Case Study: World’s Leading Resources Company achieves 24/7 rail availability and reduced asset downtime with Smartpath

Loc8 Empowers Multinational Resources Corporation's Iron Ore Supply Chain in Australia

World’s Leading Resources Company is a diversified, multinational resources corporation headquartered in Melbourne and London, operating large‑scale iron ore mining and heavy‑haul rail in the remote Pilbara region. Facing the challenge of reliably recording, controlling and returning thousands of locomotive and ore‑car assets to service from its Port Hedland workshops, the customer selected Smartpath to deliver an enterprise asset and damage management solution—implemented as the Loc8 Enterprise edition tailored for rail operations.

Smartpath configured and integrated Loc8 Enterprise with existing rail systems (including Rail Historian) to provide intelligent asset lifecycle, component tracking and damage management, plus mobile field dispatch and reporting. The solution enables 24/7 monitoring of almost 400,000 measurable assets and components (managing 100+ locomotives and ore cars with 53 components each), driving process efficiencies, reduced asset downtime, improved utilisation and greater revenue generation through faster return‑to‑service and proactive maintenance.