Characterising maintenance costs has always been challenging due to a lack of accurate
prior cost data and the uncertainties around equipment usage and reliability. Since …

Asset-intensive companies face great pressure to reduce operation costs and increase
utilization. This scenario often leads to over-stress on critical equipment and its spare parts …

The automated load-haul-dump (LHD) machines have the potential to increase productivity
and improve safety, but there are many issues to be considered when optimising the …

In recent times, spare parts inventory systems have been extensively researched, but most
inventory models were not fully adequate due to the stochastic nature of inventory …

Although mining production depends on various equipments, significant amount of
production loss can be attributed a specific equipment or fleet. Bottleneck is defined not only …

Maintenance cost is a significant part of production costs. Hence, logistics and spare part
management should be considered early in the design and operational phase. The …

Abstract Load Haul Dumpers (LHDs) are prominent equipment employed for transportation
operations in many of the underground mines. This equipment often suffers from frequent …

In the cement industry, the decision for the replacement of the Spare Parts Inventory is the
more essential decision, especially, the proportion of the product collection, dedicated to …

Performance-based service contracting is envisioned to reduce the assets ownership cost
while ensuring the system performance. Operational availability is considered as the key …

In view of the abnormal, missing and multi-source reliability data, a complete reliability data
processing method for civil machinery parts are formed. The abnormal data in the original …