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Maintenance Strategy

Develop a mine maintenance strategy to mitigate costs, breakdowns and downtime

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Overview

Mine maintenance strategies can vary significantly based on age of equipment, life of mine, supply chain constraints, talent level of maintenance personnel, weather and seasonality, and fleet financing.

These various conditions have a direct impact on which maintenance strategy to deploy, such as corrective/preventive/predictive, risk-based, condition-based, break and fix, or even run to failure. However, the most effective maintenance strategy today is one that efficiently leverages data to drive decisions such as scheduling, work order management, and technician allocation.

Ageing equipment and infrastructure only add complexity and cost to maintenance operations. With spare parts no longer available for many pieces of equipment, or being increasingly difficult to secure, the cost of maintenance may surpass upgrading to newer equipment – another important reason that equipment data is important to fully leverage to identify this tipping point.

Key Client Challenges

How can we transition from reactive maintenance to a more proactive and predictive maintenance approach?

What technologies, such as IoT sensors or data analytics, should we invest in or utilize more effectively to enhance our maintenance capabilities?

Are there opportunities to optimize maintenance schedules and resource allocation to reduce costs while maintaining equipment performance?

How YCP Unison Can Help

By integrating and leveraging equipment sensor data and predicting equipment performance, mines can vastly improve the efficiency and safety of workers. With remote monitoring technologies increasingly being used to track equipment health, teams can respond more quickly to issues as they arise.

Our experts at YCP Unison can help you improve these maintenance processes and align KPIs to ensure workers adhere to the new ways of working necessary for successful and timely work order fulfilment. By incentivizing behavior changes at every organizational level, we also work with you to ensure maintenance strategies are sustained over the long term.