Breakdown of stackers and excavators in opencast mines is possible because of operating,
manufacturing and structural causes, and it produces high financial losses. These can be …

Purpose. To justify the parameters of the technological scheme of working out an advanced
overburden bench by a bucket wheel excavator, to reduce the cost of overburden work at Pit …

Purpose Reliability plays an important role in the execution of the maintenance improvement
and the understanding of its concepts is essential to predict the type of maintenance …

Risk management, through the systematic implementation of policies related to analysis,
assessment, and action leading to a reduction in the amount of risk-related losses, is …

This work introduces a methodology for the automatic unmineable inclusions detection and
Bucket Wheel Excavator (BWE) collision prevention, using electromagnetic (EM) inspection …

Existing studies dealing with structural strength of bucket wheel excavators (BWE) include a
traditional approach that does not take into account the whole structural response of the …

This paper deals with the issue of the service life of the boom of a bucket wheel excavator
(BWE) in a lignite open-pit, solved through a fatigue analysis with the aid of the SolidWorks …

Delay time models (DTM) for series systems divide the failure of a system into the
appearance of defects and the delay until the breakdown. During this work, we developed …

En Minera Yanacocha las labores o trabajos de minería superficial se ven afectados por la
constante falla de flota de palas hidráulicas Hitachi. Acorde con el registro de mayo de …

Trends such as increasing awareness of sustainable production, shorter product life cycles
and personalised products create challenges for the mining industry. A solution to these …