This research will therefore, add to the very scarce literature on rig availability and utilisation in the mining industry. 1.1 Drilling System Performance The efficiency of a modern mining system depends heavily on the productivity and availability of the equipment used to extract the material (Bullock, 2011).
Abstract: Achieving the high production and productivity target is one of the biggest challenges for mining companies, in order to remain competitive in the global …
Mine operations are supported by a short-term production schedule, which defines where and when mining activities are performed. However, deviations can be observed in this short-term production schedule because of several sources of uncertainty and their inherent complexity. Therefore, schedules that are more likely to be …
for utilisation depends on, among other things, the shift system, and the blasting practices of a mine and can range between 80% to 90%. •Equipment effective utilisation is the total productive hours of the mining equipment as a percentage of total available shift hours, taking both mechanical availability and operation utilisation into account.
1. Introduction. Equipment selection and optimization is one of the most challenging problems in the mining industry today, especially matching the correct …
In this light, the present paper is an endeavor to analyze availability and utilization of dragline operations. The paper presents a good amount of data for 4-draglines operating in one of the major opencast projects in India. The study reveals the trends of availability and utilization of these draglines during last 11-years.
Introduction. Traditionally, Mining organisations have focused on the key measures of Plant Availability and Utilisation to measure equipment performance. This paper sets out to …
Computed availability, utilization and availability-cum-utilization factor for draglines in mine 1 ... In the mining industry the trend has been toward larger equipment. Many types of equipment ...
The company has established the suitability of a -7295 38.2m3 shovel @ cycle time = 35 seconds, availability = 90%, utilisation = 80%, and bucket fill factor = 90%. It is evaluating the suitability of 795F 313-tonne trucks for the haul road profile in Table 1 and relevant performance curves in propulsion and retard modes given in Figures ...
Availability And Utilization Of Mining Equipment. Prompt : Caesar is a famous mining equipment manufacturer well-known both at home and abroad, major in producing stone crushing equipment, mineral separation equipment, limestone grinding equipment, etc. Important information on production & availability of mining equipment are available …
Coal India Limited (CIL) and its subsidiaries accounted for 622.63 MT during 2021-22 as compared to a production of 596.22 MT in 2020-21 showing a positive growth of 4.4%. Coal production of CIL during 2022-23 was 703.20 MT with a positive growth of 12.94%. Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) is the main source for supply of coal to the ...
Innovation plays a critical role in the mining industry as a tool to improve the efficiency of its processes, to reduce costs, but also to meet the increasing social and environmental concerns among communities and authorities. Technological progress has also been crucial to allow the exploitation of new deposits in more complex scenarios: …
The study seeks to examine the effect of availability and utilization on mine production. Daily data used in this study spanned from January 2016 to June 2016 were queried from the Modular...
Improving Shift-Change at Open Pit Mines. FiguresFigure 1: The average time from the last load of the shift to the first load of the following shift.Figure 2: The average time from the last load of the shift to the first …
The availability and utilization of mining equipment difer from one practitioner to another, from one author to another, from one supplier to another, as well as an engineer to …
The availability and utilization of mining equipment differ from one practitioner to another, from one author to another, from one supplier to another, as well as an engineer to another. Vorne defines the time available as the planned production time less downtime [1]. He defines downtime as all time during which the equipment is supposed
'Availability' to one mining company may not have the same meaning to another mining company or to a supplier of mining equipment. In this section, the authors have …
the production of equipments used in each step depends on the production of previous equipment. That means utilization of each equipment affects the others. • The capacity of mining equipment is huge. Therefore the effect of …
The analysis concerns to availability of utilization selected mining machinery, conducted using the model of OEE, which is a tool for quantitative estimate …
The availability and the utilisation of drill rigs have great impact on the output of a mine. These can be optimised by reducing the downtimes and operational delays to ensure high availability and utilisation, and consequently higher productivities. In this paper, the causes of the numerous rig breakdowns at Kanjole Minerals Ltd. (KML) were …
To investigate the production of draglines and effect of availability and utilization on the production. To investigate the reason for low availability and utilization in the field. To …
This research will therefore, add to the very scarce literature on rig availability and utilisation in the mining industry. ... 1.2 Availability, Utilisation and Production Availability: ...
The utilization percentage can be improved by minimizing the idle times of the machine. This includes insufficient availability of ore to transport, shift changing of the personnel, harsh environmental conditions, and traffic in the underground. This can be controlled by undertaking better managerial and operational practices.
The availability forecast is a key step in the maintenance managemen t. process, whereby costs are anticipated and actions can be taken to maintain and. improve the reliability of the fleet. The ...
Worldwide mining operations are as much as 28 percent less productive today than a decade ago, according to new McKinsey research. The results from McKinsey's new MineLens Productivity Index (MPI), which adjusts for declining ore grades and mine cost inflation, show that the pronounced decline in productivity is evident …
To quantify the uncertain equipment performance, the availability and utilisation of all mobile equipment, and the hourly production rates of the shovels are simulated. ... Discovery grant 239019 of Prof. Dimitrakopoulos and the COSMO Mining Industry Consortium (AngloGold Ashanti, Barrick Gold, BHP, De Beers, IAMGOLD, …
From the fixed effects model, it was observed that the effect of utilization (i.e., 171.29) on production is higher than the effect of availability (131.56) on production, all things being equal.
The availability and the utilisation of drill rigs have great impact on the output of a mine. These can be optimised by reducing the downtimes and operational delays to ensure high availability and utilisation, and consequently higher productivities.
ISSN: 2169-0316. Management of Efficiencies of Mining Equipment. Ilunga Yano Y annick*. University of Kolwezi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central Africa. Abstract. Some practitioners ...
CONCLUSION Availability and utilization study is a known method to measure performance of production equipment in manufacturing industries and adapted for mining industry in this paper. From the above studies various steps can be taken to improve availability and utilization of SDL machine so that its performance is better and …
• Recommended definitions for common industry opera-tional key performance indicators (KPIs) for reporting mining asset availability and utilization. The time categories, Time Usage Model, and KPI defini-tions outlined in this guideline are not intended to be indus - try standards; these are recommendations for recording
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The performance rate in the mining industry is similar to the utilization rate and is necessarily referred to as such, hereby, leading to the following equations; (5) ... The influences of the Availability, Utilization and Production efficiency on the OEE were found to be 0.247, 0.956 and 0.549 in terms of correlation respectively. ...
Units: Percent of Capacity, Seasonally Adjusted Frequency: Monthly Notes: For a given industry, the capacity utilization rate is equal to an output index divided by a capacity index. The Federal Reserve …