Coal Mine Autonomous Haulage Solution Implementation
A 70% reduction in truck stoppages, achieved through a disciplined improvement program and strong site leadership during the final stage of AHS handover.
The challenge
The site was in the final stages of a two-to-three year AHS implementation, close to handing over to the business-as-usual run team. The original project team had largely disbanded before this final stage, leaving gaps in the site’s understanding of what was required to support and maintain the operating technology.
Production was behind target with around 1,400 truck stoppages a day and no clear view of where they were coming from.
The solution
Imvelo stood up a focused project team to find and fix the causes of low productive movement, and ran a 12-week program to rebuild the discipline the handover had lost.
Find the gap. Identify the stoppages that weren't being measured, tracked, or monitored, and deep-dive the root causes.
Rebuild discipline. A 12-week program focused on discipline to standardisation, monitoring, routines, and continuous improvement — forming a strong working relationship between the maintenance and technology teams.
Institutionalise the routine. A daily meeting was established around technology faults, anchored by the support team's monitoring and reporting, with increased proactive health checks on alerts and alarms.
Key lessons
Following the new methodology, truck stoppages fell 70% over the 12-week program, from 1,400 to 400 per day. The speed of resolution was credited to applying learnings from previous deployments, backed by a site leadership team genuinely committed to the AHS journey.