ABSTRACT
Mine equipment production availability and maintenance performance costs are becoming an increasingly significant component of the total mining operations cost. Because of the inter-dependence of equipment utilization and other functional areas of the minesite, an integrated approach to the monitoring and control of production costs is essential.
To achieve this goal, the information system must provide information to support the mine management in reaching the following objectives: (1) establishing the best truck fleet, equipment, and component configuration; (2) monitoring equipment production effects; (3) establishing the best maintenance program; and (4) monitoring equipment availability.
These objectives can be reached trough several groups of reports. Each of these groups should provide: regular and periodic reports to support the planing and monitoring trends; exception reports for identification of problems; on-request reports for production analysis.
The outlined system is designed to provide information for decision making personal on minesite.
