Glencore Coal Assets Australia operates 11 CHPP’s and CHF’s across NSW and QLD. Over the years the sites had a number of energy isolation challenges. The business recognised that a more structured, preferably software driven solution was needed for the isolation planning process. There were already 2 standalone examples of this at Glencore’s Hail Creek and Collinsville CHPP’s and a business case was presented and subsequently approved to expand this into the remaining 9 sites.

With such a large number of sites of varying size and complexity, spread across 2 states, significant collaboration was needed between Glencore and Prometheus to ensure a seamless implementation. The project has delivered a robust, reliable and highly auditable work package driven isolation permit solution for Glencore.

• Whole of project management including project execution plans, risk and change management, budget control and project governance
• Stewarding the Process Discovery process and outcomes to ensure all 9 sites were aligned with the system design and enhancements
• Implementation timelines, stage guidance for sites, and stakeholder communications
• Heavy focus on training for site-based end users to ensure sufficient capacity for operations upon implementation

Three key take-away sessions include;

1. Rigorous stakeholder engagement from Glencore IT leadership, through GM’s and site Operations and CHPP management has seen enthusiastic support for the project
2. Wherever possible, create KPI’s and specific target dates, which was not always easy with the highly varied nature of our assets
3. Keep bringing all parties back to the common philosophy that we are doing the same work, with the same people and the same objective, simply using a more sophisticated tool