Case Study: a large mining operation and processing company prevents water supply pump failure with VROC predictive maintenance

AI predictive maintenance on Mining Water Supply Pump predicts failure with 7 days notice, saving up to $250,000

The customer, a large mining operation and processing company, faced the challenge of unexpected failures in its essential water supply pumps. These failures, caused by the coarse materials being pumped, led to costly unplanned downtime and production losses. To address this, they implemented the AI Predictive Maintenance platform from vendor VROC.

VROC's no-code AI platform automatically built models from pump data, identifying a gradual deviation in flowrate and an increase in a bearing temperature that indicated an impending failure. This provided the engineering team with a seven-day advance warning. The solution enabled planned maintenance, preventing any downtime and confirming the predicted root cause. This single incident resulted in an estimated saving of between $150,000 and $250,000 for the customer.