Maintenance Strategy
Maintenance Strategy
Overview
Define a tailor-made maintenance strategy to suit the needs and equipment of your mine
Mining companies face several challenges when defining their maintenance strategies. Many elements must be carefully considered. For example: age of equipment, life of mine, supply chain constraints, talent level of maintenance personnel, weather and seasonality, and even ESG scores that help or hinder 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. Effective maintenance strategies are increasingly reliant on data accuracy and data capture.
For most operations, equipment and infrastructure has been in use for many years, which adds complexity and cost to maintenance. With spare parts no longer available, or increasingly difficult to secure, the cost of maintaining older equipment may surpass upgrading to newer equipment.
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 to enhance our maintenance capabilities?
- What data should we collect and monitor from our equipment, and how can we use this data to predict and prevent failures?
- Are there opportunities to automate routine maintenance tasks to improve efficiency and reduce labor costs?
- How can we ensure the safety of maintenance personnel when working in challenging and hazardous mining environments?
- Are there opportunities to optimize maintenance schedules and resource allocation to reduce costs while maintaining equipment performance?
By incorporating automation and robotics into maintenance processes, mine operators can vastly improve efficiency and safety of workers. Remote monitoring technologies are also increasingly being used to track equipment health and performance, enabling quicker responses to issues as they arise.
Our experts at Unison Mining can help you improve the processes and align KPIs to ensure workers adhere to the new ways of working necessary for successful technology adoption. By incentivizing behavior changes at every organizational level, we work with you to ensure maintenance strategies are sustained over the long term.
Lacking data to validate or support key business decisions
Lack of knowledge to define a cohesive business or data strategy
Low speed to market and trouble adapting quickly to customer and market needs
High operational costs due to lengthy data processing times
OUR MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT SERVICES
Maintenance Strategy
Wrench Time Optimization
Response Time Practices
Work Order Systems Enhancements
Equipment Aging & Bad Actors
Spares & Tools Management
Ready Backlog
Kitting & Critical Path
Subtask Time Estimation
WHY UNISON MINING
Experience
Our mining experts have experienced first-hand the day-to-day complexities and issues that arise at the mining face, giving them a higher level of understanding and insight to meet your challenges.
Practical Solutions
By implementing level-appropriate transformation tools, our behavioral and cultural change methodologies, data management, and analytics, our goal is to create a sustainable and positive impact on your mining operations.
Results-driven
We go beyond strategy to offer a direct and measurable approach to success. Our commitment extends to delivering real business outcomes and helping your team sustain those changes for the long haul.
