... required to undergo structural reviews or life-extension decisions. Output data fields extracted to support reliability analysis include: © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Mining Maintenance CMMS Data cleansing Data quality Reliability analysis Semantic processing...

...Jonisha Pollard; John Heberger; Patrick G. Dempsey Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify key tasks, tools, and equipment associated with maintenance and repair injuries at US mines and to provide some mitigation strategies to reduce these types of injuries. Design/methodology...

...Seyed Hadi Hoseinie; Mohammad Ataei; Reza Khalokakaie; Behzad Ghodrati; Uday Kumar Purpose Longwall mining is a special mining method with high productivity and smooth operation and the drum shearer is known as the most important component in longwall mines due to its direct role in the coal...

...Nick Vagenas; Tony Nuziale Discusses an ongoing research work which attempts to formulate, develop and test mining equipment reliability assessment models based on genetic algorithms. Genetic algorithms are powerful and broadly applicable stochastic search techniques based on the principles...

...Michael W. Lewis; Luiz Steinberg Maintenance represents a significant proportion of the overall operating costs in the mining industry. Despite the large cost of maintenance, management has only given passing attention to the optimization of the maintenance process. The focus has remained...

... Cardinal River Coals Ltd is a 50/50 joint venture between Luscar Ltd and Consol of Canada, Inc. The mine is located approximately 50km south of Hinton, Alberta on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains. The coal produced from the mine is low sulphur, high quality coking coal used for steel making...