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Cutting arms are the main productive units of coal shearer machine that contact directly with coal seam. More importantly, the cutting arms operate under a high-stressed environment. In this paper, in order to suggest an optimum maintenance plan for the subsystem of shearer machine, firstly, we conducted a failure and reliability analysis using the data acquired from the Parvade coal mine, Iran over the two years. The analysis shows that the Power Law Process model provides a good fit to the failure data. Also, we applied estimated distribution functions and calculated cost parameters to identify the cost-based optimum preventive maintenance interval. Furthermore, we conducted a sensitivity analysis of the studied machine and identified that if we consider the variation of the world price of the raw coal then the maintenance plan is sensitive to the price. The analysis showed that, big changes in world price of raw coal are not so effective on maintenance plan but have a considerable effect on maintenance costs of the cutting arms of the shearer machine. However, the effects of this change on reliability improvement are almost zero. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In this article, the reliability of the cable system of a drum shearer machine was studied and analysed using operation and maintenance data from an Iranian mine for a period of two years. The tests for trend and serial correlation show that the times between successive failures for the cable system are not independent and identically distributed. A goodness-of-fit test shows that the power law process model provides a good fit to the failure data of this system. After parameter estimation for the power law model, reliability and failure rate plots were obtained. Based on analysis and results, a period of 125 h was defined as the reliability-based maintenance interval for the cable system of the shearer. The analysis shows that, by using this strategy, the reliability of the system will improve by at least 50%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The reliability and maintainability of electrical system of drum shearer at Parvade.1 Coal Mine in central Iran was analyzed. The maintenance and failure data were collected during 19 months of shearer operation. According to trend and serial correlation tests, the data were independent and identically distributed (iid) and therefore the statistical techniques were used for modeling. The data analysis show that the time between failures (TBF) and time to repair (TTR) data obey the lognormal and Weibull 3 parameters distribution respectively. Reliability-based preventive maintenance time intervals for electrical system of the drum shearer were calculated with regard to reliability plot. The reliability-based maintenance intervals for 90%, 80%, 70% and 50% reliability level are respectively 9.91, 17.96, 27.56 and 56.1 h. Also the calculations show that time to repair (TTR) of this system varies in range 0.17∼4 h with 1.002 h as mean time to repair (MTTR). There is a 80% chance that the electrical system of shearer of Parvade.1 mine repair will be accomplished within 1.45 h. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]