United States Open-Pit Mine

Empowering Operational Visibility with Real-Time Equipment Intelligence

How a U.S.-Based Gold Mine Leveraged Cascadia Scientific to Strengthen Maintenance Support and Fleet Monitoring

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The mine plans to expand its use of SmartRView by

Executive Summary

A major open-pit gold mine in the U.S. partnered with Cascadia Scientific to improve visibility into fleet health, road conditions, and operator performance. Starting with a pilot of six trucks, the program expanded to a full deployment covering 19 units and laid the foundation for proactive maintenance diagnostics and haul cycle optimization.

The Challenge:

Fleet-wide diagnostic information was available, but fragmented and underutilized. Site teams often relied on manual data entry and had no easy way to track recurring issues or support faster root cause analysis when problems arose. Key gaps included:

Manual engine hour tracking
Limited visibility into maintenance events and potential early-stage faults
Lack of available staff made it difficult to monitor truck performance manually.
Difficulty linking operational events (like stalls) to root causes
Need for a centralized reporting system to serve both operations and planning teams

The Cascadia Scientific Solution

Through the SmartRView platform, Cascadia Scientific provided the mine with:

Real-time diagnostic reporting and asset health trends
Daily haul cycle reports, including loading, travel, and dump segments
Road condition detection (racking, vibration, surging, rolling)
Baseline data to support eventual deployment of ML Coach for operator performance feedback

The mine’s fleet includes 19 Komatsu Haul Trucks, all now connected to Cascadia’s platform. Weekly summary reports and live dashboards have been developed and are now owned by the site’s analyst team.

“Trucks have issues every day. But when something unusual happens, we trust Cascadia to provide quick, reliable insights. That kind of trust matters.”

— Fleet Support Analyst

Supporting Maintenance—Not Replacing It

“Every Friday, I share summary reports with the team. The data gives us clarity, and more importantly, gives us a shared language for discussing what’s really happening in the fleet.”

— Site Analyst

In-Progress Benefits

Feature	Impact
Diagnostic Reporting	Faster issue triage & collaboration
Daily Cycle Summaries	Improved visibility for planning
Road Condition Detection	Highlights racking, vibration areas
Full-Fleet Integration	19 trucks under monitoring
Data Ownership	Dashboards owned by site analysts

Looking Ahead

The mine plans to expand its use of SmartRView by:

Integrating ML Coach to support operator benchmarking
Using Cascadia’s road condition insights to plan grading and smoothing
Automating reporting workflows that currently rely on manual input
Closing the loop between simulator training and field performance

Bottom Line: Building a Smarter Fleet, One Insight at a Time

This gold mine is in the early stages of a transformative process—one that replaces guesswork with diagnostic visibility and allows planners, operators, and maintenance teams to act from the same source of truth.

Even without immediate interventions, Cascadia’s tools are strengthening the customer’s ability to react quickly, plan confidently, and prepare for longer-term performance improvements.

If you’re ready to transform maintenance from reactive to strategic, we’re ready to help you get there.

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United States Open-Pit Mine

Empowering Operational Visibility with Real-Time Equipment Intelligence

How a U.S.-Based Gold Mine Leveraged Cascadia Scientific to Strengthen Maintenance Support and Fleet Monitoring

Cascadia Scientific

Executive Summary

The Challenge:

The Cascadia Scientific Solution

Supporting Maintenance—Not Replacing It

In-Progress Benefits

Looking Ahead

Bottom Line: Building a Smarter Fleet, One Insight at a Time

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