DIGITALISATION
- MAINTENANCE 4.0 ELEMENTS TOM! CEMENT PLANT ‘TARGET OPERATING MODELS’
- MAINTENANCE 4.0 ELEMENTS by Angus Maclean, EVP Construction & Building Materials EMEA, Proudfoot Businesses impacted by the recent global crisis have been finding innovative ways to bounce back and get ready for a new normal. A key strategy to revitalise business and profitability is to identify ways to maximise business value. Proudfoot, a global management consulting firm that focuses on value creation through operations and digital transformation, has just launched TOM!, the next
Figure 1: TOM components for an industrial firm.
Mr Angus Maclean
generation Target Operating Models (TOM) for business transformation. Proudfoot’s TOM! service takes approximately 20 weeks to design, develop and implement, and optimises business operations to create maximum value. Raw materials sourcing, production, maintenance, supply chain, outbound logistics, sales, suppliers, management processes and systems, strategy, and digital capabilities are all critical elements of a TOM. Cement TOMs overcome the technical, operational, financial, commercial, digital, environmental and organisational challenges, that the cement industry currently faces, end-toend, from the quarry to the client’s site. TOMs allow firms to optimise, digitise and humanise.
Figure 2: Visualisation of topics covered in a cement plant TOM. THE SINGAPORE ENGINEER January 2021
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