Mining Operations

Model-based RAMS for safer, more reliable mining operations.

MADE helps mining companies manage equipment reliability, safety risk, unplanned downtime, diagnostics and lifecycle cost through a connected Digital Risk Twin approach.

Equipment Uptime Reduce unplanned downtime and availability loss.
Worker Safety Identify hazards and critical failure pathways earlier.
Lifecycle Cost Optimise maintenance, spares and support decisions.
Diagnostics Support faster fault isolation and predictive maintenance.
Maintainability Design assets and systems for resilience and repairability.
Why Mining Needs MADE

Mining operations are complex, capital-intensive and safety-critical.

Equipment failures, unplanned downtime and safety incidents can lead to significant financial losses and reputational damage. MADE empowers mining companies to proactively manage these challenges through model-based RAMS across reliability, availability, maintainability and safety.

Curious how?

Read on to discover the power of Model-based RAMS for mining operations — from Digital Risk Twins to diagnostics, FTA, FMEA, FHA, repairable systems simulation and lifecycle optimisation.

Model-based RAMS and Reliability Software for Mining
Digital Risk Twin

Operational insight for complex mining assets.

Connect safety, reliability, availability, diagnostics and maintainability.

MADE enables the creation of a Digital Risk Twin of mining assets and systems. This model-based approach allows engineers to simulate how physical and functional failures propagate through mining systems, assess risks and validate maintenance and mitigation strategies before issues arise.

Mining challenges MADE helps address

MADE supports mining operators managing heavy equipment, remote operations, safety-critical assets, maintenance disruption and lifecycle cost pressure.

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Maximise equipment uptime

Analyse system dependencies and failure modes to identify critical components that impact availability, production continuity and maintenance windows.

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Design for reliability and maintainability

Identify high-risk design elements early and optimise mining equipment and processes for maintainability, resilience and repairability.

03

Enhance worker safety

Anticipate hazard scenarios and design safer systems for environments involving heavy machinery, hazardous materials and remote operations.

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Standardise RAMS analysis

Use structured taxonomies and workflows to create consistent processes across teams, sites and globally distributed operations.

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Lower lifecycle costs

Integrate RAMS earlier in design and operations to reduce rework, improve decision-making and optimise spare parts planning.

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Improve diagnostics and recovery

Use Digital Diagnostic Twins to model fault propagation paths and support faster fault isolation, root cause analysis and restoration.

Digital Risk Twin

Turn mining asset complexity into connected engineering intelligence.

MADE creates a Digital Risk Twin that connects system structure, failure behaviour, reliability data, safety analysis, diagnostics and maintainability information into a living engineering model.

This helps mining teams move beyond static spreadsheets and isolated analyses to understand the system-level impact of failures, maintenance decisions and operational changes.

Model failure propagation across haulage, conveyors, drilling, power, ventilation and support systems.
Connect RAMS data to maintenance planning, safety analysis and operational decision-making.
Support lifecycle optimisation across design, operation, sustainment and asset upgrades.
Digital
Risk Twin

Real-world applications in mining

MADE supports practical RAMS, diagnostics and lifecycle decision-making across critical mining assets and infrastructure.

FMEA / FMECA

Analyse failure modes for haul trucks, conveyors, drilling equipment and other critical mining assets.

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Real-time diagnostics

Use Digital Diagnostic Twins to support condition-based diagnostics, rapid fault detection and predictive maintenance.

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FTA and RBD analysis

Analyse power systems, ventilation infrastructure and other operationally critical mining systems.

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Repairable system simulation

Evaluate maintenance crew efficiency, repair strategies, resource allocation and operational availability.

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Digital RAMS Backbone

Integrate design and sustainment knowledge to align engineering, operations and maintenance decisions.

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Rapid fault isolation

Model fault propagation paths, identify isolation points and support faster recovery from maintenance disturbances.

Sensor coverage and fault isolation
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Unlock the power of Model-based RAMS for mining.

Download the MADE platform overview to see how Digital Risk Twins, model-based RAMS, diagnostics, FTA, FMEA, FHA and lifecycle analysis can help transform mining reliability and safety strategy.

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MADE capabilities for mining RAMS

MADE brings FTA, FMEA, FHA, diagnostics, PHM and model-based lifecycle analysis together in one environment.

Model-based Fault Tree Analysis with MADE Reliability Software

Fault Tree Analysis

At the touch of a button

MADE’s automated Fault Tree Analysis helps mining teams identify and mitigate critical system risks consistently. By tracing failure pathways from top-level events to root causes, MADE enhances safety, supports compliance and reduces downtime across mining operations.

Failure Mode Effects Analysis

Objective, faster and repeatable

MADE’s automated FMEA enables early detection of potential failure modes across critical mining assets and systems. Its model-based approach makes analysis high-integrity and rapidly repeatable as designs and models update.

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Model-based Functional Hazard Assessment with MADE Reliability Software

Functional Hazard Assessment

Better mining system safety

MADE’s FHA helps mining maintenance and engineering teams assess and prioritise functional failures before they lead to hazards. It supports safer system design by linking functions to risks and identifying critical loss scenarios early.

Outcomes for mining organisations

MADE helps teams move from fragmented analysis to connected engineering intelligence.

Maximise uptime Identify critical failure paths and improve availability of production-critical assets.
Improve safety Connect hazards, functional failures and mitigation strategies in a traceable model.
Reduce lifecycle cost Optimise maintenance, spares, resource allocation and long-term asset decisions.
Improve diagnostics Use Digital Diagnostic Twins to support faster fault detection and isolation.
Standardise analysis Use common taxonomies and workflows across sites, teams and asset classes.
Support better decisions Expose system-level risk, downtime and sustainment implications earlier.

Build safer, more reliable mining operations with MADE.

MADE enables mining teams to unify reliability, safety, maintainability, diagnostics and lifecycle analysis within a single model-based engineering framework — helping operators reduce downtime, improve safety and make better asset decisions.

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