Perth - Digital Mines conference

Melinda presented on why many predictive maintenance problems are a challenge for deep learning models

Maintenance is a huge spend
• Annual Capability Sustainment cost for Aus. Defence 2021-22 A$13.6 billion (excluding cost of Defence personnel)1 • Companies like BHP spent US$3.5 billion a year on maintenance 2
• The design, maintenance and operation of each asset generates a huge amount of sensor and text data over its life cycle • Unstructured text data about these assets is a significant resource