Hatch Ltd. services

Modeling and optimization solutions—Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Operations Research (OR)—are very powerful technologies that can add tremendous value to companies, but their successful adoption is still a challenge.

Unleash the full potential of your assets and organization; It`s essential that capital projects and asset portfolios achieve their objectives, deliver on expectations, and help you realize your long-term vision. Whether you’re looking to capitalize on the full transformative power of digitization, recapture eroding margins, take advantage of shifting market conditions, manage risks more holistically, conduct a successful transaction, or ensure your operations reach nameplate capacity faster, your ultimate goal is to create and secure value for your organization.

While health and safety is still the most critical, the traditional challenges facing construction management are changing. As stakeholders and funding companies demand faster returns for their significant capital investments, organizations are under pressure to get the job done quicker. Much of the burden is falling on construction teams. Construction managers and their teams have to find savings opportunities early in the project life cycles. They have to build programs that both support, and are supported by, engineering and procurement. This is the most ideal scenario, but many times the construction management team is brought in too late. If they can`t find innovative ways to integrate into the project and prevent costly rework, cost and schedule are compromised.

Water. The essence of life. A critical resource shared by people, places and things. Careful, intentional management of its quality and volume in industrial processes and urban infrastructure is our responsibility, and it`s a huge one. We need to do everything we can to be sure water is returned—clean, safe and abundant—to the natural systems that sustain us.

Everything is related. Siloed thinking has kept us focusing on one problem at a time, not considering how issues interact. Globally, cities have lost confidence in their infrastructure due to deferred maintenance, underinvestment, poor planning, and changing political agendas.

Competing factors such as cost, the environment, safety, and technical viability are at the forefront of thinking when today`s mining organizations are investing in new tailings systems or retrofitting existing ones. The process-water lock-up and increasing land take needed by conventional tailings management are pushing us to find more advanced systems, such as paste and filtered tailings. These new methods are designed to maximize water recovery and minimize our environmental footprint. But the capacity of these measures is constrained significantly now. More work is needed to make them suitable for today`s modern mining operations.

For many years, our clients have been focused on volume—getting tonnages through gates. But the days of ever-greater quantities and always-bigger tools are over.

Across the metals, energy, and infrastructure sectors, stakeholders are becoming more ecologically aware. Communities and governments are demanding higher environmental standards. Global expansion of the extractive and energy sectors, coupled with the consolidation of ownership and assets, has made development projects more visible. This has triggered growing interest, demands, and assertiveness by host governments, communities, investors, and civil society organizations, especially when the environment is at risk.

Remote resource deposits. Rapid urbanization. Energy crises. Water scarcity. The world is facing global challenges that need to be addressed in new, innovative ways. These issues must be solved while balancing serious, long-term environmental issues of sustainability and climate change. Creative engineering solutions can address these complex global challenges, but finding and using them requires a commitment to new, smarter designs. Best practices for safety and efficiency must be factored into the process to help you achieve unprecedented business results, and create real, substantial change in our world. Smarter, more efficient solutions through advanced engineering are no longer just important business drivers – they are a global imperative. Because the world needs smarter solutions, now.

Never has it been more important for businesses to work collaboratively with their host communities and truly engage the people who live in them. A successful project needs to do more than deliver its intended purpose to the owner company. It needs to provide real, tangible socioeconomic benefits for the surrounding community. It has to wholeheartedly embrace the mantra of leaving it better than we found it, ensuring that a brighter future for the lives it affects is an imperative.