COSOL News & Insights

Organisations today face mounting pressures to transform their asset management strategies. The future lies in a fully integrated digital ecosystem, leveraging AI, machine learning, and data-driven technologies to enable predictive and prescriptive maintenance. To achieve this advanced maturity, businesses need scalable solutions that not only support their current operations but also provide a clear path to enhance their asset management capabilities.

With MRO inventory values often reaching from fifty to hundreds of million dollars and growing year on year, organisations face many challenges managing their MRO inventory, including understanding the true value of their inventory and identifying the potential cost savings that can be achieved through efficient inventory management. In this article, we look at how organisations can identify the potential of inventory optimisation.

Payload capacity is critical in mining. COSOL helped a client achieve a 5.9% payload increase with a lightweight tray upgrade, unlocking efficiency, reducing costs, and improving fleet productivity.

The best ERP systems are only as good as the data they hold, and unfortunately there are so many businesses migrating rubbish data into shiny new systems but ending up with the same result.

In September, COSOL are heading to the largest global mining conference - MINExpo International being held in Las Vegas, USA. This major industry event attracts over 44,000 mining industry professionals and COSOL are looking forward to showing them how they can take their asset management to the next level. Learn more >

With an easing of commodity prices, mining companies are looking for ways to reduce operational costs while maintaining production targets, managing constraints on supply chains and ESG regulatory pressures. In this article we look at 3 simple ways to optimise your mining inventory and reduce operational costs.

This is the first article in our series that unpacks the changes and impacts of leading Geographic Information System (GIS) software provider - Esri's user type and licensing updates which started to come into effect from mid 2024. In this article we look at what is changing and what you can do to best prepare your organisation for the changes.

Today COSOL launched a new Digital Twin viewer for IBM Maximo Application Suite in partnership with Nextspace and digital engineering specialists, DBM Vircon. The viewer provides geospatial BIM viewing and 4D integration and is designed to overcome the scale and complexity limitations of existing IBM MAS plugin viewers. Learn more >

COSOL helped a major iron ore mine achieve a 12.5% cost reduction by developing a fact-based HME fleet strategy. The approach improved asset availability, reduced maintenance labour demand, and delivered over AUD 142 million in business value.

Discover how COSOL’s collaborative approach helped a major South African mine boost excavator fleet production and shift focus to preventative maintenance.

Learn how taking a deeper look at your asset challenges - through root cause analysis, benchmarking, and capability assessment - can lead to lasting improvements.

With organisations increasingly aware of the need to balance ESG goals and responsibilities with cost, risk and productivity demands, implementing sustainable MRO inventory management has become as essential mechanism to not only reduce costs or asset downtime but is an effective way to activly reduce greenhouse gas emissions across the value chain. Learn more >