Life Cycle Services for mining

Mining services delivering performance and sustainability outcomes

Think further--focus on what matters. Mining maintenance is complex, as it requires a wide range of capabilities and directly affects productivity and the bottom line of your plant. Metso Life Cycle Services enable you to increase focus on your critical procedures and achieve your goals more efficiently. Team up with Metso LCS to unlock the full potential of your minerals processing operations.

Scale the expertise

Tackle talent scarcity with expertise and intelligent tools and be better equipped for changing requirements and targets.

Share the risks

Protect your investments and avoid unplanned turnarounds while saving costs and optimizing the ROI of your critical assets.

Focus on growth

Exceed your productivity and sustainability targets by improving stability, pushing for optimization, and enabling growth.

Outcome-oriented

Fixed fee and performance-based solutions with strict KPIs designed for your specific targets.

Circular economy

With a service contract in place, achieve longer life for equipment, wear parts and spares resulting in less waste.

Proven

Over 500 Life Cycle Services contracts delivering results globally.

Up to 69%

less time for shutdowns - less time spent on dangerous tasks.

Choose Life Cycle Services for mining and focus on what really matters

To maintain and increase productivity of your mine, you need to ensure high equipment and process reliability and availability. Solid maintenance strategies and practices enable getting the best out of your operations, but occasionally circumstances may limit your efforts. Metso Life Cycle Services (LCS) partnerships can help you remove bottlenecks and lift productivity to a new level with standardized, outcome-driven solutions, including mutual commitment to your targets and even risk-sharing.

The LCS solutions build on the full range of Metso aftermarket portfolio and can additionally include Metso equipment alike. They focus on a specific goal or a continuous improvement your site’s performance and sustainability long-term. An integral part of the LCS solutions are the payment options which range from fixed fees to performance-based schemes, fitting your business objectives and specific needs.

Metso offers LCS solutions for well over 15 years, and currently there are more than 500 active partnerships.

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Life Cycle Services are designed to support your long-term success through a trusted partnership built on shared goals. Together, we drive continuous improvement with collaborative models that deliver value beyond individual transactions.

Life Cycle Services that scale with your specific needs

We define the LCS solutions in close collaboration with you to identify a partnership that works for you the best. Metso has unique end-to-end expertise in minerals processing, and our LCS offering is not limited to Metso equipment only.

The LCS partnerships focus on delivering

stability,
optimization and
growth

through LCS solutions which aim to solve customer’s issues related to

parts,
equipment,
or overall flowsheet or process island.

Life Cycle Services that scale with your specific needs

How Life Cycle Services work

Everything starts with increasing the understanding of the challenge at hand.

What are your targets?
What are the things that keep you from reaching them?
For example, are there issues with the availability of parts, equipment performance or process stability?

Metso LCS partnership offers you additional capacity on top of your inhouse capabilities and our experts collaborate with you to identify the core issues, define a solution, and deliver the desired outcome.

The strengths of a genuine partnership

Metso LCS has three levels of partnerships which evolve according to the agreed targets and outcomes.

Stability is the baseline partnership level featuring the LCS solutions ensuring stable parts supply, keeping equipment in good working condition, and reducing variations and interruptions in the production process.
Optimization partnership level covers the LCS solutions for optimizing parts for certain uptime or lifetime, maximizing equipment availability and enhancing the overall production processes.
Growth is the most comprehensive partnership level where the LCS solutions focus on enhancing wear parts to maximum specified throughput, ensuring that equipment is operating at peak performance to scale up operations, and committing to the production circuit throughput and product quality by taking a larger responsibility of the operations.

From parts to entire minerals processing plants

Metso LCS solutions are designed to deliver measurable outcomes on your specific operational targets by stabilizing, optimizing, or driving growth for the selected technology scope. The technology scope of an LCS solution is focused either on spare or wear parts, equipment, or process island, and the outcomes maintaining or improving:

parts’ readiness, uptime, or throughput
equipment stability, availability, or productivity
production process island stability, optimization, or output.

Whether you are looking for a partner who masters just the parts or someone to support you with the full flow sheet for Metso or a third party supplied equipment, Metso Life Cycle Services partnerships and solutions scale with your needs – with strict KPIs.

KPI-driven sustainability improvements

Teaming up with Metso LCS can help you improve your site's sustainability initiatives when optimizing the long-term efficiency of your operations. For instance, Metso LCS can help you reduce energy consumption, optimize water consumption, minimize waste, and extend the lifetime of your assets. We provide refurbishment programs for parts and equipment, and recycling solutions for parts that have reached the end of their useful life. Metso Life Cycle Services can bring benefits to your operation over the entire life cycle of your minerals processing plant operations.