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Build vs Buy — Mining and Metals
Weigh SaaS subscriptions against a custom build for Mining and Metals — see the multi-year total cost of ownership and which path wins.
What this means for Mining and Metals
- Equipment downtime on haul trucks, shovels, and crushers eats 12-18% of available production hours — the dispatch system is decade-old and doesn't surface the predictive signals the OEMs are now offering.
- Safety incidents are trending in the wrong direction — TRIFR creeping up despite safety spend, and the leading-indicator program is largely a paper compliance exercise.
- Ore body knowledge is fragmented — geology, grade control, and short-interval planning live in separate systems and a senior geologist's institutional memory.
Where it pays to act
- Predictive maintenance on haul trucks, shovels, mills, and crushers — using OEM telemetry and condition-monitoring data to schedule before failure.
- Autonomous haulage and drilling at scale — and the operating model redesign that makes those deployments actually deliver.
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Total cost of ownership
SaaS total (3yr)
₹19.9 L
Custom build total
₹21.8 L
Difference (cheaper to buy)
₹1.89 L
Breakeven
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What this means
A hybrid path fits best.
For Mining and Metals, the gap is ₹1.89 L over 3 years — close enough that a hybrid approach (buy core, build differentiating layers) often wins.
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