Infographic – Failures of equipment, particularly those huge vehicles used for mining could lead to a big loss to a mining company. Hydraulic power and belt drive failures cause up to 47% of downtime at mining operations.
A typical mechanical problem could lead to 60 hours of downtime per incident. Each hour could lose about $3,000-worth of production. With that. such problem could result to up to $180,000. Here is an Infographic presented by Gates.com so that you can completely comprehend what this unplanned downtime is all about.