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Cost of Manual Work — Mining and Metals
See what repetitive manual work is costing Mining and Metals teams each year — where 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.
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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What manual work costs you
Annual cost
₹6.6 L
People-weeks / year
33
Recoverable via automation
₹4.62 L
Payback
7.8 mo
What this means
Mining and Metals teams lose 33 people-weeks a year to this work — about ₹6.6 L. Automating the routine ~70% recovers ₹4.62 L a year.
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