AMOG Consulting - Specialist Mining Engineering Services

ISO 9001:2008-certified AMOG Consulting is a specialist engineering consultancy, offering leading solutions to the international mining market from its bases in Australia and the US. We work to form close relationships where we can deliver our specialist engineering skills to reduce technical risk and complexity, and the overall cost of ownership for our clients.

We provide outstanding value to our clients through the application of our deep skills and knowledge in scientific and engineering principles to produce the best possible solution within available cost and time constraints, while providing a professionally stimulating and rewarding place of work for our employees.

Bulk ore handling equipment integrity management

AMOG can assist designers and operators of bulk ore handling equipment with the management of machine integrity through all stages of the equipment lifecycle. AMOG's services include strength analysis, load duty assessment, fatigue assessment, AS 4324 Appendix K audits, plant integrity reviews, damage assessment and rectification, and life extension studies.

Our analysis and design services applied to bulk ore handling equipment include:

• Linear and non-linear finite element analysis (FEA)
• Load case and load spectrum definition
• Joint cracking and fracture analyses
• Strength and fatigue assessment to AS 4324, ISO 5049, FEM and DIN 22261 codes
• Pushover and collapse analysis
• Instrumentation of machine dynamics
• Computer-based training of machine operators
• Plant integrity reviews (PIR)

Failure investigations and expert witness services for mining equipment

AMOG has a long track record of conducting failure investigations and expert witness work for bulk material handling machine-related accidents and failures. Our team has the high-level analytical and engineering expertise to coordinate and conduct failure investigations, including root cause analysis, pushover analysis, joint cracking and fracture analysis, and post-plastic deformation assessment.

Mine site and equipment safety and risk engineering

AMOG can conduct a wide range of HSE and risk activities across all phases of mine and equipment lifecycles. Our safety engineering services include the development of site / machine safety cases, conducting HAZOP / HAZID workshops, qualitative and quantitative risk assessments, SIL assessments, analytical consequence modelling, and specialist safety studies such as fire, blast and smoke / plume modelling. Whatever the application, AMOG can support your regulatory and corporate obligations for safety and risk.

We offer the following safety engineering services:

• Safety case development
• Safety management system development
• Major hazard facility audit
• Fire and blast analysis and protective system design
• Toxic plume spread (smoke, exhaust and chemical)
• HAZID, HAZAN, HAZOP, SIL assessment, FMEA / FMECA and other analysis techniques
• Software assurance
• Training
• Hazard tracking systems

Hazard identification, tracking and management tool for the mining industry

AMOG has designed and developed SITREP, a sophisticated hazard identification, tracking and management tool, designed to capture hazard data in real-time, from anywhere and at any time. Based around a powerful architecture, SITREP provides maximum flexibility to manage the most demanding safety problems. SITREP is commercially available.

Mine system safety management and engineering master-class programmes

AMOG delivers specialised system safety management and engineering master-class programmes. These are delivered through our Engineers Education Australia (EEA) public course offerings or we can deliver on-site specialist courses on request.