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Field notes from the planning room.
Observations on planning, data, and the work of running a fleet. Cadence intentionally irregular — published when there is something worth saying. Author: Willie Jacobs.
Observations on planning, data, and the work of running a fleet. Cadence intentionally irregular — published when there is something worth saying. Author: Willie Jacobs.
An assessment of where the planning discipline sits in mining today — what is mature, what is still missing, and why the gap matters more than it used to. The starting point for everything Birchwood Advisory was built to address.
The gap between what mining operations expect from maintenance planning and what they typically get. Why the standard playbook produces inconsistent results, and what foundational basics look like when they are properly in place.
Why headline averages on fleet metrics hide the variation that actually drives outcomes. The decisions a planner needs to make live in the tails, not the mean.
Why mining operations regularly fail to extract proportionate value from expensive FMS implementations — and what changes when the tool is held to the same standard as any other planning input.
More to come.
Cadence is intentionally irregular.
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