Searching for Best Practice Maintenance Strategies on a Small-Scale Coal Enterprise

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Mochamad Rafiq, Plant Manager at PT. Mandala Karya Prima, Indonesia, speaks to Mining IQ, about how to go about finding a suitable strategy for best practice maintenance strategies on a small-scale coal enterprise. He also shares his experience of how he goes about depicting small-scale mine asset management strategies for daily maintenance.

Mining IQ: How do you go about finding a suitable strategy for best practice maintenance strategies on a small-scale coal enterprise?

Mochamad Rafiq: Initially I was researching into the current strategy maintenance used here to see if any requirement to do some changes to get the better practice of maintenance strategies. Once everything was identified clearly, I then established a plan for improvement by putting in a timeline, a person in charge, and expected results. The most important things is changing the culture of people to focus on safety and productivity.

Mining IQ: What are some of the challenges focusing on the maintenance planning and organisation utilised on Sesayap Island of Borneo (1.5hrs far away from Tarakan Island by speed boat)?

Mochamad Rafiq: One challenge faced was that the organisation was not representing a minimum requirement to run the right maintenance organisation. Spending sometimes to restructure the organisation and appoint the right man and the right seat. I had to encourage a couple of experienced people from outside to employ them into the company and share the knowledge to my people to accelerate the improvement.

Mining IQ: In your experience how do you go about depicting small-scale mine asset management strategies for daily maintenance?

Mochamad Rafiq: Even though the scale of mine asset is not that big (2.8M ton of coal per annum), I did implement a process very similiar to what other corporates do out there. We have some basic processes for daily maintenance, e.g. daily refuelling/servicing at fuel farm, daily inspection, creating work order, record operator defect, fixing the backlog, execute some service scheduling, and daily plant meetings to discuss the progress againts the KPIs, etc.

Mining IQ: Could you please outline the importance of data collection for future maintenance projection?

Mochamad Rafiq: The data that is being gatherred for future use is for daily equipment downtime, daily fuel, oil, coolant and grease consumption, daily operator defect record from pre start check sheet, component replacement history, work order job sheet, component installation check sheet.