Improvement of System Availability Using Reliability and Maintainability Analysis
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چکیده
Reliability is an important consideration in the planning, design and operation of engineeringsystems. As the size and complexity of mining equipment continue to increase, the implica-tions of equipment failure become ever more critical. One method to mitigate the impact offailures is to improve the reliability of the equipment. One of the purposes of system reliabil-ity analysis is to identify the weakness in a system and to quantify the effectual related conse-quence of a component failure. The performance of mining machines depends on the reliabil-ity of the equipment used, the operating environment, the maintenance efficiency, the opera-tion process and the technical expertise of the miners etc. It is important to select a suitablemethod for data collection and reliability analysis. This paper is divided into two parts. Thefirst part introduces a methodology for reliability and availability analysis of mining equip-ment. The second part presents a case study describing the reliability analysis of a crushingplant at Jajarm Bauxite Mine in Iran.
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