Track 1: AI and Data-Driven Decision Making

Time-based maintenance and reactive repairs remain common in underground mining, but they are increasingly inadequate for complex, high-utilization mobile equipment fleets. Preventive maintenance schedules based primarily on operating hours or calendar intervals can lead to unnecessary interventions, while reactive maintenance exposes mines to unplanned downtime, production interruptions, spare parts shortages, and higher repair costs. These limitations are especially acute in underground operations, where equipment availability is directly tied to the continuity of the production cycle and where access to reliable maintenance data is often constrained by fragmented systems, paper-based work orders, and incomplete failure histories. The platform's maintenance analytics capabilities address these limitations through three complementary functions: predictive maintenance, maintenance data structuring, and tire management. First, the platform includes a suite of predictive maintenance engines that identify early indicators of component degradation and failure risk. These engines use telemetry from mobile equipment, including data from engines, drivetrains, hydraulics, electrical systems, and other critical subsystems. By analyzing operating conditions, fault codes, sensor trends, duty cycles, and historical failure patterns, the system enables earlier detection of abnormal behavior and helps maintenance teams prioritize interventions based on asset condition rather than fixed service intervals alone. In practice, this allows maintenance planners to shift from a purely calendar-based model to condition-based and predictive maintenance, scheduling repairs before failures occur and at times that minimize disruption to production. Second, the platform converts unstructured maintenance records into structured operational data. In many mining environments, valuable information on failures, repairs, inspections, parts replacements, and technician observations is stored in free-text maintenance logs, work orders, shift reports, and service notes. This information is difficult to analyze at scale because it is inconsistent, incomplete, and often not coded in a standardized way. The maintenance management capability uses natural language processing and domain-specific classification methods to extract key information from these records, including failure modes, affected components, corrective actions, recurring defects, and parts usage. Once structured, this data can be linked to machine telemetry, operating context, and production history, creating a more complete basis for root-cause analysis, reliability improvement, and maintenance planning. Third, the platform includes tire management analytics, which are especially relevant to underground haulage fleets, where tire condition directly affects safety, cost, and equipment availability. Tire-related data, including pressure, temperature, payload, operating conditions, position, and inspection records, can be monitored and analyzed to identify abnormal wear, overload, underinflation, overheating, and other risk factors. These insights support more systematic tire rotation, replacement planning, and failure prevention. By integrating tire data with broader vehicle telemetry and maintenance records, the platform enables tire performance to be managed as part of the overall asset management strategy rather than as a separate inspectionbased process. Together, these capabilities create a more comprehensive maintenance analytics layer for underground mining fleets. Predictive engines provide forward-looking risk indicators;

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