International Applied Reliability Symposium (ARS): An international reliability and maintainability conference event

Track 2 Session 12
4:45 to 5:55 p.m. Thursday September 14, 2006

A Case Study of Copper Mining System Reliability, Maintainability and Availability Analysis

This presentation describes a project to develop the Reliability, Maintainability and Availability Analysis of a Copper Mining System, including the Mining and Production Process. The project was comprised of system modeling (using Reliability Block Diagram, RBD), data collection and analysis (Reliability and Maintainability), simulations to obtain Availability, and conclusions. Data from equipment downtime logs was used to analyze the Reliability and Maintainability of every piece of equipment in the mining system. The main objective was to provide a statistical model to allow the user to identify system weakness and propose changes for improvement. This method facilitates qualitative analysis in conjunction with intuition.

 
Claudio Spanó
ReliaSoft Brasil, Brasil

 
Mr. Spanó is currently the President & CEO of ReliaSoft Brasil. Previously, he worked as Reliability Engineer at Mercedes-Benz. Over the last 10 years, he has been involved in promoting Reliability Engineering in Brazil. He has provided consultancy services and training to more than 100 companies in South America and Europe, including Petrobras, Daimler-Chrysler, Volvo, Robert Bosch, Vaelo and John Deere. In addition, he also participates in the development of new technologically advanced products and services at ReliaSoft.