Authors: R.A. Morozov, V.A. Beklemeshev, V.A. Khazhiev, V.S. Baikin

Title of the article: Improving the operational reliability of a mining equipment system based on the risk of production process failure

Year: 2026, Issue: 1, Pages: 13-20

Branch of knowledge: 2.8.8. Geotechnology, Mining machines (engineering)

Index UDK: 658.51

DOI: 10.26730/1816-4528-2026-1-13-20

Abstract: This article presents the results of a study and analysis of the positive, long-term practices of managers and specialists at domestic mining companies, which have significantly improved the operational reliability of technological mining equipment systems with acceptable resource expenditure. It has been determined that successfully improving the reliability of a system is based on a specific sequence of transformations of elements and relationships throughout its entire structural hierarchy based on the risk of production process failure. This transformation sequence is characterized by a necessary condition: first, the more general elements and relationships of the system are transformed, namely, the relationships between equipment sets between process stages. Then, more specific elements and relationships at the level of equipment, units, assemblies, and components are sequentially modified. The article presents a developed framework for employee activities to modify the relationships between equipment sets at the process stages of a mining company, enabling significant improvements in the operational reliability of technological mining equipment systems with acceptable resource expenditure. The developed activity plan is based on the identified relationship between the magnitude of the risk of production process failure and the quality of management of the process of improving the operational reliability of a complex of technological mining equipment and the transformation of the identified management functions for improving the complex's reliability. The following functions were identified and are subject to transformation: planning and preparation of changes in the operation of equipment sets at technological stages to achieve the required operational reliability of the complex; information support for employees about changes in technological stages that lead to changes in the operational reliability of equipment in other technological stages; organization and control of interaction between employees of technological stages to achieve the required operational reliability of the complex.

Key words: mining equipment technological complex technological stage production process structure operational reliability process management risk of failure management functions management quality

Receiving date: 25.12.2025

Approval date: 14.01.2026

Publication date: 02.03.2026

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