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At the heart of economies are the complex systems that extract, convert and transport raw materials, or create finished products. Whether it’s for a brownfield or greenfield site, process and industrial systems play a crucial role in optimising production and improving efficiency.
Aurecon partners with clients throughout the entire lifecycle of their assets, from idea to operations. Our approach centres on balancing complex business problems when physical assets are core to our clients’ businesses. This requires deep technical understanding of asset operations, and the way value is created and maintained. The concept of value is as unique to each organisation as its asset base.
Responding to changing global markets, decarbonisation challenges, supply chain disruptions and rigorous stakeholder and community expectations requires asset optimisation. This may be in the form of revenue, productivity, safety performance, reliability, sustainability or social licence to operate.
Through our global reach, we offer clients an extensive resource base with a unique breadth of local knowledge combined with advanced technical capability.
Figure 1: Lifecycle of infrastructure and asset management services.
In today’s complex environment, organisations are looking to extract value from investment decisions today and into the future.
Against this backdrop, our teams are designing, upgrading, sustaining, and maintaining process and industrial systems that flex and adapt to changing business, market and climate drivers. We take ownership of our client’s challenges.
We partner with clients to bring ideas and knowledge to their current and future operations. This is achieved with process-led solutions that are supported by Aurecon’s broader capabilities in government liaison, regulatory approvals, environment and planning, process safety, community and stakeholder management, and integrated transport.
Our differentiator is integrated expertise delivering technically led services that empower clients to make well-informed asset investment decisions.
At its core, process and industrial systems are focused on delivering productivity gains for organisations. By optimising processes and systems, we assist our clients to increase efficiency, reduce waste, and obtain long-term asset value. This can be achieved through a range of approaches including process simulation, control systems design, and advanced data analytics.
In addition, our solutions are focused on sustainment of asset performance and process safety. By ensuring that industrial systems are well-maintained and operate reliably and safely, organisations can minimise downtime, mitigate major hazards and material risk, and provide assurance of meeting the needs of their customers, the environment and communities.
As markets navigate the challenges posed by climate change, process and industrial systems are increasingly important in helping organisations to decarbonise by operating more efficiently and sustainably. This also assists in the support of new job and industry creation, and economic growth, in regional communities connected with industrial activity.
Every organisation is different, which is why we tailor solutions to the specific needs of each client. Analysis of the whole value chain applicable to a client’s business is understood to inform our investment advice, and asset design and delivery.
Once the merit of investment options is understood, and capital investment calculated, we accurately design, deliver and oversee operations to work towards optimising value chains upstream and downstream.
This ranges from large, bespoke, multi-region projects to minor capital works at a single facility, process, or machine level. How we deliver differently is by focusing on sustainable long-term growth with visibility and management of the material risks associated with designing assets and being able to optimise their operations throughout their entire lifecycle.
This approach also enables Aurecon to conduct a higher level of design for complex and bespoke process and industrial systems. Able to specify designs, to a higher level of design than the benchmark industry standard, means we produce deeper designs that secure greater efficiencies of assets by extending their lifecycle, reducing long-term maintenance and achieving optimal performance levels.
Aurecon’s wealth of knowledge and experience of process and industrial systems extends across all the markets in which we operate. Our project experience equips us with the necessary skills and ability to bring these systems to life so they operate efficiently, economically, safely and sustainably. We are your trusted partners throughout the entire lifecycle of an asset.
Hydrogen, ammonia, chemicals, food and beverage and diary, manufacturing, emerging and rare earth minerals, base and precious metals, clean molecular energy, water and wastewater
Compressors, pumps, piping, columns, reactors, vessels, heat exchangers, storage tanks, tank farms
Conveyers, transfer chutes, hoppers, bins, stockpiles, feeders, grinders
Moving architecture, ship loaders, stackers, reclaimers, car dumpers, train loaders
Instrumentation, electrical and controls, automation, descriptive to prescriptive analytics, digital twins, dynamic simulation, industrial mathematics, decision support applications
Safety management systems, material and major hazard risk management, human factors, reliability, asset assurance
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