Evan Connell — Sector / Mining

You maintain iron for thirty years. The technology shouldn’t be what fails first.

Technology lifecycle, infrastructure longevity, and digital sustainability — brought to mining operations, control rooms, and the people who keep them running.

Field note Asset 01
Rebuilt, not replaced. The machine outlives three rounds of its own software.
Asset classHeavy mobile plant
Service life20–30 years
Control systemLegacy SCADA / OT
StatusOperational
§ Observation 01 / 03

A site will rebuild a haul truck three times before it lets it go. The same discipline rarely reaches the technology that runs it.

Mining is built on getting decades out of expensive things — through maintenance schedules, rebuilds, and parts kept long past their first life. It is one of the few industries that treats longevity as an operating principle rather than a slogan.

Yet the control systems, site IT, and communications underneath those assets get retired on a vendor's calendar, not on their condition. The cost, the downtime, and the e-waste of that churn are avoidable. The work is applying the maintenance mindset you already trust to the technology layer as well.

§ Practice 02 / 03
Strategy

Operational technology lifecycle

Control systems, site IT, and communications planned to stay useful for longer — assessed on condition and need, not on a supplier's upgrade schedule.

Operations

Breaking forced upgrade cycles

Reducing vendor-driven replacement and the cost, downtime, and integration risk that come with it. Keeping what works, replacing what genuinely needs it.

Sustainability

Digital sustainability across sites

Cutting hardware churn, e-waste, and the carbon embedded in constant replacement — measured against the same reporting your operation already answers to.

Remote ops

Longevity where replacement is hard

Technology decisions that hold up in remote and long-life operations, where a swap-out is never as simple as it looks on a procurement slide.

Speaking

Talks & workshops

Sessions for leadership and technical teams on getting decades, not years, from the technology a site depends on.

§ Booking 03 / 03

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