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Conference Program

March 30 - April 1, 2016. Hotel Grand Hyatt Santiago, Chile

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30

16:00-19:00 Registration, Foyer

18:00-18:30 Authors and Session Chair Coordination Meeting, Ballroom A

MARCH 30
BALLROOM A & B
Inauguration Ceremony
19:00
Words of Welcome
  • Carlos Barahona, Minexcellence 2016 Executive Director; General Manager, Gecamin, Chile
  • Alice Clark, Minexcellence 2016 Co-Chair; Director - Production Centres, Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland, Australia
  • John Shook, Minexcellence 2016 Honorary President; Chairman & CEO, Lean Enterprise Institute, USA
  • Rodrigo Subiabre, Minexcellence 2016 Chair; Asset Director Collahuasi, and Vice President Business Improvement and Operational Strategy-Copper, Anglo American, Chile

Opening Address

Operational Excellence: Critical Factor for Success 

Jorge Gómez, Executive President, Compañía Minera Doña Inés de Collahuasi SCM, Chile

20:00 - 21:30 Welcome Reception. Foyer
MARCH 31
BALLROOM A & B
Plenary Session 1
Chair: Alice Clark, Director - Production Centres, SMI, The University of Queensland, Australia
08:20
Day 2 Program Update Laura Mottola, Minexcellence 2016 Technical Chair; President and CEO, Flow Partners, Canada
08:30
(ENG) The Five Dimensions of Lean Transformation John Shook, Chairman and CEO, Lean Enterprise Institute, USA
09:15
(SPA) The National Mining Program Mauro Valdés, President, Programa Nacional de Minería Alta Ley, Corporación Nacional de Fomento de la Producción (CORFO), Chile
10:00 - 10:40 Poster Session and Coffee Break. Foyer. Courtesy of GeoInnova
BALLROOM A
Session 1: Lean Production
Chair: Patricio Gahona, General Manager, Gestión de la Producción Asesorías, Chile
Session Sponsor GEPRO
10:40
(SPA) Lean Mining as an Operating Strategy Laura Mottola, Flow Partners, Canada; Rodrigo Çalderón, GConsulting, Chile
11:00
(SPA) Optimizing Throughput of Mining Production lines R. Pascual, R. Madariaga, G. Santelices and D. Godoy, Mining Engineering Department, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; E. López, Center for Risk Analysis and Environmental Modeling, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
11:20
(SPA) Lean Integration of a Multi-Sensor System for on-line Load Level Estimation in SAG Mills Jorge Pontt, Luis Vinnett and Waldo Valderrama, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María; Hernán Robles, Tania Ledezma and Javier Inostroza, Netos, Chile
11:40
(SPA) Incorporation of Continuous Improvement Methodology and Productive Increase in El Teniente Division, Codelco Chile Martín Piérola, Ignacio Gacitúa, Pablo Alvarado and Franco Bacigalupo, El Teniente Division, Codelco, Chile
12:00
(SPA) Implementation of Lean Management Philosophy in the Crushing and Handling Materials Area of Radomiro Tomic Mine M. Barraza, L. Quiroga, R. Soto, H. Sepúlveda, C. Gómez, M. Alanís, M. Riquelme, R. Tardón, N. Guarda, R. Santander, M. Díaz, R. Duque, T. Reyes, Radomiro Tomic Division, Codelco, Chile
12:20
(SPA) El Teniente Division, Diablo Regimiento Mine Throughput Increase

Octavio Cárdenas, Hernán Figueroa, Nicolás Rivera; Eduardo Viera, Marcos Herreros and Rodrigo Quiroz, El Teniente Division, Codelco, Chile

BALLROOM B
Session 2: Process Improvement and Technology Innovation
Chair: Fidel Báez, International Mining Consultant, Chile
10:40
(SPA) Automation and His Contribution to the Development of Mining Excellence: The Reality of Collahuasi Dalibor Dragicevic, Marcelo Jara and Freddy Gómez, Compañía Minera Doña Inés de Collahuasi, Chile
11:00
(SPA) Building a Business Case that Integrates and Transforms Processes to Immediately Add Value and Maximize Cash Flow Rodrigo Subiabre, Gustavo Arriagada and Fernando Romero, Anglo American; Cristóbal Mimica, Los Bronces Operation, Anglo American, Chile
11:20
(SPA) Integrated Management of Physical Mining Assets: Operational Performance and Productivity Peter Grundy, PGA Estrategia y Capacitación, Chile
11:40
(ENG) Adopting Manufacturing Philosophies to Improve Operational Stability Trevor Lukaniuk, Dassault Systèmes, Canada
12:00
(ENG) Costs Reduction and Performance Increase Through Diagnostics of CBM Processes Hamilton Borges, Matheus Gomes and Christiano Sousa, Andritz, Brasil
12:20
(SPA) New Method of Lixiviating Sulfides, Mixed Minerals, their Concentrates and Modular Universal Reactor Igor Polski, IGAL Tecnología,Chile
12:40-14:00 Lunch. Poolside Terrace
BALLROOM A
Session 3: Metallurgical Process Improvement
Chair: Luis Cortés, Manager Process Metallurgy, BHP Billiton, Chile
14:00
(SPA) Processes Simulation in Caletones Smelter El Teniente Division by Module HSC-SIM of HSC Chemistry 6.12 Piero Tardón, El Teniente Division, Codelco, Chile
14:20
(SPA) Optimization of Flotation Operations for Metallic Minerals Augusto Reijer, Eqiip; Pedro Acuña and René Burgos, ConsultCorp, Chile
14:40
(ENG) The Value of Real-Time Particle Size Tracking on Individual Cyclones Dylan Cirulis, Christian O’Keefe, Juan Medina and Robert  Maron, CiDRA Minerals Processing, USA
15:00
(SPA) Improving Electro Winning Heating System and Copper Quality in DGM, Codelco: The Pampa Elvira Solar Thermal Plant René Canello and César Belaúnde, Energía Llaima; Richard Aylwin, Codelco, Chile
15:20
(ENG) A Transformative Process to Optimize Performance: Improvement in Crushing Throughput Michael Nucifora, Tony Brand, and Lucas Dow, Integrated Global Partners, Australia
BALLROOM B
Session 4: Mining Process Improvement
Chair: Carlos Ahumada, Operations Manager, Minera Centinela, Chile
14:00
(SPA) Boosting Mining Company’s Competitiveness Patricio Oyanader and Emilio De Giacomo, Aurys Consulting, Chile
14:20
(ENG) Making Better Haulage Decisions Through Simulation Adam Price, RungePincockMinarco, Australia and Diego Santibáñez, RungePincockMinarco, Chile
14:40
(SPA) Mine Planning Information from Photogrammetry Sources in El Teniente Mine Pedro González, Carolina Díaz and Pablo Rojas, El Teniente Division, Codelco; Enrique Faúndez, MineRP LATAM, Chile
15:00
(SPA) Disrupting Technologies and their Impact in the Mining & Metals Sector Igor Elias and Javier Espinoza, Mining Industry Robotic Solutions (MIRS), Chile
15:20
(SPA) Integrated Manufacturing Simulator for Improving Operational Management Efficiency Sergio Valenzuela, Consultora SVM; Claudio Niada, SISDEF, Chile
15:40-16:20 Poster Session and Coffee Break. Foyer. Courtesy of GeoInnova
BALLROOM A
Session 5: Asset Management, Maintenance and Supply Chain
Chair: Freddy Lara, Corporate Maintenance Management Director, Codelco, Chile
16:20
(SPA) Enhancing Contractor Management Rodrigo Herrera and Pedro Bustos, El Teniente Division, Codelco, Chile
16:40
(SPA) Methodology to Design Product-Service System Contracts for Mining Components Matías Siña and Rodrigo Pascual, Mining Engineering Department, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
17:00
(ENG) Using Analytics for Optimizing MRO Spares Inventory Levels Lindsay Clarke, Oniqua Intelligent MRO, USA; and Steve Pak, Oniqua Intelligent MRO, United Kingdom
17:20
(SPA) Integrated Mine Operations Model Diego Zamorano and Laura Mottola, Flow Partners; Tim Skinner, Flow Partnership/Smart Systems Group, Chile
17:40
(SPA) Dump Truck Hopper Maintenance Strategy Optimization Valentina Chico and Juan Ignacio Guzmán, Gestión y Economía Minera, Chile
18:00
TBC
BALLROOM B
Session 6: Innovations in Human Capital Management
Chair: Carlos Lexutt, Director of Productivity, Projects Vice Presidency, Codelco, Chile
16:20
(SPA) Business Improvement, Return of the Jedi Cristian Chandia and Alvaro Berenguela, Los Bronces Operation; Rodrigo Subiabre,  Anglo American, Chile
16:40
(ENG) Supporting Senior Leadership to Increase Operational Effectiveness Through Deliberate Work Based Practice Terry Dillon, Valerie Nishi, Julián Fuentes, Natalia Morales, The Refinery Leadership Partners, Canada
17:00
(SPA) The Enemy of Operational Excellence is the “Installation” of Change. “Implementing” Change is Where Most Organizations Fail Javier Lojo, Advisian & Worley Parsons, USA & LAM
17:20
(SPA) The Impact of System Training and Coaching on Fleet Management System Utilization Cristian Ramírez, Modular Mining Systems, Chile
17:40
(ENG) Experiential Learning, an Efficient Learning Tool for Any Improvement Journey Alan Peberdy and Isabel Camus, Synergistics South America, Chile
18:00
(SPA) Proactive Leadership: Development and Application of Effective People Productivity Tools for Front Line Supervisors Carlos Ruz and Cristian Magri, Minera Spence, BHP Billiton Pampa Norte, Chile
18:20 - 19:30 Networking Cocktail. Foyer
APRIL 01
BALLROOM A & B
Plenary Session 2
Chair: Marcelo Jara, Superintendent Automation, Instrumentation and Control, Compañía Minera Doña Inés de Collahuasi, Chile
08:20
Day 3 Program Update Laura Mottola, Minexcellence 2016 Technical Chair; President and CEO, Flow Partners, Canada
08:30
(SPA) The Transformation of Codelco José Antonio Robles, Vice President of Productivity and Costs, Codelco, Chile
09:15
(SPA) An Effective Methodology for Reducing Costs without Affecting Quality Fernando Jácome, Vice President & CPO, Strategic Sourcing and Cost Management, Latam  & Caribbean Hub’s, Scotiabank, Chile
10:00-10:40 Poster Session and Coffee Break. Foyer
BALLROOM A
Session 7: Lean Production
Chair: Cristián Barrientos, Expert Engineer in Ore Reserves, Antofagasta Minerals, Chile
10:40
(SPA) Application of a Methodology Based on Operational Excellence to Improve Process at Plant SAG-El Teniente, Codelco

Cristian Ramos, Jorge Venegas and Roberto Yáñez, El Teniente Division, Codelco, Chile

11:00
(SPA) Lean Methodology Applied to Anode Refining and Rejection Alejandra Arancibia, Cristian Miranda and Raúl Silva, El Teniente Division, Codelco, Chile
11:20
(SPA) Achieving Sustainable Operational Excellence in the Mining Industry

Ignacio di Bartolo, Partners in Performance, Chile

11:40
(SPA) Lean Methodology Applied to Peirce Smith Converters

María Isabel Campos and Jorge Del Castillo, El Teniente Division, Codelco, Chile

12:00
(SPA) Safety as a Key Enabler for the Business Strategy

Sebastián Trejos and Ramón Bilbao, Antofagasta Minerals, Chile

12:20
(SPA) Determining Efficient Risk-Based Inspection Programs for Mining Equipment E. López, Mechanical Engineering Department, Univesidad de Chile; M. Moura and I. Lins, Production Engineering Department, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil; R. Pascual, Mining Engineering Department, PUC de Chile
BALLROOM B
Session 8: Strategic Planning and Process Integration
Chair: Claudia Monreal, General Manager, Core Mining Studies, Chile
Session Sponsor Maptek
10:40
(SPA) Success of Minera Antamina: Based on an Integrated Planning Framework Juan Escala, Cía. Minera Antamina, Peru
11:00
(SPA) The Path Towards and IOC in Anglo American Copper Fernando Romero, Gustavo Arriagada and Rodrigo Subiabre, Anglo American, Chile
11:20
(SPA) Genetic Algorithm´s Application on Strategic Mine Planning, a Copper Mine Case Marcelo Arancibia, Maptek, Chile
11:40
(SPA) U-Fo: An Innovative Successful Case of Geological Resource Assessment on Gold Deposits Under Complex Geometries F. Navarro, M. Garrido, C. González, D. Baeza, F. Soto and A. Egaña, Minining Department; Advanced Laboratory for Geostatistical Supercomputing; Advanced Mining Technology Center, Universidad de Chile; D. Herreros and M. Valencia, Yamana Gold, Chile
12:00
(SPA) Risk assessment of Mining Production Plans through Logistic Regression Raúl Castro, AMTC, Universidad de Chile; Francisco Armijo and Álvaro Altamirano, BCTEC Ingeniería y Tecnología, Chile
12:20
(SPA) Strategic Planning with Robust Design in Mining
María Pía Hernández and Cristian Poblete, Dassault Systèmes – GEOVIA, Chile
12:40-14:00 Lunch Poolside Terrace
BALLROOM A & B
Discussion Panel
Chair: Rodrigo Subiabre, Asset Director Collahuasi, and Vice President Business Improvement and Operational Strategy – Copper, Anglo American, Chile
14:00
Challenges and Opportunities for the Mining Industry to Achieve Operational Excellence
  • Sebastián Conde, Professor, Academic Director, Organizational Engineering Center, Department of Industrial Engineering, Universidad de Chile
  • Sergio Jarpa, Technical Vice President, Marubeni LP Holding, Chile
  • Juan Rojas, Corporate Manager - Productivity, Costs and Excellence, Codelco, Chile
  • Mauro Valdés, President, National Mining Program, Corporación de Fomento de la Producción (CORFO), Chile
BALLROOM A & B
Closing Ceremony
15:50
Conference Balance and Final Comments
  • Carlos Barahona, Minexcellence 2016 Executive Director, Gecamin, Chile
  • Alice Clark, Minexcellence 2016 Co-Chair; Director - Production Centres, Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland, Australia
  • Laura Mottola, Minexcellence 2016 Chair; President and CEO, Flow Partners, Canada
  • Rodrigo Subiabre, Minexcellence 2016 Chair; Asset Director Collahuasi, and Vice President Business Improvement and Operational Strategy-Copper, Anglo American, Chile
16:00 - 17:00 Cheese & Wine. Foyer
BALLROOM Foyer
Poster Presentation
On the Adoption of Relational Contracts in the Mining Industry Carolina Rojas, Luis Alarcón and Cristóbal Baladrón, Department of Construction Engineering and Management; José Luis Salvatierra, GEPUC, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile