Mining
Optimizing Mining Operations for Profitability and Resilience
We have proven expertise in enabling mining organizations to navigate industry-specific challenges, including improving asset utilization and supply chain, ensuring environmental compliance, and addressing workforce shortages and data silos. Our solutions are geared toward ensuring advanced predictive maintenance, lifecycle and scenario modeling, improved decision-making, and driving sustainable organizational change.
Meet our experts
Dan Hilker
Senior ConsultantDan is an accomplished international maintenance management professional with a 30-year career supporting organisations to develop and implement advanced technology, business solutions, and strategies to meet their evolving needs.
His experience spans multiple industry sectors – including Transportation, Utilities, Oil and Gas, Mining, Pulp and Paper, Manufacturing, and Aerospace – and solutions including Bentley’s AssetWise and IBM Maximo (with 15 years experience in the latter).
Working with major industry names including Glencore, LA Metro and the City of Toronto, he has developed reliability programmes, supported software and integration configuration and established data analytics to enable owner operators to truly understand and ‘know’ their asset health and condition.
Bouke Spoelstra
Senior Sales ManagerBouke is a qualified Mechanical Engineer with 35 years’ experience in asset performance management and maintenance optimisation.
With a background in the heavy steel-manufacturing environment as a maintenance and development engineer, Bouke today focuses on delivering technology enabled asset management solutions to industry that are both innovative and practical.
Part of our South Africa team, he has a strong understanding of the regional challenges and opportunities and of the role that enterprise asset management solutions like IBM Maximo can play in helping organisations to respond to those and in underpinning resilient, sustainable and high performing assets.
