i — Extractive
Mining
Copper, large-scale operations. Reliability engineering on critical equipment, maintenance plans, and plant start-up and shutdown processes.
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Consulting & Engineering · Chile
From the mining north
to industrial Patagonia,
and beyond.
Reliability engineering, asset management, projects and services for mining, energy and petrochemicals. Proprietary methodologies and international experience, applied where it matters most: the continuity of your operation.
Base
Santiago, Chile
Sectors
03
Disciplines
04
Reach
Global
The starting point
01.0When failures or accidents repeat, the questions are the same.
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Why did the accident happen if it was a known job and the experience was there?
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Why did this equipment fail again?
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Why did we shut the plant down this week?
Failures or accidents are rarely random. The root cause usually lives in the definition, systematization or execution of a plan — not in the equipment. That is where our work begins.
How we work
02.0Four phases. One operation that learns.
A proven sequence that runs from diagnosis through monitoring, with no missing steps between consulting and the real operation.
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Diagnosis
Reliability and criticality analysis on the equipment, processes and procedures that sustain the operation.
Planning
Plans redesigned with clear technical procedures, assigned criticality and metrics that are measured in real time.
Implementation
Rolled out alongside the client's team. The plan gets internalized; it doesn't end up in a PMO folder.
Monitoring
Continuous prediction and verification. Every anomaly or deviation, however small, before the failure updates the monitoring of the plan — not just the closing report.
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01.0
Diagnosis
Reliability and criticality analysis on the equipment, processes and procedures that sustain the operation.
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02.0
Planning
Plans redesigned with clear technical procedures, assigned criticality and real-time metrics.
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03.0
Implementation
Rolled out alongside the client's team. The plan gets internalized; it doesn't end up in a PMO folder.
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04.0
Monitoring
Continuous prediction and verification. Every anomaly or deviation, however small, before the failure updates the monitoring of the plan — not just the closing report.
In figures
03.0An alliance with real mileage.
The individual experience of NPGA's people adds up to decades on real ground: extractive mining, petrochemicals and industrial projects across five continents — Chile, Canada, the United States, New Zealand, Egypt, Trinidad & Tobago and China.
+35
Years of experience
Accumulated by owners and partners across world-class operations.
+180
Significant projects
Participation in projects critical to operational continuity.
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Global field engagements
On-the-ground work in Chile, Canada, the United States, New Zealand, Egypt, Trinidad & Tobago, and China.
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Our philosophy
“Cada proyecto merece el mismo rigor técnico y humano que aprendimos en las operaciones más exigentes del mundo.”
Every project deserves the same technical and human rigor we learned in the world's most demanding operations.
Sectors we serve
05.0Where continuity is not optional.
ii — Systems
Energy
Generation, transmission and process plants. Assets whose downtime cascades into the rest of the country's productive system.
iii — Process
Petrochemicals
Plants with intrinsic risk where the cost of failure is measured in people, not just production. International operational standards adapted to local context.
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Let's talk
06.0If the operation is failing, the right questions are half the work.
A first conversation, with no commitment, about where your losses are and how they look alongside the questions our team asks.