AAOM Handbook

• Production Drilling • Crushing • Grinding • Power Distribution

Productive Unit

An elements within a Process that can make a separate contribution to the performance of the Process eg different loading/truck fleets within a mine, multiple crushing or grinding circuits within a mineral processing plant. They are the lowest level at which we set separate Performance Targets.

Sustainability

A performance characteristic of a process, indicating the resources/condition(s) available to underpin the continued operation of the process. The measure(s) of Sustainability will vary based on the type of resource or condition being assess. For example; • Goods/Services - quantity of resources available for production (usually expressed as a time period - eg 2 years/months/weeks/days of production), • Asset Integrity - percentage of recognised threats below accepted threshold.

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