Sedgman Coal
Meeting client needs with superior processing and materials handling technologies has placed Sedgman at the forefront of new global coal mining development and operations.
Since our inception in 1979, Sedgman has accumulated significant intellectual property resources through resident professional staff whose expertise is continually enhanced by exposure to Sedgman resource industry projects world wide.
Their professional expertise in all relevant engineering, design and drafting disciplines, and their continual exposure to leading edge technologies, in turn sustain Sedgman's commitment to the optimisation of our clients' coal treatment and handling operations.
Today, our success and performance is underpinned by one of the largest coal-specific engineering workforces in the world.
The stability, loyalty and continuity of our professional staff has permitted Sedgman's active involvement in many of the major new coal processing facilities developed over the past 15 years.
We are also involved in modifying existing plants, incorporating latest know-how, utilising the strength of our in-house engineering and design resources.
EXPERTISE
The very essence of our corporate philosophy is to tailor products and services that provide the most cost-efficient solutions to each and every client's needs, whether they relate to conceptual studies or complex projects.
Based on client requirements and our experience with many proven configurations, Sedgman can provide complete modular facilities, or auxiliary circuits linked to client-owned plant to increase output, decrease operating costs, upgrade quality and manage asset and labour needs.
Clients trust us to operate and manage their plants through long-term contracts. In turn they are rewarded by performance that exceeds industry benchmarks.
ENGINEERING
We have the capacity and capability to provide comprehensive professional engineering services to the largest mining clients - at the same time, we emphasise the importance of our smaller clients, who can benefit from the wide range of available expertise in:
CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT
- Coal quality and resource assessments
- Bore core evaluations and interpretations of coal properties
- Coal sampling co-ordination and analysis
- Concept options development
- Initial capital estimates ± 25-35%
FEASIBILITY INVESTIGATION
- Pre-feasibility, trade-off and feasibility studies
- Metallurgical evaluation and process flowsheets design
- Mine development and throughput optimisation
- Materials handling and surface layout optimisation
- Capital and operating cost estimates ± 15-20%
PROJECT DEFINITION / DETAILED DESIGN
- Complete, multi-disciplinary design & drafting services with 3D CAD capabilities
- Technical evaluations and recommendations
- Project programme and scheduling
- Flexible delivery strategy mechanisms
CONSTRUCTION
- Generation of construction drawings and equipment specifications
- Project management and procurement services
- Cost and planning engineering
- Construction management, site supervision and safety management
- Plant commissioning and performance testing
Our Engineering Business Units are:
OPERATIONS
END-TO-END OPERATIONS SERVICE OPTIONS
- Build, own and operate (BOO) or build and operate
- Contract operations
- Handling and processing operations management
- Health, Safety and Environment management
- Maintenance planning
- Process control and optimisation, data acquisition and plant de-bottlenecking
- Coal quality management – ROM to shipping
MANAGEMENT SERVICES
Our Operations Business Unit looks after your investment. With experienced operators, site managers and asset managers backed by Sedgman's wealth of experience, we provide a complete operations management service comprising:
- Contract plant operation
- Safety management
- Environmental management
- Asset management
- Operations support.
Whatever the size of the project, Sedgman has the proven capability and experience to tailor equipment to clients' needs and specifications.
WHY CLIENTS USE SEDGMAN FOR COAL OPERATIONS
- Operational safety
- Proven track record – meets or exceed annual budget throughput and product tonnes
- Design drivers integrated into operations to ensure optimisation of output performance
- Availability – annual run hours above industry standard
- Focus on process efficiency
- Operational support across all engineering disciplines with focus on continuous improvement
- Exemplary industrial relations record
- Cost minimisation via proactive maintenance planning – the cycle
- Operating cost risk profile minimised
- Independent CHPP specialist contractor separate from mining
- experienced CHPP operators and managers for plant start ups
The aim is always to plan and operate plants with the same enviable level of performance, safety and efficiency, whether Sedgman owns them, or we provide a contracted service to clients.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE
Our competitive advantage is based on our absolute focus on client needs and adapting our solutions to resolve them. Our comprehensive services feature:
- A flexible, proactive approach to client requirements
- High quality, cost effective and timely coal preparation and handling solutions
- Conceptual project definition
- Coal sample test work planning and supervision
- Scoping pre-feasibility and feasibility studies through to bankable or definitive level
- CHPP and associated infrastructure design
- Design optimisation and new technology evaluation
- Procurement and logistics
- Design and construction focus on safety
- Construction of CHPP and support infrastructure
- Electrical and process control engineering
- Commissioning
- Process and performance guarantees
- Administration support services
- Ongoing consultancy
- Ongoing operation if desired
SAFETY
Sedgman's Engineering Technical Safety in Design Procedure incorporates the implementation of risk assessment and hazard identification methods integrally in the plants we design to eliminate or minimise the risks of injury throughout the life of the plant.
It encompasses all design including facilities, hardware, systems, equipment, products, tooling, materials, energy controls, layout and configuration.
Having a Safety in Design process in place ensures avoidance of rework as a result of any incorrect assumptions around design requirements.
It provides a contribution to the goal of a workplace free from injury from both the client and Sedgman perspectives during operation.
It ensures all elements across the plant lifecycle perform in a safe manner and it allows documentation and communication to internal and external stakeholders of safe design approaches.
Safety management and operator training is a key factor in Sedgman's approach to operations and project delivery.
Sedgman is totally committed to the principle that all workplace injuries and illnesses can be prevented. The Sedgman Safety Management System complies with and conforms to:
- Coal Mining Safety and Health Act and Regulations (Qld)(CMSHR);
- AS1470 Health and Safety at Work, Principles and Practices;
- AS4360 Risk Management.
Sedgman's training system complies with the requirements of the CMSHR and will meet the needs of the coal industry training package.
The Sedgman training system is developed around the MNC04 Coal Training Package and competency based assessment and training. As Sedgman is aligned with a registered training authority (Sharp Training), we have the capability to train and assess personnel to the national standards.
INNOVATION
Sedgman has built its reputation by applying its industry knowledge to develop innovative CHPP concepts and designs. Our ongoing innovation and research embodies our commitment to always finding the best possible process. Sedgman has developed technologies and applications that deliver optimised services and products to our clients. Our technology developments have been across the range of engineering services from estimating, through to procurement and project management to detailed design and drafting.
Sedgman's innovations include:
Coal Prep - a software package used to model and simulate coal preparation plant performance. The Coal Prep software tool is used from project feasibility evaluation to final design to ensure that plant design and product mix optimises capital costs and product yield
Sedgman Administration System (SAS) - an integrated estimating, project controls and job costing system compiling information on past and current design components and costs. The SAS also includes an integrated design management module to budget and monitor design hours and drafting progress
Computer Aided Drafting - Sedgman was an earliest user of three dimensional computer aided drafting (CAD) technology. We have developed our own 3D surface modelling and plant design systems and tools based on the AutoCAD computer aided drafting platform
SCORS - SCORS (Sedgman Coal Operations Reporting System) is a production monitoring and reporting system developed for Sedgman's multiple-contract operations of CHPPs. SCORS is an innovative system built specifically to address the shortcoming of traditional procedures and "work-arounds" and the absence of a commercially-available product. SCORS delivers Sedgman a world-class information repository and reporting system built on the four principles of scalability, data integrity, security and audit ability. Data feeds into the repository can come from any number of disparate production systems such as SCADA, scheduling and maintenance systems, spreadsheets and manually-entered sources. The reporting system provides for single or multi-site formalised management reporting, operations level reporting, and scheduled reporting for external clients.
SCORS has enabled the realisation of several innovations to sustain continuous improvement in processes and plant operations across remote regional facilities... real-time data made into real-time information for real-time decision making. SCORS integrates existing production data systems, providing an improved capacity to monitor and report on production data. SCORS is a valuable tool for both site staff and off-site support as it can assist a control room operator to run a stockpile quality report as well as remotely monitor KPI dashboards of operating sites around the world.