Our Story

Founded by Steve Smart, RightTime Technologies is a Perth-based group of technologists with extensive experience in mining and resources.

We have a track record of prototyping and scaling emerging technologies to tackle strategic challenges faced by operations teams.

Our team is skilled in a wide range of fields necessary to support technology innovation at scale; from operations management and change management, to AI and disruptive technologies.

We have the knowhow to bring these together to craft performant and robust technology platforms.

Uncover trapped value in your mining supply chain using emerging technologies including AI, machine learning, computer vision and IoT.

Our team

Our team is skilled in a wide range of fields necessary to support technology innovation at scale; from operations management and change management to AI and disruptive technologies, and how to bring these together to craft performant and robust technology platforms.

MANAGING DIRECTOR
Steve Smart
OPERATIONS MANAGER
BELINDA KNIGHT
Analyst
Liam Howgate

Our Purpose

For Australian mining companies to compete internationally, it is essential that our mining operations are the most efficient in the world.

At RightTime Technologies we bridge technology innovation with front-line operations to unlock trapped value and find new ways to set safety and production benchmarks.

Put simply…

We enable mining operations teams to Achieve More.

We help you move beyond Innovation Theatre

Our difference is that we know how to create technology innovation to mining operations at scale, involving multiple sites and 1000s of users. Using our platform we help take an improvement idea from conceptualisation right through to operations-wide deployment and embedment.

Our Vision

To unleash the next-generation of Western Australian technology entrepreneurs.

We will achieve this through an unparalleled graduate program that recruits and develops top talent, and emphasises continuous learning, personal growth, and the power of self-discipline.

Core Values

Continuous Learning & Growth

As we navigate the rapidly evolving landscape of our industry, we prioritize continuous learning and personal growth.

We invest in the development of our team’s capabilities, creating opportunities for them to broaden their expertise and advance their careers.

By staying ahead of the curve, we ensure that we can provide our clients with the most effective and innovative solutions. In this journey of constant evolution, every challenge is a chance to learn and grow.

Empowered Collaboration

Unleashing the power of self-reliance and independent thought, we foster a dynamic culture where every individual is seen as an essential part of our collective success.

Within our teams, we spark innovation through this interplay between autonomy and collaboration. We transform our clients into partners, upskilling them with the revolutionary tools and insights they need to conquer their goals.

Our journey is a shared one, filled with collective triumphs celebrated together. This is the essence of Empowered Collaboration.

Innovation Excellence

We strive for excellence in every endeavor, pushing the boundaries of the conventional.

With a pioneering spirit, we leverage cutting-edge technologies to revolutionize the mining industry and set new benchmarks for operational efficiency. In our pursuit of excellence, we see innovation not as an option, but as a necessity.

This commitment to Innovation Excellence drives us to consistently deliver superior technology solutions for our clients.

Our Mission

We build robust, scalable and effective systems that leverage the latest viable technology to help mining operations realise new production and safety benchmarks.

Contact Us

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Get in Touch

Head Office

Level 1, 191 St Georges Terrace, Perth WA 6000, Australia.

Telephone

+61 (8) 9467 7880

E-mail

hello@righttime.com.au

Send Us A Message

Drop us a message and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.

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We use our blog to share our thoughts on a wide range of topics, including; enhancing mining operations, how emerging technologies can be applied, and guidance on how to increase the efficiency of IT support organisations.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Unlocking Opportunities in Mining using Emerging Technology and AI:
Your Questions Answered

No.

We are an enterprise software company that works with mining companies to achieve more in their production operations.

We believe consultants do not have enough ‘skin in the game’ to build lasting partnerships and create long-run shared success. The consulting business model incentivises consultants to seek outcomes that lead to customer dependency.

In any case, in an age where technology is becoming ubiquitous across mining management processes there is little difference between management and technology consulting.

Our vision is a world where business processes, and the technology implementation of those processes, are one.

While emerging technologies offer promise, mining operations teams and IT support functions have not been able to reliably implement and realise their benefits quickly at scale.  
 
By their nature, complex codebases implementing the latest Statistical AI and ML solutions can from time-to-time be unpredictable, making mining companies hesitant to make these technologies responsible for key mining operations decision automation activities.
 
To overcome this our platform provides a proven rules-based Symbolic AI expert system that ensures that all optimisation decisions and event responses make sense and are consistent with a team’s operational philosophy.  
 
This synergistic combination of Statistical AI and Symbolic AI is what we call Hybrid-AI.   
 
While the internal architectural specifics of our platform are proprietary, what we can say is that it is a collection of micro-services built using modern and established open-source frameworks.
 
The customised plugins we build for our clients are also microservices built using the most trusted development tools available.
It’s simple.  
 
We own the IP to our platform components and our off-the-shelf plugins.
 
You own the IP to any custom plugin components you develop yourself or we develop exclusively for you.
 
And our share-and-share-alike program means that you can accelerate your progress with our community machine learning models … if … you also agree to allow your training data to benefit the community. It’s your choice.
This is the wrong question.  
 
Instead let us understand the problem are you facing, and we’ll help you solve it.  
 
… but, yes: We have an inhouse 48GB NVIDIA A6000 GPU which we can use to rapidly train and finetune LLMs if it makes sense to solve our customer’s problems.
We believe interoperability is key to modern platform design.
 
By default we provide a RESTful API so your systems can interact with our platform.   
 
We also offer an OSI PI adapter, Citect SCADA adapter, Ignition SCADA adapter, ODBC adapter, HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) connector and PubSub endpoint (Kafka & MQTT).  
 
Custom connector plugins can be developed as required.
No.   
 
It is a Managed Service. It is containerised and can run either on-prem or in your preferred cloud.   
 
Ideally it is hosted within your OT network.