Idle plant, broken haul cycles, crews waiting on access. Productivity is lost in small pieces across a shift, and each piece costs money. Background observes the work, reads it against the plan and tells the person who can recover it today.
The new BSI specification, sponsored by the ICE and the Department for Transport.
Commercial valueBackground supplies evidence for the system you already run. It does not certify you, and it does not replace your own processes.
Understand the drivers that boost or restrict productivity
Observed evidence of where time is lost, by activity and by cause
Measure productivity and keep improving it
Output against plan, shift by shift, from observation rather than estimate
Embed it in existing reporting and assurance
Findings delivered into the channels and reports teams already use
The excavator has stood for 30 minutes waiting on a vehicle and the haul turnaround has stretched to two hours. Read against the programme, today finishes about 36 m³ short. There is still a shift to recover it.