THE BUSINESS CHALLENGE
Rio Tinto approached Onsite with concerns of rising costs of equipment hire at its world-class alumina refinery at Yarwun. Costs were rising as a result of underutilisation, difficulty locating fleet, and lack of procurement oversight.

ONSITE’S APPROACH

Onsite’s remote monitoring tool, ONtrak, allows Rio Tinto to manage its site equipment hires, logistics and labour requirements resulting in smarter asset utilisation and maximising labour efficiencies.

ONtrak, gives customers real time visibility of on-hire equipment, location, and utilisation hours per day, off-hire/extension requests.

THE BUSINESS ADVANTAGE

“Onsite’s remote monitoring tool, ONtrak, has made a significant impact on our hire equipment utilisation. It’s cut out 90% of unproductive time when looking for assets that have been “acquired” by unauthorised users.” Rio Tinto.

This meant Rio Tinto could prevent unauthorised equipment usage, protect against theft and better utilise equipment.

This gave Rio Tinto the lowest cost of rental, Onsite was able to reduce core fleet on the site by close to 35%.

THE BUSINESS CHALLENGE
RioTinto Yarwun Refinery faced a significant challenge around control of projects specifically with authority, speed compliance, lift compliance and overall accountability of damage & fuel consumption.

With more than 20 Fork lifts in 24/7 operation, used by different workgroups and multiple users, this posed a threat to the company’s ability to mitigate health, safety and cost control risks.

ONSITE’S APPROACH
Onsite Rental Group specialists conducted an Equipment Audit and found that the use of a centralized control module, monitored by one control room would immediately improve the issues. A report with a change-out plan was prepared and Rio Tinto adopted the proposal. The main outcome was that every forklift on the refinery,  was fitted with a control module.

THE BUSINESS ADVANTAGE

The fitted module provided Rio Tinto with the ability to manage who used the unit, the lift capacity, speed, how long the machine was in and out of use, location in the Refinery where they were able to operate and when damage occurred. significantly improving operator safety and accountability.  And the business made cost savings through fuel consumption and better damage control.