Mine Loader Failure Predicted by OMDEC EXAKT
“Intervene Immediately” after 10,000 trouble free hours
In a joint project with its Australian partner, FIRM Solutions Pty Ltd in 2010, OMDEC’s EXAKT failure prediction analysis tool accurately identified a critical impending failure in a large front end loader for a mining giant. Starting with an incomplete data set, the joint team successfully refined the data to the point where the failure modeling produced a startling prediction: a 90% probability of failure in the main engine bearing within the next 500 operating hours in a unit that had no history of similar problems for 12,500 operating hours. By analyzing multiple equipment conditions, EXAKT developed an easily measurable formula to accurately predict whether any of the equipment was in danger of immediate failure.
The answer was “Yes”.
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