Designing a Mine Ops Analytics App

Product design

Project Overview

To create a place that would allow mining managers to analyze historical performance and consequentially make improvements. This, part of a bigger platform for monitoring metrics and tasks across all the operation.

Role & duration

One of two UX designers, collaborated with two product teams, the design systems team, and mining SMEs. 6 months.

Problems

Their current processes involve scattered information across various sources (e.g., Excel sheets, BI reports, whiteboards, verbal status updates, or loosely documented shift notes), making it difficult to identify the what, where, and why of the problems they encounter.

Hypothesis

Our app will serve as the comprehensive source for all haul cycle information, enabling users to analyze both current and historical. This will facilitate the quick identification of recurring issues and their root causes, support prioritized decision-making based on loss analysis, and streamline task delegation to ground staff. Ultimately, the system aims to resolve these issues and optimize material movement daily according to the plan.
Results pending
The process
Empathize
  • SME interviews
  • Secondary research
Ideate and iterate
  • Brainstorming workshops
  • Sketches
Launch
  • High fidelity mockups
  • Prototypes
Understand

User flow

By talking with our mining SME's and conducting secondary research, we were able to map out our users' activities and decision making process.
Solution

Haul Cycle Health

An analytics tool that aims to empower mining companies and their Ops Leadership with holistic insights they need to understand root cause of critical or recurring haul-cycle problems.

1. Understand how the mine is doing

The left pane allows supervisors to quickly assess mine performance for different time periods, and identify which metric could be underperforming.

2. Deep dive and investigate

Once an underperforming metric is identified, supervisors can investigate the reason for the variance and estimate its impact.

3. Take action

Once issues are identified, supervisors can create and delegate tasks to the team or escalate the issue to a different department.
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