Constant monitoring of mining assets is vital when seeking to ensure the effectiveness of underground or open-pit machinery.
If there's one thing that's unavoidable, it's that when structuring machinery maintenance plans, a series of key trends have been defined for 2022. Especially now, with the IIoT dominating the landscape, the foundations of these new trends can be summarized in these seven value points:
1.- Increased reliability through predictive maintenance: Optimizing, streamlining, and innovating are some of the key words that have defined the post-pandemic industry, a sector in which predictive maintenance is positioned as the best way to manage asset overhauls in production processes.
Likewise, the mining industry has made great strides by merging its daily operations with Industry 4.0, specifically by introducing technologies that allow for remote, real-time monitoring of machinery, in addition to other functionalities.
2.- Adoption of circular mining: It's increasingly common to see mining companies adopting the circular economy as a business model that rethinks the entire process of reusing materials and assets, as a way to streamline operations. And why not? Moving directly toward the desired green mining scenario.
Within maintenance, circular mining directly addresses unplanned resource use, pollution, and reducing the footprint of products by minimizing energy use and making the most of machinery and its components, extending their useful life on site.
3.- More digitalized mining maintenance: The future is digital, and this also impacts the mining industry, but in a truly positive way. The pandemic was a catalyst, a phenomenon that forced this market to adopt more automated processes.
With digitalization, mining companies today have management software that helps them optimize and visualize the entire maintenance chain, allowing clients to make less risky decisions that support their objectives.
4.- Significant cost reduction in mining: Another effect of the pandemic was the economic impact, which led mining companies to experiment and implement new technologies to perform tasks previously performed by human capital. Furthermore, the use of asset management software has led to cost reductions by preventing equipment failures, increasing machine utilization, and reducing planned downtime.
5.- Software as a Service (SaaS) available: There is a growing trend, and this is the leasing of machinery through subscription plans, as well as the leasing of technological services or SaaS software hosted in the cloud, which facilitate the maintenance management of mining plants. We are talking about IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things), accessible to everyone and applied to both physical assets and their management and traceability, both on-site and during periodic maintenance.
An example of this is our SaaS software, Sherpath , which allows you to manage and view all component repair information in the mining industry, integrating with all management systems available at the sites and workshops of asset maintenance providers.
6.- Big Data in industrial maintenance: Continuing in line with the application, the IIoT in the mining value chain, the Industrial Internet of Things, Big Data and connectivity, are innovating in the field of maintenance of both industrial systems and assets.
In fact, the use of MES, SaaS, and other systems is increasingly making it easier for operators to channel algorithms that enable more accurate predictive maintenance. The same applies to the responsiveness of equipment, which results in the ability to know and visualize repair statuses, downtime, and operating costs, all in real time.
7.- Augmented reality: In this increasingly connected world, augmented reality is also emerging as a maintenance trend. This is intended to optimize time and effort, so that operators and technicians can perform instant diagnostics and 100% safe maintenance.
Augmented reality platforms are a breakthrough that speeds up operations, enables immediate information sharing, and also helps reduce human error.
As we can see, the trend is 100% digital, which is why it's vital to continue working on digital transformation in mining companies to achieve visible, innovative, sustainable, and circular processes in the industry. Therefore, we invite you to learn more about this platform.
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Effective management of mining asset maintenance plays a crucial role in ensuring the smooth running of operations. At Aisoncore, we have seen the challenges faced by maintenance managers , with the effective management of repairable assets standing out as a critical concern. Repairable assets are components or equipment that can be repaired rather than directly replaced. To streamline the maintenance process and avoid excessive downtime and costs, implementing traceability solutions for repairable asset management is essential.
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