Align your stated culture to performance outcomes
  • Review wage and benefit offerings
  • Create clear opportunities for advancement
  • Provide effective feedback and communication
  • Conduct retention interviews for aging skilled workers
  • Understand what is important to younger skilled workers
  • Invest in talent
  • Listen to frontline leaders, make certain they are heard
  • Clearly define roles, responsibilities, and expectations
  • Create opportunities for continuous training and development
  • Connect performance expectations to a culture of continuous performance improvement
  • Provide clear and effective communication, coaching, and feedback
  • Define advancement pathway
  • Reward improvement

POWERS has helped global manufacturing leaders respond swiftly and effectively to operational challenges such as demand spikes, underutilized capacity, sourcing issues, flagging competitive advantage, and much more.

Our unique approach aligns your workplace culture to performance outcomes resulting in immediate and sustainable performance improvement. Our team of highly experienced, hands-on management professionals helps reduce waste, lower costs, increase efficiencies, and optimize quality and performance from the shop floor to the top floor.

Our focus is on immediate and sustained improvement in:

If increasing performance to respond to marketplace demands is vital to your organization, we’d like to speak with you. We can help your enterprise meet the challenges of the ever-dynamic Metals and Mining sector head-on.

To schedule an initial discovery and analysis with our dedicated management consulting team, please call us at +1 678-971-4711, email us at info@thepowerscompany.com, or provide your contact information here.

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