ASSET HEALTH & MANAGEMENT

 AFRIHARNESS asset health system shrinks the impact equipment condition has on your mine’s cost and operational performance. Our technology gives you the power to apply condition-based maintenance to extend equipment time in production and prevent catastrophic failures that cost millions of dollars in repairs and lost productivity.

Stop critical component failures. Unplanned equipment failures cost millions of dollars in emergency repairs, towing costs, and potential lost productivity.

AFRIHARNES asset health system prevents critical failures by alerting you of failing component condition— long before it becomes a problem. Track the condition of machine components to stay aware of potential failures and risks of unplanned downtime.

FLEET OPTIMIZATION

Once regarded as best practice, fleet management is now considered standard practice for mines to be safer and more productive. Hexagon is at the forefront of integrating fleet management systems (FMS) and safety solutions to elevate fleet management to mission critical, allowing companies to maximize the effectiveness of their fleets while actually improving safety.

AFRIHARNESS Fleet Management empowers you with more control and visibility. Reduce downtime and increase production with integrated solutions for trucks, dozers, shovels, drills, and more.

 COST CONTROL AND BUDGETTING

 Reduced maintenance spending

The most obvious way that better asset management can benefit a mining operation is by reducing the amount you spend on maintenance. Preventative maintenance is a proven method of reducing maintenance spend — emergency maintenance is 3-9 times the cost of planned maintenance. In addition to reduced maintenance costs, preventative maintenance leads to decreased downtime, increased equipment life expectancy, a lower risk of unplanned maintenance, and improved equipment efficiency.

Without a preventative maintenance plan in place, the likelihood of unplanned maintenance increases. When equipment breaks down, it can result in unexpected downtime and significant production losses. It will also force your staff to spend valuable time responding to the equipment failures. In addition, any replacement parts not in your inventory must be shipped in quickly, creating further time delays and expense.

Increased utilization rates

Through careful and consistent asset tracking and maintenance, mining operations can enjoy better utilization rates across multiple mining sites. Equipment or asset utilization is simply the measurement of the use and performance of your mining machinery. The primary metrics surrounding utilization rate calculation might include ignition on/off times, engine hours, and fuel use. More sophisticated metrics might include GPS-based location or sensor data such as weight scales. By collecting data such as an asset’s location, how long its engine has been running, whether core maintenance functions have been performed builds a picture of utilization that can be measured and ultimately optimized.

Reduction in business risk

One key to managing asset risk is having a strategy in place to prevent or reduce losses in the event of an equipment failure. Equipment asset management applications can help you establish standardized processes to identify, quantify, and prioritize asset failure risks, including asset downtime, regulatory compliance, and environmental and safety concerns. In addition to providing, you with visibility into the risks, an effective asset maintenance plan can also deliver the structure to establish controls and mitigation strategies to reduce the impact of these risks.

Improved access to maintenance and spend data

You can’t manage what you can’t measure. Many mining companies lack the information required to drive more value from their assets. By providing detailed metrics surrounding your mining assets and equipment, mine asset and maintenance solutions provide the data necessary to make strategic decisions about when to retire old equipment, purchase additional pieces, or relocate assets to a more strategic location.

Improvements in working capital

As capital for both investments and operational purposes becomes harder to come by, increasing the productivity and longevity of existing assets gains importance. Effective asset management goes a long way toward increasing productivity and lowering costs, thereby contributing to your mining company’s working capital. Maximizing mining assets is often seen as a trade-off between maintenance and operations, with few links to financial performance. However, when you remember that you spend 30-50 percent of your total operating costs on equipment maintenance and management, all operating expense reductions become significant benefits.

Better asset management and equipment maintenance is a winning strategy for mining companies. We partner with three of the preeminent equipment and asset management solution providers in the industry to deliver this functionality as part of AFRIHARNESS Solutions. Regardless of your organization’s size, we’ve got a mining asset and equipment management solution for you.

 

SUSTAINABLE INTERGRATION

AFRIHARNESS enterprise asset management software provides the specialist capabilities you need for efficient asset management to support your business practices and is implemented to complement the existing business applications within your Enterprise IT ecosystems.   Our software is an inherently open system designed with integration and sociability in mind. Interoperability and integration are inherent in the DNA of the product suite.

AFRIHARNESS utilizes our Integration Framework to map-out suitable business automation and implement solutions with capabilities that work in harmony and complement our client’s existing IT applications.  AFRIHARNESS s software solutions provide the specialist capabilities you need for efficient management of assets, buildings, tools and equipment. Our solutions complement your existing business applications within your enterprise IT ecosystems.  

Utilizing proven combinations of enterprise asset management software, services, hardware, and hosting, leveraging offerings from AFRIHARNESS and our partners.

We are happy to work with customers to ensure their AFRIHARNESS enterprise asset management solution produces the required results and leverages existing software investments maximally.