Maintenance Management Matures at Trapper Mine 870826
Trapper Mine, a large western surface coal mine, began operating in 1976 and suffered from typical start-up inefficiencies including poor equipment availabilities and weak maintenance management practices. Throughout its brief history, a continuous effort to improve this situation has been ongoing. This paper describes the corrective action taken to-date and hints at what might be in the high-tech future of mine maintenance.
