Mining
Cut maintenance delays. Recover supervisor hours. Keep production moving.
Your supervisors should not be spending half the shift chasing pre-start forms, reconciling haulage reports, checking contractor paperwork, or rebuilding production dashboards by hand.
MVP.dev builds AI automation systems for mining operators, quarries, aggregates producers, exploration teams, and mining contractors that plug into the tools you already use, including Caterpillar MineStar, Wenco, Modular Mining DISPATCH, Hexagon MineOperate, Deswik, Maptek Vulcan, GEOVIA Surpac, Micromine, SAP PM, IBM Maximo, Pronto Xi, Ellipse, AVEVA PI System, SafetyCulture, Cority, and Intelex.
We help mining teams reduce manual reporting, speed up maintenance triage, tighten contractor controls, and give supervisors back the hours they need to keep the pit, plant, and crews moving.
Production-ready in 3 to 4 weeks.
Get a Workflow Fit Assessment See the Mining Automation DemosBuilt for mining teams with production targets, thin admin capacity, and too many manual handoffs
This is for mine operators, quarry operators, aggregates producers, exploration companies, mineral processing teams, and mining services contractors that already have systems in place but still lose hours to manual coordination, reporting, reconciliation, and compliance follow-up.
You are likely a strong fit if:
- Supervisors still chase pre-starts, inspections, JHAs, or shift notes across paper, email, and apps
- Maintenance planning depends on manual review of defects, work orders, parts notes, and equipment history
- Daily production reports require exports from fleet, dispatch, plant, weighbridge, and ERP systems
- Contractor onboarding, tickets, permits, insurance, and inductions are checked manually
- Your team uses MineStar, Wenco, Modular Mining, Deswik, SAP PM, Maximo, Pronto Xi, or a similar mining stack
- You want workflow improvement inside your current systems, not a disruptive software migration
If your operation is growing but shift handovers, maintenance decisions, and production reporting still depend on manual chasing, there is almost certainly time, uptime, and margin trapped inside the workflow.
The fastest wins we usually find
Maintenance triage before small defects become downtime
Not every defect report needs the same attention. But the costly ones need to surface fast.
We build maintenance triage workflows that read pre-starts, inspection notes, operator comments, fault codes, work orders, and equipment history, then rank issues by risk, urgency, asset criticality, and likely production impact.
The goal is simple:
- Critical defects surfaced before the next shift loses hours
- Low-risk items grouped for planned work
- Supervisors see the reason for each priority
- Work orders routed to the right planner or maintenance lead
For many sites, this can cut 8 to 15 hours a week of manual defect review and help reduce avoidable equipment delays by 10 to 20 percent once the triage rules are tuned to your fleet and maintenance process.
See the Maintenance Triage Demo →Production dashboards without spreadsheet rebuilding
The numbers already exist. The problem is that they live in too many places.
We build production dashboards that pull from fleet management, dispatch, plant systems, weighbridge exports, fuel data, maintenance systems, and ERP reports, then produce a short shift, daily, or weekly operating narrative.
Each update can show:
- Tonnes moved, processed, and shipped
- Equipment availability and utilization
- Downtime by asset, area, or cause
- Variance against plan
- The three issues most likely to affect tomorrow's target
The goal is to replace 3 to 6 hours of manual report building per reporting cycle with a dashboard and operator-ready summary that managers can review quickly.
See the Executive Dashboard Demo →Contractor and vendor checks before work or payment moves forward
A missed insurance certificate, expired induction, wrong rate, or bad invoice can create cost, safety, and compliance problems.
We build contractor and vendor review workflows that compare invoices, dockets, POs, contracts, insurance documents, site access records, rate cards, and approval rules before work is cleared or payment is approved.
Your team gets a clear answer:
- Is this contractor approved for this site?
- Are insurance, tickets, and inductions current?
- Does the invoice match the PO, contract, docket, or rate card?
- Should this be approved, reviewed, or escalated?
This turns contractor and vendor checking from a manual scramble into a repeatable control, often saving 6 to 12 admin hours a week while reducing payment and compliance exceptions.
See the Contractor Review Demo →SOP, safety, and compliance answers with cited sources
Crew leaders should not have to search five folders for the current procedure while equipment is waiting.
We build cited-answer systems over approved SOPs, SWMS, JHAs, permits, MSDS documents, OEM manuals, maintenance procedures, incident learnings, environmental obligations, and site rules.
Every answer includes a source trail so teams can verify it before acting.
- No blind AI answers
- No unsupported safety guidance
- No guessing which procedure is current
This can reduce supervisor and planner search time by 20 to 30 percent on document-heavy questions, while keeping answers grounded in your approved materials.
See the Cited Knowledge Base Demo →Your current tools stay in place
We build the workflow layer around your existing mining environment.
Supported and common systems include:
Your fleet data stays where it is. Your mine plans stay where they are. Your maintenance, ERP, safety, and environmental systems stay in place.
We add the workflow layer that reads, routes, reviews, summarizes, and writes back when appropriate.
Three focused offers
Maintenance Delay Reduction System
For sites losing too much production time to slow defect review, messy handovers, and reactive maintenance decisions.
Includes
- Maintenance workflow mapping
- Pre-start and inspection intake
- Defect classification
- Asset criticality rules
- Work order routing
- Exception queues
- Planner-ready summaries
Best for
- Open pit mines
- Quarries and aggregates sites
- Mobile equipment fleets
- Sites with recurring downtime bottlenecks
Production Reporting and Shift Handover System
For teams manually rebuilding production, downtime, and variance reports from too many systems.
Includes
- Fleet and plant data connections
- Shift report intake
- Downtime and delay summaries
- Plan versus actual views
- Manager dashboards
- Daily operating narratives
- Workflow handoff documentation
Best for
- Mine managers
- Operations superintendents
- Processing teams
- Multi-site operators
- Contract mining teams
Contractor Control and Compliance Review System
For operators checking tickets, inductions, insurance, invoices, dockets, and approvals through messy manual processes.
Includes
- Contractor document intake
- Induction and ticket checks
- Insurance and compliance review
- Invoice and docket comparison
- PO and contract matching
- Approval routing
- Audit logs
Best for
- Sites with heavy contractor usage
- Mining services companies
- Remote operations
- Operators with manual vendor and compliance review
Start with one workflow. Prove the ROI. Expand from there.
You do not need a full AI transformation project to get value.
The safest path is to pick one painful workflow, automate it, measure the results, and then expand once the system proves itself.
Most mining teams start with one of these:
- Maintenance defect triage
- Daily production reporting
- Shift handover summaries
- Contractor compliance review
- Invoice, docket, and PO matching
- SOP and safety document retrieval
This keeps the first project focused, measurable, and easier to approve.
Typical engagement range
Most mining automation builds start with a focused pilot.
Starter Workflow Pilot
Best for one high-value workflow
$7,500 to $15,000
Mining Automation Buildout
Best for multiple workflows, sites, or operational systems
$15,000 to $40,000
Ongoing Optimization and Support
Best for operators that want continuous improvement, reporting, new workflows, and support
$1,500 to $7,500 per month
Final pricing depends on workflow count, system access, data complexity, approval rules, site requirements, and whether the workflow writes back into production systems.
The first step is not a giant commitment. It is a workflow fit assessment that identifies the fastest path to measurable ROI.
What waiting costs
Manual mining workflows do not just waste admin time. They create delays that show up in tonnes, maintenance backlog, contractor costs, and supervisor capacity.
Every month you delay:
- Supervisors spend time chasing paperwork instead of managing the shift
- Maintenance teams review too many low-risk items while critical defects compete for attention
- Production reports arrive late or require manual spreadsheet rebuilding
- Contractor issues are caught after the work is done or the invoice arrives
- Shift handovers depend on memory, emails, and inconsistent notes
- New site capacity requires more coordinators instead of better workflows
If your team is already stretched, automation is not a luxury project. It is how you create capacity without simply adding more admin headcount.
How the engagement works
Week 1: Find the highest-value leak
We review your maintenance triage, production reporting, contractor review, shift handover, or document retrieval process.
You get:
- Workflow map
- Automation opportunity ranking
- KPI targets
- Fixed-scope recommendation
- Implementation plan
We define success before building anything.
Week 2: Build against your real workflow
We connect to the systems, documents, exports, forms, approval rules, equipment lists, contractor records, or production data needed for the selected workflow.
We build around your actual site process, not a generic mining template.
Week 3: Test, tune, and review
We run real historical examples through the workflow in staging. For maintenance workflows, this can include prior defects, work orders, downtime notes, and pre-start records so the system can be tested against known outcomes.
You see:
- Accuracy results
- Exceptions
- Failure cases
- Confidence thresholds
- Review queue behavior
- Estimated time savings
Nothing goes live until the workflow is validated.
Week 4: Deploy, monitor, and support
We deploy the workflow, train the relevant users, monitor initial results, and support the first production cycle.
You get:
- Production workflow
- Dashboard or review queue
- Documentation
- Admin handoff
- 30 days of support
- Recommendations for the next workflow
Most builds are designed to pay back in 6 to 8 weeks of live use, depending on site volume, labor cost, workflow scope, and how much supervisor, planner, or admin time is recovered.
Built for safety-critical and commercially sensitive operations
Mining workflows have to be controlled, auditable, and safe to use around operational decisions.
Our systems are designed around:
- Least-privilege access
- Encrypted data in transit and at rest
- Human review thresholds
- Audit logs for AI-assisted decisions
- Source-grounded answers for procedures and compliance documents
- Client-owned cloud deployment when required
- No silent work order, payment, or compliance approval below confidence threshold
- Clear separation by site, asset, contractor, department, and role
For operators with MSHA, OSHA, ISO 45001, ISO 14001, SOC, contractor compliance, environmental reporting, or commercial confidentiality requirements, we design the implementation around your controls from the start.
Example outcomes
| Workflow | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Maintenance defect triage | Supervisors and planners manually review every pre-start note and defect report | Critical items prioritized, low-risk items grouped, work orders routed for review |
| Daily production reporting | Fleet, plant, downtime, and weighbridge data rebuilt in spreadsheets | Dashboard and manager-ready operating narrative generated from connected sources |
| Contractor compliance | Tickets, insurance, inductions, and site access checked manually | Exceptions flagged before mobilization, approval, or payment |
| Shift handover | Handover depends on emails, whiteboards, radio notes, and staff memory | Structured handover summary with open issues, risks, delays, and next actions |
| SOP and safety lookup | Crew leaders search folders for the current procedure or manual | Cited answers from approved SOPs, manuals, permits, and safety documents |
Why MVP.dev
MVP.dev builds AI business operating systems, internal tools, and automation layers for companies that need real operational outcomes, not AI experiments.
You get:
- 25 years of software architecture and delivery experience
- AI automation strategy and implementation under one roof
- Practical systems built around existing workflows
- Human-in-the-loop design where accuracy matters
- Clear KPIs before development starts
- Production-minded delivery, not prototype theater
The goal is not to impress your team with AI.
The goal is to recover supervisor time, reduce operational drag, improve visibility, and help the site produce more value with the people and systems it already has.
Building the operating playbook too?
Our partners at osforyour.business/mining cover the org-design, process, and people side of running a modern mining operation. We handle the execution layer that makes it run, so the system they help you design actually delivers the hours back.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much time or money can this save?
It depends on site volume, but mining workflows usually have savings in maintenance triage, production reporting, contractor review, and document retrieval. A single site may recover 10 to 25 supervisor, planner, or admin hours per week. If the workflow reduces even a few avoidable equipment delays per month, the value can be much higher. Conservative pilots often target $2,500 to $10,000 per month in labor savings or avoided delay cost before expanding.
Will this work with our fleet, maintenance, and planning systems?
Usually, yes. We build around your current stack, including systems like MineStar, Wenco, Modular Mining, Hexagon MineOperate, Deswik, SAP PM, Maximo, Pronto Xi, AVEVA PI, and safety or contractor platforms. Where APIs are available, we use them. Where they are not, we can work with approved exports, reports, secure file drops, or database views.
Will this replace MineStar, Wenco, Deswik, SAP, Maximo, or our safety system?
No. The goal is to improve the workflow around your current systems, not force a migration. Your fleet, planning, ERP, maintenance, safety, and environmental systems stay in place. The automation layer reads, routes, summarizes, and writes back only where appropriate and approved.
Can this handle multiple sites, pits, fleets, or contractors?
Yes. Each site, fleet, asset class, contractor, or department can have its own rules, access, dashboards, and approval routing. Regional managers can also get a unified view while keeping site-level controls in place.
Is AI making safety or maintenance decisions?
No. The system can classify, recommend, summarize, route, and prepare actions, but review thresholds control what happens next. For safety, compliance, maintenance, and payment workflows, AI-assisted outputs should be treated as recommendations until reviewed or approved by the right person.
How do you handle security and operational risk?
We design the system around your security, safety, and compliance requirements. That can include encryption, audit logs, least-privilege access, role-based permissions, client-owned cloud deployment, source trails, human review controls, and separation by site, asset, contractor, and role.
What is the first step?
Start with a workflow fit assessment. We identify the workflow with the highest ROI potential, estimate the time, cost, or delay impact, and recommend a focused pilot. You will know what should be built, why it matters, what it should cost, and how success will be measured before committing to a full implementation.
Get the hours, uptime, and margin back
If your team is still relying on manual defect review, spreadsheet-based production reporting, contractor document chasing, or folder searches for procedures, there is likely a faster way to run the operation.
MVP.dev can help you identify the highest-value workflow, build the automation layer, and deploy it inside your current mining stack.
Get a Workflow Fit Assessment See the Mining Automation Demos