In the mining world, processing and corporate IT infrastructures rarely merge effectively, so this represents an extraordinarily strategic and smart move to integrate the two together to not only reduce costs but also complexity.
Key Challenges in Shutdown Optimisation
A shutdown optimisation assessment and roadmap that can improve schedule and cost performance by up to 30%.
Intro paragraph:
For Resource and Energy companies, better management of shutdowns, turnarounds and outages (STO) can improve operational performance and yield schedule and cost improvements of up to 30%. Denver Technology’s shutdown optimisation assessment and roadmap gives you a clear understanding of where you are today, where you want to be, and the practical steps to get there, increasing worker safety, improving information reliability and reducing your shutdown risk profile along the way.
Using an agile, outcome-based approach, we deliver a 30-day assessment across four stages, initiation and planning, workshops and discovery, analysis, and reporting, drawing on more than 30 years of experience in mining, oil and gas industries. The result is a tangible, actionable roadmap with quick wins identified alongside longer-term opportunities, benchmarked against peers of a similar size and industry.
Incomplete Preparation and Scope Control
Many organisations enter shutdown windows without clear scope definition, planning maturity or dependency visibility, increasing risk and inefficiency.
Coordination Breakdowns Across Workstreams
Shutdown activities often suffer from disconnected teams, weak sequencing or unclear ownership that slows execution and affects productivity.
Execution Without Improvement Insight
Managing shutdowns without a structured optimisation roadmap leads to repeated inefficiencies, avoidable delays and limited performance gains.
Readiness and Governance Constraints
High-performing shutdowns require more than schedules, they depend on leadership oversight, workforce readiness and controlled execution practices.
Tailored to shutdown execution, this framework examines readiness, coordination and control disciplines improving safety and performance.
Shutdown plans, schedules and stakeholder structures are reviewed to establish execution baseline.
Stakeholders discuss dependencies and coordination needs.
Work packaging and governance controls are examined across critical activities.
Analyse collated quantitative and qualitative data for findings report & presentation.
Results and recommended actions are presented to leadership for shutdown planning decisions.
Structured deliverables that improve shutdown readiness and performance.
The output set gives operational leaders better visibility of preparation gaps, stronger governance insight and a clearer route to more controlled shutdown execution.
A dedicated package of assessment materials is prepared to support future shutdown uplift, including:
Assessment conclusions are documented in a report designed to support safer planning and more efficient execution, including:
In the mining world, processing and corporate IT infrastructures rarely merge effectively, so this represents an extraordinarily strategic and smart move to integrate the two together to not only reduce costs but also complexity.
Manager Technology Operations & Governance at Roy Hill
Denver’s extensive mining industry expertise meant that they can be fully involved in what is happening on the ground at our mine and make the appropriate recommendations. Whilst we had the high-level vision of what was required, we needed a specialist partner to drive the implementation and Denver was the perfect choice for us.
Specialist Engineer - Control Systems at Roy Hill
We need to be in a position where we can take fast, decisive action to respond to market changes and business needs. Technology is central to increasing operational efficiency while maintaining safe work practices and reducing cost. Denver has worked with us to ensure technology initiatives and the business were in sync to take us to where we want to be.
IT Manager at Sandfire Resources
The teams are all speaking your praise with comments like ‘Best IT project we have ever seen’, ‘the Denver team are great, really know their stuff’, ‘Looking forward to working with them at Toledo’. I appreciate the professionalism and long hours you have all put into this to make it a success and show that it is possible to deliver a successful major project in the patchwork vendor environment that we have here in the US.
Global Digital Portfolio Owner - Manufacturing Productivity at BP
Denver helped us to identify the IT and OT opportunities with the greatest business impact. They have a holistic view and they are prepared to do things right. They are easy to work with, flexible and approachable and have brought great value to enabling our business.
IT Manager at ATOM
This project was very high risk due to the age of the existing version, extensive software customizations, a tight budget and a fixed delivery timeline that was driven by a major upcoming TAR. The skill and experience brought to the project by the Denver team enabled the successful delivery of the project on time, under budget and within scope. Denver is an excellent organisation to work with and they deliver what they say they will deliver.
Manager of IT Strategy, Architecture & Project Portfolios at BP
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It’s a structured review of how your shutdowns, turnarounds and outages are supported by technology and process, identifying opportunities to improve safety, reliability and cost performance, backed by a practical roadmap.
Better shutdown management can yield schedule and cost improvements of up to 30%, alongside gains in plant uptime, work quality and equipment reliability.
Our shutdown optimisation assessment and roadmap is delivered over 30 days across four stages: initiation and planning, workshops and discovery, analysis, and reporting.
You’ll receive a catalogue of artefacts including a stakeholder register and actions register, a full assessment and roadmap report with heat mapping and quick wins, an executive summary presentation, and execution options for delivering the roadmap.
We provide execution options alongside the roadmap, so you can choose the right delivery model to put the recommendations into action.