Case Study
Reliability and defect elimination project - The Capcoal project
Case study Reliability Engineering and Defect Elimination The Capcoal project comprises of an underground mine, open cut mine and a coal preparation plant. Together these mines produce in excess of 9 Mt/y of prime quality hard coking coal, pulverised coal injection and thermal coal. Capcoal is located in the heart of the Bowen Basin in Central Queensland, Australia. Ausenco Rylson provided specialist reliability engineering and defect elimination support to one of the Capcoal underground coal mining operations. This support included: • Reliability data analysis • Failure identifi cation and root cause analysis (RCA) • Specialist techniques to reduce the likelihood or frequency of the failures • Maintenance strategy optimisation • Optimisation of predictive maintenance ac