Case Study: BUMA achieves 180% improvement in component lifetime with Pure Storage

Transforming Coal-Mining Operations Through Data

BUMA, one of Indonesia’s largest coal-mining service providers with about 10,000 employees, was collecting massive sensor data from advanced equipment (often 50+ sensors per machine) that quickly outstripped its legacy storage. That data bottleneck was slowing condition-based monitoring, maintenance decision-making and personnel deployment across diverse sites, threatening operational reliability and inventory efficiency.

Deploying Pure Storage FlashArray//M50 and the Evergreen model gave BUMA high-speed all‑flash storage, superior compression, seamless upgrades and built‑in predictive analytics. This enabled real‑time equipment‑health monitoring, faster cross‑analysis with personnel data and proactive fault detection—driving a 180% improvement in average component lifetime, reduced spare‑parts inventory and capex, faster query response and stronger operational reliability for regional expansion.

BUMA

Edwin Rene

Manager of IT