What Is Mining Asset Management?
Mining asset management is the systematic process of tracking, inspecting, maintaining, and optimizing the equipment, structures, and infrastructure that mining operations depend on. In surface mining this includes haul trucks, loaders, drilling rigs, conveyors, crushing and screening equipment, and processing plant machinery. In underground mining it extends to ground support systems, ventilation infrastructure, hoisting equipment, underground vehicles, and structural elements of the mine workings themselves.
Effective mining asset management is both an operational and a safety imperative. Equipment that is not properly tracked, inspected, and maintained creates production risk through unplanned downtime and creates safety risk through failures in the field. MSHA and provincial mining regulators impose specific inspection and documentation requirements on mining equipment and infrastructure. Meeting these requirements consistently requires a structured system, not paper forms and spreadsheets.
Field Eagle delivers mining asset management software designed for the specific challenges of mining environments. The platform runs on tablets, operates fully offline for underground and remote surface locations where connectivity is unavailable, and connects every inspection directly to the asset record and maintenance system behind it.