... 2017 03 01 2018 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Availability Productivity Simulation Maintenance Mining equipment In coal open pits, a large amount of coal and overburden must be transported in the pit on a daily...

... and maintenance of mining equipment. Table I shows a brief review of past studies in this regard. As seen in the table, the application of reliability engineering in mining industries has been conducted since 1960, where with, various mining machines and their failure behavior and reliability have been studied...

... a genetic algorithm based modeling technique. Practical implications The use of classical statistical techniques has proven to be an effective tool for reliability analysis of mining equipment. This paper presents an efficient alternative to these classical probability based reliability analysis methods...