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End-to-End Digital Ore Flow Accounting: From the Block to the Crusher

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Obtaining reliable, end-to-end data on ore flow is a critical function for any mineral resource company. This data underpins key business decisions, including the valuation of mineral reserves by site and deposit, total extraction volumes and grades, potential in-situ losses during mining and re-evaluation, and the actual availability of ore for downstream processing. However, traditional paper-based record-keeping systems fall short of establishing a dependable link between mining operations and processing plants—often at a significant financial cost. How Ore Flow Is Currently Tracked Ore flow accounting is performed across multiple operational stages, including: appraising explored and newly discovered resources; estimating reserves prior to extraction; adjusting for losses incurred during haulage and handling; assessing ore prepared for blasting and fragmentation, among others. In practice, the same data points are often recorded manually in several separate paper log...
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How to Set Up Production Record-Keeping in 10 Minutes Using a Log Sheet System

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In manufacturing operations — especially discrete manufacturing, which is a multi-stage process involving several different departments — information about production balances, defect volumes, and output quantities is often not tracked systematically. This creates difficulties in record-keeping and in obtaining reliable information about the production process as a whole.Digital platforms such as logsheet.ai exist specifically to close this gap.  To eliminate the record-keeping chaos that disrupts a company's operations and prevents effective management decisions, raw material and finished goods movements need to be logged at a set frequency. Let's look at how this can be done using digital platforms. Why Production Record-Keeping Matters Production record-keeping is the foundation for any decision-making at a company, and here's why: It gives management a complete picture of production without requiring their physical presence on the shop floor. It provides the ...
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Why Checklists Fail: 5 Key Reasons Boxes Get Checked but Quality Doesn't Improve

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In quality management systems, checklists are widely regarded as a primary tool for risk identification. They help evaluate technological processes across quantitative and qualitative metrics, equipment condition, and occupational safety. Yet despite having checklists in place at every stage of production, downtime and accidents still occur. The root cause? Not the checklists themselves, but how they're used. Let's explore how to avoid checklist pitfalls, using the example of an ExxonMobil subsidiary and its implementation of the logsheet.ai electronic platform. Management had grown frustrated by a lack of visibility into real performance indicators—everything looked flawless on paper, but equipment failures were happening far too often. A closer examination uncovered several significant—yet entirely fixable—issues. 1. Ritualistic Filling Problem: The first issue we encountered when reviewing the workflow was that employees were checking items not against actual readings, ...
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5 digital platforms to simplify shift handovers on the production floor

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In continuous production environments, shift handovers require completing various logs that capture critical process parameters, equipment failures, and operator decisions. To ensure the incoming team can start work immediately without missing any prior incidents or updates, they must review the recorded information from the previous shift. When this process relies on manual paper logs, it consumes valuable time, inevitably delaying the start of core operational duties. However, as digital transformation continues to replace traditional paper-based workflows, shift handovers can now be managed far more efficiently through specialized digital services. These solutions drastically reduce the time spent on documentation while significantly improving transparency and overall process control. Below, we explore some of the most effective tools currently available. logsheet.ai Official website: logsheet.ai Subscription fee: $99 per month, covering a team of up to 30 employees. Logsheet.ai com...
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Shift handover

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When one shift ends and another begins at a continuous-cycle facility—where production runs non-stop from the moment raw materials are supplied until finished goods are produced—it’s essential to hand over production control carefully, without missing any important steps. Electronic alternatives like logsheet.ai eliminate the need for specialists from both shifts to be physically present at the site at the same time and reduce the time spent filling out logs and checklists. Time Consumption Typically, the shift handover time is set by the employer in consultation with the trade union (if one exists) and does not exceed 30 minutes. The duration of this process is influenced by: the volume of operational documentation, the amount of equipment involved in the process, and other factors. To comply with legal requirements that all overtime work be compensated, employers must schedule overlapping shifts, allowing one shift to pass information to the next without exceeding its regular workin...
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A $3,000 Dashboard or a $0.30 AI Report? When You May Not Need Full BI

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  The traditional way to build management dashboards is well known. First, a company chooses a BI platform such as Power BI, Tableau, DataLens, or another visualization tool. Then it builds a data warehouse where information from operational systems can be collected, cleaned, transformed, and aggregated. After that, data marts are created, calculations are implemented, scheduled data uploads are configured, and dashboards are designed on top of the resulting structure. Eventually, management gets a polished dashboard with charts, filters, tabs, and indicators. This approach works. It is still the industry standard, and an entire implementation market has grown around it: BI vendors, consultants, integrators, analysts, and data engineers. But while building Logsheet.ai , our production log sheet platform, we faced a practical question. We needed dashboards. We had two options: Build a conventional BI layer with a warehouse, data marts, integrations, and custom dashboard development....
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What Fields Should Be Included in a Production Shift Report Template

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 A production shift report is only useful when it captures the right information. Many factories already ask operators and supervisors to fill in daily reports, production logs, or shift handover notes. But the structure of these reports is often unclear. Some reports include only quantities. Some focus on downtime. Some are mostly free-text comments. Some contain too many fields, so people skip them or fill them in quickly without detail. A good production shift report template should be simple enough to use during a busy shift, but structured enough to support management decisions later. The goal is not to collect more information for the sake of reporting. The goal is to collect the information that helps the team understand what happened, why it happened, and what should be improved. Why the structure of a shift report matters A shift report connects the factory floor with management. Operators and supervisors see what happens during production. Managers need to understand patt...
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