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Maintenance Strategy

Minimize equipment failure and downtime with effective maintenance scheduling

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Overview

Maintenance scheduling and coordination for equipment, from trucks and loaders on site to equipment at processing plants, present a diverse set of challenges according to equipment requirements. The long planning horizons mines have, from exploration and development to closure, add complexity to designing a maintenance strategy that considers entire equipment lifecycles and infrastructure.

Operational constraints may include matching production goals to mining equipment maintenance requirements, with necessary trade-offs to be made in scheduled downtime. Remote or harsh mine locations also pose a logistical challenge, as well as ensuring accurate and up-to-date mining equipment performance data, usage and conditions.

Key Client Challenges

How do we successfully adopt a predictive maintenance strategy and telemetry workflows to fully leverage our mining equipment sensor data?

How do we balance our maintenance requirements along with maintaining production levels and meeting production targets?

How do we set strategic KPIs for measurable improvements that incentivize efficient maintenance scheduling?

How YCP Unison Can Help

Predictive maintenance practices using sensor data, adaptive telemetry workflows, and predictive modeling are transforming mining maintenance strategies. By effectively leveraging these technologies, operators can now predict mining equipment failure to reduce downtime, safety hazards, and production losses.

Introducing these new ways of working can also cause initial resistance from employees accustomed to existing practices. Change management efforts are necessary to ensure smooth implementation, adoption and buy-in. Finally, defining key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to evaluate maintenance strategy effectiveness is essential for sustained results.

At YCP Unison, our subject matter experts can work together with your teams, providing maintenance strategy consulting services that ensure that the necessary processes, controls and systems are implemented successfully – incentivizing behavior change and promoting continuous improvement in your maintenance operations.