Our solutions provide frontline leaders with clear, prioritised and actionable recommendations that help our customers move faster, act smarter and keep the operation running at its best.
Operations
Achieving your operation's full potential
Remove constraints and deliver full potential in the day of operations by continuously reassessing plans and identifying trade-offs in light of actual performance and emergent disruptions and constraints on availability of equipment, components and labour.
What we do
Frontline leaders in operational businesses make hundreds of decisions every day - managing disruptions, allocating resources and responding to changing conditions in real time.
Cobalt helps leaders make these decisions proactively, rather than reactively - accelerating decision-making to match the velocity of the operation, and optimising high-impact calls based on the available data.
By surfacing risks and operations in the Day of Operations, our Day of Operations decision augmentation tool unlocks capacity and offsets risks before they cost you.
What you can expect
Ongoing re-optimisation of highest-impact trade-offs based on actual conditions
Proactive identification of constraints before they impact availability, utilisation or rate
Augmented flow of data for key in-field leadership routines
Operations
Maintenance
Decisions that balance opportunity cost of operating, risk and cost of maintenance
Continuously re-optimise planned work trading off opportunity cost, risk of failure and cost of maintenance - subject to resource constraints and incorporating learning from decision inputs/outputs.
What we do
Every maintenance decision carries a trade-off — act too early and you waste cost and labour, too late and you risk failure and lost production. Cobalt continuously re-evaluates your planned work against live operational data, identifying where to bring work forward, defer it, or investigate further.
What you can expect
Continuous re-optimisation of planned work balancing opportunity cost, failure risk and maintenance cost
Task list loading optimised against real resource constraints — workshop capacity, parts availability and labour
Task content recommendations informed by ongoing safety and productivity feedback
Operations
Supply Chain
Risk-based supply chain decision-making
True risk-based inventory optimisation and ongoing assessment of purchase requisitions and orders against physical plans and financial budget.
What we do
Running out of a critical part drives material costs in operational businesses - particularly where operational and maintenance plans have not been refreshed to reflect the constraint. Yet most inventory and in-bound logistics decision-making is still based on simplistic and arbitrary risk ratings and historical turn data.
Cobalt’s supply chain decision augmentation tool replaces traditional decision-making with a value-based approach, grounded in the reality of your physical value chain - optimising inventory against real maintenance schedules, production risk, vendor lead times and vendor-held inventory - so you carry less of what you don’t need and more of what matters.
What you can expect
Risk-based inventory optimisation informed by maintenance schedules, production risk and vendor data
Reduced total inventory carrying cost without compromising operational readiness
Ongoing assessment of purchase requisitions and orders against physical plans and financial budgets
Value-based decisions on what to hold, what to release and when to reorder
Operations
Safety
Safety leadership focused where it matters most.
Proactively drive critical control verifications, personnel allocation and leadership activity based on the actual risks of scheduled work, the actual skillsets and experience of the allocated workforce, not just historical trends.
What we do
Most safety programs are reactive - based on historical incident data and periodic campaigns. They focus on what you have data for, not necessarily where the real forward risk is.
Cobalt looks forward, not back. Our Safety decision augmentation tool analyses your forward schedule and task content, workforce capabilities and experience and physical work site context as well as historical trends to surface where the real risks lie - before they become incidents. It helps leaders focus where their attention is directed, so critical control verifications and work area audits land where they drive the greatest risk reduction.
What you can expect
Proactive identification of high potential risks in your forward work profile
Critical control verification and personnel allocation recommendations based on actual scheduled risk
Improved quality of in-field risk assessments using live site photographs, task history and skill data
Operations
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