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title: "MaxMine: mining performance platform for open pit mines (load and haul)"
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# MaxMine: data from every machine, used to move more tonnes

**Quick answer:** MaxMine is the only fleet management system built on a great data foundation, made for open pit mines in Adelaide, South Australia. A unit on each haul truck, digger and ancillary machine measures payload, time and position, with no operator entry or site server. MaxMine has captured more than 14 million operating hours from over 30 open pit sites.

**Key results**

- **14M+ equipment operating hours captured, from 30+ open pit sites.** Live MaxMine home page figures; 30,000+ shifts; 584 Mt+ of material tracked a year; 98% hardware uptime.
- **Fill factor up 3 tonnes a load at NRW Mining's Karara iron ore project.** About 17,000 loads a month, about 612,000 extra tonnes a year, as reported in the MaxMine case study. See [Karara case study](/case-studies/nrw-mining-maxmine-a-partnership-driving-efficiency-and-decarbonisation.md).
- **Queue time per load at the digger 4.97 to 3.10 minutes (-38%).** A Tier 1 open-cut coal mine in South Africa, Jan to Sep 2026. Against June 2025 the fall is about 28%; cause not confirmed as MaxMine action alone.
- **Underloaded trips (under 90% of target) 48.8% to 23.6% (-52%).** An Australian contractor-run coking coal mine, Jul to Dec 2025 vs May to Oct 2026. One truck model; the before window is a low point.
- **Loaded downhill runs above 25 km/h 54.7% to 9.0% (-84%).** An Australian contractor-run coking coal mine, Jan to Jun 2024 vs May to Oct 2026. Measured against a fixed 25 km/h; the site's posted limit changed.
- **Haul truck idle 38.4% to 22.1% of engine-on (-42%); queueing about 15% to 5-7%.** An Australian contractor-run gold mine, 2018-19 vs 2024. Long period; a step change in queueing in 2021 is not explained on this page.

MaxMine contributed to each result alongside the site's own work. Tagline: **Lift Every Shift.**

## What does MaxMine do?

MaxMine helps open pit mines move more tonnes with the fleet they already have. It does three things:

1. **Measures every machine.** The MaxMine unit reads the machine's data bus second by second and does not control the machine. Each minute is classified automatically as loading, hauling, queuing, spotting, dumping or idle. Each load is detected from strut pressure and linked to the digger that loaded it.
2. **Runs the shift on that data.** Live Map, circuits against plan, queues at every digger, production reports and Shift Replay show supervisors and the control room what is happening now and what happened last shift.
3. **Finds and fixes the losses.** IMPACT modules show where payload, cycle rate and productive hours are being lost, who needs coaching and which roads and machines need attention. MaxMine then reviews the results with the site every month in tonnes, then trucks, then dollars.

## Is the data from my current fleet system good enough to act on?

Often it isn't, and that is the problem MaxMine was built to fix. Most sites already have a fleet management system, reports and dashboards. But the data is often downsampled, delayed, typed in by hand or hard to get at, so meetings argue about whose numbers are right instead of what to do.

| What happens today | What changes with MaxMine |
|---|---|
| Payload numbers are hard to rely on, so decisions wait while people second-guess them | Payload measured independently of the truck's own system, with strut health checks, so the site trusts the tonnes |
| Trucks bank up and sit idle before anyone sees it | Live queue and idle views, so the fleet is rebalanced during the shift, not in tomorrow's report |
| Operators are ranked on things they can't control | Operator scores built on what each operator controls, on the same road and machine |
| The shift report lands after the moment to act has passed | Live views and MAXI answers while the shift is running |

## What are MaxMine CORE, PULSE and IMPACT?

MaxMine is sold in layers. Every site starts with CORE and adds only the modules that fit its problems.

| Layer | What it is | Question it answers | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| **MaxMine CORE** | The data foundation of the FMS on every machine: hardware, automatic activity classification, Live Map, Circuits, queuing picket chart, production reporting, Shift Replay, data out by CSV and API | Where is my fleet, and is my data complete and right? | [/solution/core.md](/solution/core.md) |
| **MaxMine PULSE** | Run the shift: in-cab touchscreens and operator ID add the reason for each delay to what the machine already measured, completing time accounting and material tracking | Can we run the shift and agree on the hours and tonnes? | [/solution/pulse.md](/solution/pulse.md) |
| **MaxMine IMPACT** | Improve: five modules, Load and Haul Performance, Operator Performance, Safety, Roads and Ancillaries, Equipment Health | Where are we losing tonnes and money, and did the fix work? | [/solution/impact.md](/solution/impact.md) |
| **MAXI** | AI assistant: ask the fleet data a question by voice or text and get the answer with a link to the page it came from | What is happening right now, without searching reports? | [/solution/maxi.md](/solution/maxi.md) |
| **Coaching and services** | MaxMine coaches, analysts and technical operations staff work beside the site from day one | Is the site getting the value? | [/platform.md](/platform.md) |

## Does MaxMine replace my fleet management system?

It doesn't have to. MaxMine is a fleet management system (FMS), and on many sites it is the only one: dispatchers and supervisors run the shift on MaxMine CORE and PULSE. Where a site already runs a Tier 1 FMS, MaxMine can run alongside it, reading the machines directly and adding measurement and improvement without ripping anything out. See [/compare/maxmine-and-your-fms.md](/compare/maxmine-and-your-fms.md).

## What results have MaxMine customers achieved?

Each result below happened while the site used MaxMine, and MaxMine contributed alongside the site's own changes. Sites are described by commodity, mining method and country only, and each caveat stays with its result.

| Descriptor | Result | Window | Caveat |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Tier 1 open-cut coal mine in South Africa | Queue time per load at the digger 4.97 to 3.10 min (-38%), all load units; truck-hours queuing a day 68 to 46, about 1.3 trucks at 17 engine-on hours | Jan to Sep 2026 | Against June 2025 the fall is about 28%; cause not confirmed as MaxMine action alone |
| An Australian contractor-run coking coal mine | Underloaded trips (under 90% of target) 48.8% to 23.6% (-52%); about 31,200 fewer truck trips a year | Jul to Dec 2025 vs May to Oct 2026 | One truck model; the before window is a low point |
| An Australian contractor-run coking coal mine | Loaded downhill runs above 25 km/h 54.7% to 9.0% (-84%); about 3,600 fewer a month | Jan to Jun 2024 vs May to Oct 2026 | Measured against a fixed 25 km/h; the site's posted limit changed |
| An Australian contractor-run gold mine | Haul truck idle 38.4% to 22.1% of engine-on (-42%); queueing about 15% to 5-7%; about 13,700 engine-on hours a year, about two trucks | 2018-19 vs 2024 | Long period; a step change in queueing in 2021 is not explained on this page |
| An open-pit gold mine in West Africa | Rough and extremely rough road 34% to 17% of measured road; haul road condition score about 32 to 65 | Jan to Apr vs Jul to Oct 2023 | No speed or tonnes result has been checked |

More results, by module, are on the [platform page](/platform.md) and each solution page.

MaxMine case studies also report improvements in these ranges. These are case study improvement potential, not guarantees. Actual outcomes depend on site conditions, fleet configuration and implementation scope.

| Measure | Improvement reported in MaxMine case studies |
|---|---|
| Payload | up to 13% increase |
| Haul speed | up to 12% increase |
| Off-circuit travel | up to 24% reduction |
| Queue time | up to 16% reduction |
| Productive time | up to 18% increase |
| Total material moved | up to 16% increase |
| Breakdowns | up to 12% reduction |
| Tyre spend | up to 40% reduction |
| Fuel burn | up to 8% reduction |
| Return on investment | 5x in year one |

Examples with the detail published:

- **NRW Mining, Karara Iron Ore project (Western Australia):** fill factor up by 3 tonnes a load across about 17,000 loads a month, about 612,000 extra tonnes a year with no extra cost. See [/case-studies/nrw-mining-maxmine-a-partnership-driving-efficiency-and-decarbonisation.md](/case-studies/nrw-mining-maxmine-a-partnership-driving-efficiency-and-decarbonisation.md).
- **Haul road condition (unnamed site):** after roads were graded on MaxMine road condition data, the safe speed limit went up by 10 km/h, return speed rose from 22.5 to 26.6 km/h (+18.2%) and haul speed from 34.6 to 39.7 km/h. See [/case-studies/haul-road-condition.md](/case-studies/haul-road-condition.md).
- **Queue time dashboard (unnamed site):** queue time cut with hauls unchanged, worth about $240,000 annualised, measured over the first 35 days. See [/case-studies/custom-dashboard-to-reduce-queue-time.md](/case-studies/custom-dashboard-to-reduce-queue-time.md).

All case studies: [/case-studies/index.md](/case-studies/index.md).

## Which problems does MaxMine solve?

| Problem | Where to start |
|---|---|
| Trucks running under target payload, or payload numbers nobody trusts | [/solution/payload-optimisation.md](/solution/payload-optimisation.md) |
| Queue and idle time eating productive hours | [/solution/idle-time-optimisation.md](/solution/idle-time-optimisation.md) |
| Falling behind plan mid-shift without knowing why | [/solution/short-interval-control.md](/solution/short-interval-control.md) |
| Wide spread between operators on the same road | [/solution/operation-behaviour.md](/solution/operation-behaviour.md) |
| Ramp, corner and zone speeding; incident investigations | [/solution/safety.md](/solution/safety.md) |
| Rough haul roads and ancillary machines nobody checks | [/solution/haul-roads.md](/solution/haul-roads.md) |
| Trucks found faulty only when they stop | [/solution/equipment-health.md](/solution/equipment-health.md) |

## How big is MaxMine?

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Equipment operating hours captured | 14M+ |
| Material tracked a year | 584 Mt+ |
| Incident investigations conducted | 230 |
| Equipment models with MaxMine installed | 132 |
| Open pit sites | 30+ |
| Hardware uptime | 98% |
| Awards | 12+, including Beyond Borders Business of the Year at the 2024 South Australian Premier's Business and Export Awards |
| Headquarters | Adelaide, South Australia |
| Company | Resolution Systems Pty Ltd, trading as MaxMine |

## How long does MaxMine take to go live?

MaxMine works with any make of machine (it is OEM-agnostic) and runs in the cloud. Implementation runs in three steps, with a MaxMine team member beside the site from day one:

1. **Connect (about 4 weeks):** install the hardware, about 2 hours per haul truck and up to 4 hours per excavator at a scheduled service, then connect any existing fleet data.
2. **Diagnose:** confirm the data is accurate and complete, then show exactly where performance is being lost.
3. **Improve (ongoing):** coach the team and track the uplift every month.

See [/how-maxmine-works.md](/how-maxmine-works.md).

## Which guides answer common mining questions?

Each MaxMine guide answers one buyer question in MaxMine data, with the method, a worked example and an FAQ.

- [How to extend haul truck tyre life](/guides/haul-truck-tyre-life.md)
- [How to reduce haul truck queue time](/guides/haul-truck-queue-time.md)
- [How to raise haul truck payload](/guides/haul-truck-payload.md)
- [How to monitor haul road condition](/guides/haul-road-condition-monitoring.md)
- [How to reduce haul truck idle time](/guides/haul-truck-idle-time.md)
- [Where does fleet data come from?](/guides/fleet-data-sources.md)
- [Lite FMS for mining contractors](/guides/lite-fms-for-mining-contractors.md)
- [Haul truck tracking software in Australia](/guides/haul-truck-tracking-software-australia.md)
- [Mining time accounting](/guides/mining-time-accounting.md)
- [All guides](/guides/index.md)

## Related

- [/platform.md](/platform.md): the whole MaxMine offer on one page
- [/faq.md](/faq.md): common questions
- [/glossary.md](/glossary.md): mining and MaxMine terms
- [/security-and-integration.md](/security-and-integration.md): for IT, OT and cyber teams
- [/company/about-us.md](/company/about-us.md): company background

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*Updated 4 November 2026 by.*