Founded in 2018, Tau SJV is a professional services consultancy with two business units, i.e., physical asset management and commodities, jointly providing value-adding business solutions covering the entire “mine-to-market” value chain for Mining and Mineral Processing clients.
Our physical asset management business unit specialises in the development and implementation of asset
management strategies, reliability engineering consulting and advanced data analytics services, delivering
sustainable value that supports our clients' business strategy.
We help elevate our clients from
fire-fighting to higher levels of maintenance maturity by improving their asset availability, reliability
and production efficiency whilst reducing unplanned downtime, safety and environmental risks, and asset life
cycle costs.
We conduct an in-depth needs analysis to understand your operating context, challenge(s)
faced and strategic objectives. Leveraging our deep expertise in reliability and maintenance engineering, we
develop and implement superior solutions addressing your operational challenges.
Our expertise span over
several industries, including - mining, mineral processing, cement, manufacturing, chemicals, pulp and
paper, and public services.
We translate your corporate strategic objectives into an asset management (AM)
objectives and develop your asset management strategy that supports the business strategy.
We
implement key tactical and supporting elements needed to build the foundation for your maintenance
function to advance to big data analytics.
We leverage leading CMMS/ EAMS and Big Data technologies to monitor, gather, and analyse asset performance data providing you with actionable insights prior to costly unplanned failures occurring. Shift from reactive to a pro-active approach and reach higher maintenance and operational excellence.
Our commodities business unit specialises in strategic marketing & trading our clients' products to diverse international clientele, thereby, opening-up various markets to generate revenue for our clients. In turn, our clients generate more capital to invest in operational growth projects and social development programs in the communities in which they operate.
We provide our clients with cost-competitive outbound logistics solutions, handling every aspect of logistics from pit-to-port.
We develop strategic marketing plans, conduct business development activities, build and maintain client relationships in key markets.
We provide physical and derivatives trading (futures and options) of client's commodities to diverse end-users in target markets.
Tau SJV is a professional services provider of physical asset management, commodities marketing and trade solutions covering the mine-to-market value chain. Key challenges we are solving for across asset-intensive industries include high unplanned downtime and maintenance costs, productivity losses, health, safety and environmental risks, amongst several others. Our integrated reliability engineering and advanced data analytics offering can resolve most of these challenges and assist businesses to eliminate unplanned downtime & optimise costs, improve productivity & energy efficiency, lower health, environment and safety risks through our risk-based approach. Our core focus is to collaborate with and help asset owners unlock the potential and extract maximum value assets in a manner that supports business strategy.
To be recognised as a leading provider of asset management solutions that deliver sustainable value by our clients through maximising asset availability and productivity at the lowest life cycle cost.
To provide our clients with professional advisory services on maintenance best practices, including implementation of business-aligned asset maintenance strategies, tactical reliability engineering and enabling elements to reduce unplanned downtime and optimise operational efficiency and costs. We strive to expand our services locally and continentally.
Superior Customer Service - we are committed to meeting and exceeding our client's
expectations by delivering quality services.
Integrity - a guiding principle that we live by and shared with our strategic
partners in all our client engagements.
Innovation - we strive to grow through innovation and continuously improve our
offerings for our client's benefit.
Accountability - our unwavering commitment to consistently deliver what we
promised.
We have a lucid approach towards problem definition, solution development and implementation, formulated on these guidelines: problem definition / needs analysis, solution development, and implementation.
Central to our approach and engagement with clients and business partners is building long-term relationships and collaboration to deliver innovative and impactful solutions that are expertly tailored to address the unique needs and challenges our clients face.
Our asset management lead is a seasoned mechanical engineer, management consultant and professional project manager with nearly 20 years industry experience and a proven track record in the management and delivery of asset management engagements in Mining, Mineral Processing, Cement, Steel, Energy and Manufacturing industries. Backed by expertise in strategy development and implementation, asset management plans, reliability centred maintenance (RCM) & asset maintenance tactics, root cause analysis (RCA), asset performance management (APM), condition monitoring, maintenance spend analysis and asset life cycle cost optimisation. We have a team of experienced professionals within asset-intensive industries that are ready to tackle your challenges and strategic technology partners with whom we collaborate to provide you with holistic solutions that deliver sustainable value for your business.
With over 20 years in the mining industry, our commodities team has demonstrated exceptional performance and expertise in running export commodities trading offices for major international commodity producers and traders. Expertise with opening and leading an international trading office, opening up new export markets, record-breaking delivery of commodities to diversified client base across Europe, Asia, South America, Middle East, India and Northern Africa. For your requirements related strategic marketing plan, market trends analysis, sea-borne & paper trading, new business development, logistics advisory and client relationship management, Tau Commodities is your partner.
Physical Asset Management & Commodities
The Firs, Biermann Ave Rosebank, Johannesburg, 2196
info@tausjv.com
CMRP, PMP, MBA, M.Eng.