Boost Haul Truck Reliability to Improve Mining Operations

The Impact of Prescriptive Maintenance on Haul Truck Reliability and Productivity

AspenTech and 4Sight are turning condition monitoring procedures in the mine pit on their head by providing prescriptive maintenance tools powered by machine learning that offer the earliest possible issue detection along with context to allow operators and maintenance personal to act in advance. 

The key is Prescriptive Maintenance and Preventative Maintenance as Simultaneous Solutions
As an alternative to preventative maintenance, there are several prescriptive maintenance solutions currently available in the marketplace. Prescriptive maintenance goes an extra step or two beyond preventative maintenance by not only identifying potential issues but providing a specific remedy to address the problem.

AspenTech's Prescriptive maintenance solution provides an opportunity for maintenance managers to:

• Introduce advanced, proprietary machine learning technology to inform decisions.
• Detect potential issues early.
• Optimise equipment use.
• Decrease costs and lengthen the life of high CAPEX assets.

The solution can also identify data patterns, specifically which patterns are demonstrating normal behaviour within a given system based on historical data. Agents are placed in the system to monitor the equipment in real time, capturing all data from the system and when these agents detect behaviour that falls outside the established norms, alerts are triggered for certain events that may lead to future failures.  

Example of Monitoring Equipment in real-time

Watch this video to learn more about our prescriptive maintenance solution for the metals and mining industry.