Economic lifetime of a drilling machine: a case study on mining industry

• Published in: International Journal of Strategic Engineering Asset Management
• Main Authors: Hamodi, Hussan, Lundberg, Jan, Jonsson, Adam
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Luleå tekniska universitet, Drift, underhåll och akustik 2015
• Subjects: drilling machine; economic replacement time; optimisation model; asset management; Other Civil Engineering; Annan samhällsbyggnadsteknik; Probability Theory and Statistics; Sannolikhetsteori och statistik; Lundberg; Luleå
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-11071; https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSEAM.2015.070624

Underground mines use many different types of machinery duringthe drift mining processes of drilling, charging, blasting, loading, scaling andbolting. Drilling machines play a critical role in the mineral extraction processand thus are important economically. However, as the machines age, theireffic...