Industries / Mining and Quarrying

Maintenance software for mines and quarries

Keep the trucks hauling and the crusher running.

Solmex services haul trucks, excavators, crushers and conveyors by run hours, records every pre-start and plant check with a name and a time, and shows what each machine burns and costs.

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A worker in a hard hat inspects the front of a large haul truck parked beside others at a mine yard.

What is at stake

Every hour a truck or crusher stands, tonnes are lost.

44%

Share of total mining cost spent on maintenance at six open-pit copper mines studied

Source: Knights and Oyanader, CIM Bulletin (2005)

+1%

Haul truck availability gained for every 4% more of the maintenance that was planned

Source: Knights and Oyanader, CIM Bulletin (2005)

12% to 18%

Saved by preventive maintenance compared with running equipment until it fails

Source: US Department of Energy, O&M Best Practices Guide

Sound familiar?

In a pit, one stopped machine stops production.

The crusher stops the whole circuit

A worn conveyor idler seizes and the belt trips. The crusher backs up, the trucks queue at the tip, and the day's tonnes are gone.

Pre-start checks are ticked, not done

Paper pre-start sheets come back in a bundle at the end of the shift. When an incident happens, nobody can show what was actually checked.

Fuel and parts go unaccounted

Diesel is the biggest running cost, yet nobody can say which truck burns too much, or which loader keeps eating tyres and hoses.

How Solmex fixes it

One system for the pit and the plant.

Prevent

Service trucks and plant on run hours

Set a plan once for haul trucks, excavators, loaders, crushers, screens and conveyors. Solmex schedules each service by run hours or the calendar and shows what is due before it fails.

Plans by run hours or by date
Hour readings entered at the machine
Due and overdue work in one list

See Preventive Maintenance

Prove

Every pre-start and plant check signed

Pre-start, conveyor and crusher checks run from a phone at the machine. Each answer carries a name, a time and a photo, and a failed item opens a job straight away.

Checklists with photos and signatures
A failed item becomes a tracked job
Signed PDF report for each check

See Inspections

Control

Know what every machine burns

Log every fill at the fuel truck or the tank against the machine and its hour meter. Solmex works out each machine's own consumption and flags a fill that does not fit.

Litres per hour for every machine
Unusual fills flagged for review
Fuel cost posted to each machine

See Fuel

Your numbers

What is unplanned downtime costing you?

Move the sliders to match your operation. The starting values are typical for the sector, not a promise.

Critical assets (haul trucks, crushers, conveyors, loaders)

Hours of unplanned downtime per asset, per year

Cost of one hour of downtime on one asset

Unplanned downtime costs you about $0

Planned maintenance that avoids 30% of it is worth $0

An estimate from your own inputs. The 30% is set below published results on purpose: NIST found 44% less downtime at plants that invested more in preventive and predictive maintenance.

No risk to try

Start small. Keep your data. Leave any time.

Free to start, free to stay

Every account gets 14 days of the Business plan. After that, one user and up to 25 assets stay free with no time limit.

Anyone can report a problem

Operators, cleaners and tenants report faults by scanning a QR code. People who only report are free on every plan.

Your data stays yours

Export every record to Excel whenever you like, or take a full export of the whole account. Nothing is locked in.

Private and controlled

Your company's records are kept apart from every other customer's, every change is logged, and you decide who can see and do what.

Questions

Frequently asked questions

Can we schedule maintenance on tonnage or cycles?

Not today. Solmex schedules services on run hours, kilometres or the calendar, which covers engines, gearboxes, crushers and conveyors on most sites. Each interval has its own tasks and parts, and Solmex shows what is due, due soon or overdue from the latest meter reading.

Does Solmex help with safety inspections and audits?

It keeps the records. Every pre-start, plant inspection and repair is stored against the machine with the person, the date and time, and any photos or signatures, and can be printed as a signed PDF. Solmex does not certify compliance; it gives your safety team the evidence.

Does Solmex read data from the trucks' onboard systems?

Yes, through an integration built for you. We connect Solmex to your trucks' onboard systems, telematics or sensors as a separate project, scoped to your fleet and priced separately. Without one, operators and fuel attendants enter hour readings and fills from a phone, and Solmex checks each reading against the machine's history: a reading that goes backwards is refused, and an unusual jump is held for confirmation.

How long does it take to get started?

Most sites start with their critical machines in a day or two. Import the equipment list from Excel, set up service plans for the trucks and the crushing circuit, and put QR labels on the machines so operators can report faults. Every new account gets 14 days of the Business plan free, with no card needed.