Shutdown management software for concentrators and mineral processing plants.
Critical shutdown information is spread across ERPs, planning systems, spreadsheets, contractors, supervisors, and the plant floor. Sights brings readiness, execution, and reporting into one operational view to ensure everyone has the same operational picture.
Take ownership of the STO lifecycle
Sights connects each stage of the shutdown process in one shared operational system, giving teams continuity from initial strategy through post-shutdown improvement.
Strategy
Build a shutdown strategy based on measurable drivers: wear, risk, backlog, critical path. Helping teams clearly define the necessary work and prevent unnecessary jobs.
Readiness
Track the status of work packages, materials, documentation, and resources, so readiness gaps are visible and resolved before execution begins.
Execution
Maintain real-time situational awareness during maintenance events ensuring emerging delays can be identified and addressed before they become overruns.
Reporting
Capture actual progress, field events, and delay causes in a structured record helping teams make future shutdown decisions based on verifiable data.
How Does Sights Work?
Strategy & Drivers
Ancillary liners are often replaced during major shutdowns because access is available instead of liners reaching the end of their useful life. Sights uses two-point UT measurements and processed tonnage to calculate wear rates and forecast the required liner thickness for the next operating cycle. This allows teams to align ancillary liner life with planned shutdown intervals, reducing premature replacements and wear-related mid-cycle stops while directly improving maintenance cost per tonne.
Planning & Readiness
Recurring shutdown work is often rebuilt across spreadsheets, documents, and disconnected systems, making true readiness difficult to verify. Sights organizes each job into a reusable work package containing the required procedures, permits, risk assessments, lift plans, tools, materials, and schedules, while ERP integration keeps procurement status visible. Teams can identify incomplete work packages and material constraints before execution begins, reducing repeated planning effort and delays caused by missing information, documentation, or resources.
The Mill Reline Module
When contractors control reline planning, mines may lack the task-level data needed to challenge durations and commercial assumptions. Sights provides the structure and task-level execution data required to support Level 6 reline planning. Including individual tasks, inching sequences, LOTO activities, shift changes, breaks, and handovers. This enables tighter, evidence-based schedules, strengthens contractor cost control, and helps reduce both avoidable contractor time and lost production.
Execution & Photo Verification
Even mature reporting processes can still leave a gap between plant-floor activity and the information available to decision-makers. Sights captures task-level progress, actual durations, delay causes, and verification evidence as work occurs, complementing existing execution controls with a current, verifiable field record. Supervisors gain earlier visibility of emerging critical-path constraints, while the operation builds reliable performance data for intervention, contractor evaluation, and future shutdown planning.
Reporting & Continuous Improvement
When execution detail is not captured as work occurs, critical context is often lost before final reporting and post-shutdown review. Sights preserves task-level progress, actual durations, delay causes, notes, and verification evidence in a structured record of the event. This data generates automated S-curves and factual KPIs. Sights gives teams a common factual basis for determining where and why time was lost, reducing disputes between stakeholders and ensuring continuous-improvement priorities are driven by operational evidence.
Offline Capability & Integration
Sights is designed for the physical and digital realities of mineral processing operations. Field teams can continue recording progress without reliable connectivity, with updates synchronized using their original timestamps once a connection is restored. API and OPC connectivity allow Sights to work alongside compatible ERP, CMMS, scheduling, and plant systems rather than replace them. This extends shutdown visibility to the plant floor while preserving the enterprise architecture and established workflows already in place. Sights is designed for deployment within 30 days, subject to scope, system access, and integration requirements.
Evaluate Sights against your actual shutdown environment, systems, and priorities in a focused 30-minute conversation.
How Does Sights Help You?
Ensure that safety, production, and cost targets are met with verifiable, site-wide results. Sights provides a complete, auditable record of every event on the plant floor, replacing manual and verbal reporting with a high-fidelity data set. This level of transparency allows for accurate benchmarking across multiple sites and ensures that your high-stakes STO events are managed with uncompromising discipline.
Protect your production budget and hit your availability targets with data-driven execution control. Sights uses sophisticated wear algorithms to synchronize ancillary equipment maintenance, preventing premature liner changes and eliminating unplanned mid-cycle stops. By tightening the execution loop, you minimize your total maintenance spend and lower your cost per produced ton ($/t).
Stop planning the same jobs every year. Use a secure, templated framework to build and reuse asset specific work packages that include all necessary documentation: SOPs, lift plans, risk assesments, tools, permits. Track readiness status at a glance to get an accurate view of procurement and planning readiness.
Establish a single source of truth for planning and execution across your entire area. Real-time situational awareness allows you to identify critical-path bottlenecks as they happen, giving you the lead time to intervene before the schedule slips. With an automated audit trail of every field event and delay code, you can focus your continuous improvement on factual data, not just the loudest voice in the room.
Eliminate the friction of manual reporting with a mobile application designed for the plant floor. Gain real-time situational awareness of LOTO isolations and critical-path milestones as they happen. Automated push notifications alert your teams of upcoming tasks, while mandatory photo-verification ensures that every safety-critical isolation is visually confirmed and documented before the next trade commences work.