From Warnings to Answers
New industrial AI platforms are beginning to tell maintenance teams not only that a machine is failing, but also what is failing, why it is happening and what should be…
The Predictive Maintenance Paradox
"We have not been experiencing significant breakdowns since adopting the predictive maintenance approach two years ago. As a result, we are reducing the maintenance budget." It's 10:00 am on a…
How Maintenance and Finance Teams Can Play Nicely….
"Maintenance does not exist in a vacuum. It competes with other calls on capital and resource, often under significant pressure to demonstrate short-term financial discipline. In that environment, maintenance can…
Balancing Possibilities with Reality
No doubt, remote monitoring through Remote Operation Centres (ROCs) has opened up many possibilities for predictive maintenance of mission-critical equipment in African mining and heavy industry. However, in the real…
Ines Hartwig, Director of Product Management at TOMRA Mining
Milestone Recoveries Through Data-Driven Maintenance
The Technical Team at TOMRA is contented to see their data-driven maintenance strategies improve the availability of the company’s flagship high-capacity sensor-based sorting systems in challenging-recovery applications in diamond mining.…
Heat is a Hint
Thermal Video Monitoring in Mines Can Enable You Catch Problems Before They Catch You by Surprise Mining operations run on one fundamental truth: downtime costs money - a lot of…
