Best CMMS for Mining 2026

By the editors at Reliable. Last updated October 22, 2026.

Updated October 2026: Ellipse EAM is shown as Hitachi Energy's product, and the former Hexagon and Infor EAM entries are now Octave Attune EAM.

The short version: Mining is one of the most operationally extreme CMMS verticals. Heavy mobile equipment fleets, remote and harsh sites, MSHA inspection and record duties under 30 CFR, and OEM telematics ecosystems (Cat MineStar, Komatsu Komtrax Plus, My Sandvik, Epiroc Certiq) all change vendor selection. General-purpose CMMS platforms rarely succeed in mining at scale.

Hitachi Energy's Ellipse EAM, the former Mincom Ellipse, leads the category on mining heritage: Hitachi names mining on the product page and ships more than 150 preconfigured business processes. SAP S/4HANA Asset Management fits SAP-standardized majors, and SAP's own pages carry the largest named mining deployment on this list (BHP's 1SAP, 80,000-plus users). IBM Maximo is the pick for IBM-standardized operators. Micromine Pitram, now a Weir company, serves mine control and fleet management; Komatsu's MineCare covers mobile equipment health across mixed fleets; Cat MineStar Health is the choice for Caterpillar-equipped operations. Octave Attune EAM, the product this guide listed as both Hexagon EAM and Infor EAM in April, is the mid-market choice for smaller mines and aggregate producers.

Choose by operation type (surface, underground, aggregate), OEM equipment profile, ERP standard, and operational scale, and treat horizontal CMMS rankings as a starting point only.

How We Evaluated

This guide is independent editorial analysis based on publicly available product documentation, verified customer reviews across G2 and Capterra, hands-on product demonstrations, and conversations with reliability engineers, fleet maintenance managers, and operations leaders across copper, gold, iron ore, coal, lithium, and aggregate operations. Reliable does not sell CMMS or EAM software and has no commercial interest in routing buyers toward any particular platform. Reliable does not accept payment for rankings. Vendors may sponsor enhanced listings with additional detail, but editorial rankings are independent. Read our editorial policy.

We evaluated each platform across six criteria that matter most for mining CMMS decisions:

• Heavy mobile equipment integration: depth of support for haul trucks, shovels, dozers, drills, and LHDs, including OEM-specific maintenance workflows, judged by what each vendor's own pages name

• OEM telematics handshakes: integration quality with Cat MineStar, Komatsu Komtrax Plus, My Sandvik, and Epiroc Certiq, judged by what each vendor names

• MSHA compliance support: pre-operation inspection workflows, defect records, and audit readiness for the 30 CFR duties that land on maintenance

• Remote and offline capability: mobile usability at remote pit locations, underground operations, and arctic or desert sites with limited connectivity

• ERP integration: handshake quality with SAP S/4HANA, Oracle, and other ERPs common in mining majors

• Track record at scale: mining deployments as each vendor's own pages and newsrooms name them

Why Mining CMMS Is Different

Mining CMMS selection differs from general industrial CMMS evaluation in four ways.

First, heavy mobile equipment dominates the asset base in ways uncommon outside the industry. A typical open-pit copper or iron ore operation runs fleets of haul trucks (Caterpillar 793 and 797, Komatsu 930E and 980E, Liebherr T 282), shovels and excavators (Caterpillar 7495, Komatsu PC8000, Hitachi EX5600), wheel loaders, dozers, drills, and graders. Underground operations add LHDs (load-haul-dump units), jumbos, scalers, and underground haul trucks. Each piece of equipment has manufacturer-specific maintenance workflows, OEM-supplied parts catalogs, factory-recommended PM intervals, and warranty considerations that fixed-plant CMMS handles poorly. Platforms with mining-specific equipment masters and OEM workflow support save substantial configuration overhead.

Second, remote and harsh operating environments make mobile capability the first filter. Open-pit mines often span thousands of acres with intermittent cellular coverage. Underground operations run beyond cellular range entirely. Arctic and desert mines face temperatures that punish device hardware. A CMMS that needs a live connection to execute work orders fails in these environments. Offline mobile capability with reliable sync (photo capture, GPS tagging, electronic signatures) is operationally critical.

Third, MSHA's rules under 30 CFR put specific inspection and record duties on U.S. mine maintenance. At surface metal and nonmetal mines, which include sand, gravel, and crushed stone operations, 30 CFR 56.14100 requires the equipment operator to inspect self-propelled mobile equipment before it is placed in operation each shift, requires defects that make continued operation hazardous to be taken out of service and tagged, and requires safety defects not corrected immediately to be reported to and recorded by the mine operator, with the records kept at the mine until the defects are corrected; 57.14100 applies the same duties underground. At surface coal mines, 77.1606 requires a competent person to inspect mobile loading and haulage equipment before it is put in operation and defects affecting safety to be recorded and corrected before the equipment is used again. In underground coal mines, 75.512 requires electric equipment to be examined, tested, and maintained by a qualified person, with records kept, and 75.512-2 sets the frequency at least weekly. A CMMS that captures pre-operation checks, routes defects to work orders, and keeps the records where an inspector can find them does this work; one that does not leaves it on paper. International operations face equivalent frameworks, including Canadian provincial mining regulations and Australian state mining safety acts.

Fourth, OEM telematics ecosystems are woven into mining operations in ways uncommon elsewhere. Cat MineStar Health connects to machine electronics for health and performance data, with Product Link Elite Data Streaming pushing more than 150 data points in an open format. Komatsu's Komtrax Plus (the former VHMS) covers its large mining machines with health assessments, service meter readings, fault summaries, fuel, payload, and duty cycle data. Sandvik's My Sandvik Insight and Productivity services and Epiroc's Certiq cover their drills and underground equipment. CMMS integration with these systems converts time-based PMs into usage-based PMs triggered by actual operating data. Platforms with mature OEM integrations win on operational fit; platforms without them require custom integrations that often produce data quality problems.

The 7 Best CMMS Platforms for Mining in 2026

1. Hitachi Energy Ellipse EAM — Best for Mining Overall

Ellipse is the product this guide meant in April when it listed "Hexagon EAM (formerly Mincom Ellipse)" at number one, and the lineage needs correcting. Mincom, the Brisbane software company whose Ellipse system became the mining industry's reference EAM in the 1990s, was acquired by ABB on July 29, 2011; ABB described Mincom as "specializing in solutions for mining and other asset-intensive industries." Ellipse passed with ABB's power grids business to Hitachi, and today Hitachi Energy sells Ellipse EAM inside its Asset and Work Management suite. Hexagon never owned Mincom or Ellipse. The product Hexagon sold as Hexagon EAM was the former Infor EAM, which is now Octave Attune EAM and appears at number seven.

Hitachi Energy positions Ellipse EAM for utilities, transportation, mining, and public infrastructure, with asset lifecycle management from capital planning through decommissioning, supply chain and materials planning, corporate and financial management, business analytics, a computerized maintenance management system, mobile inspection capture in the field, more than 150 preconfigured business processes, "decades of proven deployments across global operations," alignment with ISO 55000, SaaS or on-premises deployment, hybrid cloud, PostgreSQL, and modern APIs. On January 28, 2026 Hitachi announced it is reinventing Ellipse on Microsoft Dynamics 365, Fabric, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and Foundry, citing "40 years of EAM expertise," with Hitachi Solutions as implementation design partner.

The trade-off is what Hitachi does not say. Its Ellipse pages name no mining customer, no OEM telematics integration, no offline mode, and no heavy mobile equipment module, and the January 2026 release talks about electricity networks, transportation corridors, and heavy industrial operations without the word mining. The mining heritage is real and the product is current, but buyers should ask Hitachi Energy for recent mining references and for the status of their site's version in the Microsoft rebuild before signing. The April customer list (BHP, Rio Tinto, Anglo American, Newmont, Barrick, Freeport-McMoRan, Vale, Glencore, Antofagasta, First Quantum) appeared on no vendor page and is gone; the one mining major with a named EAM deployment on a vendor page in this guide is BHP, on SAP.

Best for: Mining operators that want the EAM with the longest mining lineage, run as SaaS or on-premises, and are prepared to verify current mining references and the Microsoft roadmap directly with Hitachi Energy.

Pricing: Custom enterprise quotes; Hitachi Energy publishes no list prices.

2. IBM Maximo Application Suite — Best for IBM-Standardized Operators

IBM Maximo is the strongest mining alternative for operators already standardized on IBM, and this entry now describes what IBM publishes. IBM's current product pages carry no Maximo for Mining solution and no mining industry page; IBM's Maximo Application Suite components list names Manage, Health, Monitor, Predict, Visual Inspection, Mobile, MRO Inventory Optimization, Real Estate and Facilities, and the Health, Safety and Environment application, and its pricing page lists industry solutions by tier without naming mining. The "Maximo for Mining" brochure that still circulates is a 2011 IBM document naming Leighton Contractors, Port Waratah Coal Services, Sandvik, and Vale.

What IBM does publish that bears on mining: Sandvik, the underground equipment OEM, appears in IBM's case study library as a Maximo Application Suite customer (filed under manufacturing); Shell and IBM's OREN platform for decarbonizing mining is the library's only entry labeled mining; Maximo HSE names incident management, permit to work, lockout/tagout, management of change, and contractor safety; Maximo Monitor and Health take sensor data for condition-based maintenance; and the suite runs mobile task management. For mining operators inside larger industrial groups standardized on Maximo across several businesses, the enterprise consistency advantage is the reason to choose it. The April customer list (Newmont, Barrick, Teck Resources) appeared on no IBM page and is gone.

The trade-off is mining-specific depth. IBM names no mining equipment master, no OEM telematics connector, and no MSHA workflow; the OEM data path runs through Maximo Monitor's device and historian integrations, which a mining integrator configures. Maximo's AppPoints licensing starts at an entry tier capped at 25 users.

Best for: Mining operators standardized on IBM Maximo across multiple businesses, mining operators in larger industrial conglomerates, and operations where Maximo is the corporate standard.

Pricing: Published for the entry tier only. Maximo Application Suite Essentials (Maintenance) starts under US$40,000 a year for 150 AppPoints, one environment, and up to 25 users on a twelve-month minimum term; Standard SaaS starts at 300 AppPoints and is quoted; Premium and client-managed software are quoted.

3. SAP S/4HANA Asset Management — Best for SAP-Standardized Mining Majors

SAP S/4HANA Asset Management is the strongest mining CMMS for operators standardized on SAP across ERP, supply chain, finance, and procurement, and it carries the largest named mining deployment of any vendor in this guide. SAP's Australia and New Zealand Best Tech Awards 2025 case study describes BHP's 1SAP landscape converting from ECC to S/4HANA in a single shell conversion that went live on April 20, 2024, covering more than 80,000 employees and contractors, 90 global locations, 14 countries, and 2,823 business processes, with a move from IS-Mining to IS-Oil and an upgrade to BW/4HANA. SAP's mining learning material adds Lithium Americas (S/4HANA to unify production, procurement, financials, and asset management), Lundin Gold (Fruta del Norte, mobile warehouse on SAP ERP for a site without reliable internet), and CMOC (S/4HANA as digital core).

The integration case is the same as in every SAP-standardized industry: work orders flow from financial controls through procurement to execution and back without middleware, and SAP procurement handles the high-value parts and consumables buying that dominates mining economics. SAP names no mining-specific equipment master, no MSHA workflow, and no OEM telematics connector on the pages checked, so those are configuration and partner work. One path has closed: SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (MII), which the April version of this guide named as SAP's telematics bridge, leaves mainstream maintenance on December 31, 2027, with extended maintenance to 2030 and SAP Digital Manufacturing as the successor. Operators planning usage-based PMs from telematics in S/4HANA should look at SAP Asset Performance Management, which SAP sells with embedded IoT through Cumulocity IoT and closed-loop integration back to SAP EAM, or at a direct connector.

The trade-off is implementation complexity for operators not already running SAP; the integration advantage disappears and the other platforms here deliver better mining-specific value.

Best for: Mining majors standardized on SAP S/4HANA across ERP, supply chain, finance, and procurement, where native integration outweighs mining-specific feature depth.

Pricing: Custom enterprise pricing as part of SAP S/4HANA licensing; SAP Asset Performance Management is metered in blocks of 100 objects per year. SAP publishes no list prices for either.

4. Micromine Pitram — Best for Mine Control and Fleet Management

Micromine Pitram occupies a distinct position in the mining software market, and its owner has changed: Weir Group completed its acquisition of Micromine on April 30, 2025 (announced February 28, 2025) at an enterprise value of £624 million (A$1.31 billion), with Micromine reported inside Weir's ESCO division under a new Digital Solutions division led by Kristen Walsh, and Weir plans to combine it with its MOTION METRICS and NEXT intelligent solutions. Micromine describes Pitram as "a comprehensive mine control and fleet management solution (FMS)" that consolidates data on equipment, material, locations, and people for near-real-time decisions across underground and surface operations.

Pitram's own pages name two offering tiers (Network-Enabled and Voice-Enabled Productivity), Pitram Mobile, peer-to-peer operation, Pitram Connect, Pitram Vision (AI-powered LHD cycle tracking), a Shift Planner, Material Management, Controlled Areas, 3D Mine, Pitram Positioning, a Time Usage Model, rules-based data capture, and the PRIS open API for autonomous fleets, conveyors, and weighbridges; Micromine calls it OEM-agnostic and cites more than 60 implementations across 9 commodities and 14 countries. Named customers are Cayeli Bakir (Turkey; 18 percent productivity increase, 8 percent more production tonnes), Sandfire MATSA (Spain; fleet grew from 50 to 220 units), Rana Gruber (Norway), and Lundin Gold (Ecuador); all vendor figures.

The trade-off is operational scope. Pitram is a mine control and fleet system, and Micromine's pages do not describe work order management, parts inventory, or asset lifecycle; operations need a separate CMMS or EAM for those, and Micromine names no SAP, Maximo, or EAM connector on the pages checked, so the handoff is API work. Buyers who evaluate Pitram as a CMMS will find it incomplete for that purpose.

Best for: Mining operations prioritizing real-time fleet management, short-interval control, and production tracking, deployed alongside a primary CMMS.

Pricing: Custom quotes; Micromine publishes no list prices.

5. Komatsu MineCare — Best for Mobile Equipment Health and Condition Monitoring

MineCare, the Modular Mining product Komatsu now presents under its Smart Mining maintenance and reliability offering, occupies an adjacent position to Pitram. Komatsu describes the MineCare Maintenance Management System as real-time equipment health monitoring that aims to "Identify potential component issues before they become catastrophic failures," with alarms, historical trend reporting, root cause analysis, role-based dashboards, and proactive component monitoring. The point most relevant to mixed fleets: Komatsu calls it an "OEM-agnostic platform with 280+ OEM interfaces" that can "Monitor your entire mixed fleet regardless of manufacturer."

Komatsu's page says MineCare integrates with maintenance planning workflows and connects condition data to "work order and planning systems," without naming SAP or Maximo. Its results are anonymized Komatsu MTS customer figures: US$1.25 million a year in avoided downtime and parts, an 11.6 percent increase in shovel availability, nearly 21 percent less unplanned maintenance, and a 53 percent increase in mean time between failures, with the caveat that results vary by site. Komatsu also states that maintenance can reach 40 percent of an average mine's operating cost.

The trade-off is the same architectural reality as Pitram: MineCare is an equipment health platform, and operations need a CMMS or EAM for work order management and asset lifecycle. The right architecture deploys both.

Best for: Mining operations with large mobile equipment fleets prioritizing condition-based maintenance and equipment health analytics, deployed alongside a primary CMMS.

Pricing: Custom quotes; Komatsu publishes no list prices.

6. Cat MineStar Health — Best for Caterpillar-Equipped Operations

Cat MineStar Health is Caterpillar's equipment health family for mining, and Cat's pages describe it as connecting directly to machine electronics to monitor health and performance, compare each machine with the fleet or benchmarks, predict failures, and receive repair recommendations. The portfolio has two layers: connectivity enablers (Product Link Elite, Product Link Elite Data Streaming, VIMS Forwarder, VIMS Converter, VIMS Telemetry) and applications (Health Equipment Insights, Health Office, Technician Toolbox). Cat states that Product Link Elite Data Streaming pushes more than 150 data points over ethernet in an open format, VIMS Telemetry gives third-party serial access to up to 92 operating parameters and events, and VIMS Converter exports readable CSV files for the customer's chosen system.

Two April claims are corrected. Cat's pages do not limit the applications to Cat machines: Health Equipment Insights is described as working with "equipment from other manufacturers" through a browser. And Cat's pages checked do not name fluid analysis, component genealogy, or warranty management as MineStar Health features, so those claims are gone. What remains true is that the depth of machine data comes from Caterpillar being both the OEM and the software vendor.

The trade-off is that MineStar Health is an equipment health and data platform, not a work order system. Cat names no CMMS or EAM connector; the data reaches "Cat or third-party systems" through the enablers above, and the primary CMMS still handles cross-OEM work orders, parts, and asset records. Operations running Komatsu, Liebherr, or Hitachi alongside Cat will still want the OEM platform for each class.

Best for: Mining operations with substantial Caterpillar mining equipment populations seeking OEM-grade equipment health data alongside a primary CMMS.

Pricing: Request a price through a Cat dealer; Caterpillar publishes no list prices for MineStar Health.

7. Octave Attune EAM — Best Mid-Market Choice for Mining

Octave Attune EAM is the product this guide listed as Infor EAM in April, and also the product the April number one entry called Hexagon EAM. Infor sold its EAM business to Hexagon in 2021 (announced July 6 for about US$2.75 billion, completed October 1, with nearly 3,500 customers); Hexagon renamed it HxGN EAM; Hexagon then spun its asset lifecycle software out as Octave Intelligence plc, which completed the separation on May 22, 2026 and listed on Nasdaq New York (OCTV) on May 28, 2026. Octave's product page carries "Formerly HxGN EAM" and says the core functionality is unchanged. Readers who see Infor EAM or Hexagon EAM in RFP templates are looking at one product.

Attune EAM is a cloud-based EAM with asset hierarchies and risk calculations, work order management with built-in calibration, requisitions and purchase orders, reliability-centered maintenance, a mobile app for work requests, notifications, and inspections, 2D CAD and 3D digital twin support, an embedded AI assistant, and named support for fleets (maintenance history, inventory, automated work orders), facilities, critical equipment, and linear assets with geospatial tracking. Octave's Metals and Mining industry page positions the company across exploration, processing, distribution, and closure, names Attune APM, Tempo, Reliance, and Sequence, cites Salobo Mine and AGL Energy under "Real-world results," and mentions collision avoidance and fatigue monitoring among its safety tools; Attune EAM itself appears there only in the contact form. Octave names no OEM telematics connector and no MSHA workflow on the pages checked.

The trade-off is positioning. Octave's mining page leads with engineering, APM, and operations products, and the company is newly independent. Mid-market mines and aggregate producers get a mature EAM with fleet and mobile support; they should ask Octave for mining references on Attune EAM itself. The April timelines (three to nine months) and asset-count thresholds had no source and are gone.

Best for: Mid-market mining operations, aggregate producers, single-mine operations, and intermediate metals operators where deployment speed and cost matter alongside mining capability.

Pricing: Custom enterprise quotes; Octave publishes no list prices..

Mining CMMS Comparison Table

Choosing by Mining Type: Surface, Underground, Aggregate

Mining CMMS selection differs across the three primary operation types. Each has distinct operational realities that change the platform fit.

Surface Mining Operations

Surface mining covers open-pit operations across copper, gold, iron ore, coal, lithium, and other commodities. Asset bases are dominated by ultra-class haul trucks, large electric and hydraulic shovels, drills, dozers, graders, and mobile crushers. CMMS requirements emphasize heavy mobile equipment fleet management, OEM telematics integration with Cat MineStar and Komatsu Komtrax Plus, tire program management, 30 CFR 56.14100 pre-operation inspections and defect records (77.1606 at surface coal mines), and integration with dispatch systems for real-time operations. The named surface references on vendor pages are BHP (SAP S/4HANA, 80,000-plus users), Lithium Americas and CMOC (SAP), Cayeli Bakir and Sandfire MATSA (Pitram), and Vale's Salobo Mine (Octave).

Underground Mining Operations

Underground mining covers hard-rock metals (gold, copper, nickel, zinc), coal mining (longwall and continuous miner), and specialty operations (uranium, salt, potash). Asset bases include LHDs, jumbos, scalers, raise borers, ventilation equipment, underground haul trucks, and electrification infrastructure. CMMS requirements emphasize My Sandvik and Epiroc Certiq telematics integration, 57.14100 inspection and defect records, the Part 75 electrical examination duties at coal mines, ventilation system reliability tracking, and offline mobile capability beyond cellular range. Pitram's Vision module tracks LHD cycles underground, and Lundin Gold's Fruta del Norte appears on both SAP's and Micromine's pages. No vendor on this list names an underground-specific CMMS configuration on the pages checked.

Aggregate Operations

Aggregate operations (sand, gravel, crushed stone, limestone) differ substantially from metals and energy mining. Operations are typically smaller scale, more distributed (regional networks of pits and quarries), and more cost-sensitive. Asset bases include mobile crushers, screens, conveyor systems, loaders, and trucks. One correction to the April version: aggregate producers are MSHA-regulated under the same Part 56 as surface metal mines, including the 56.14100 pre-operation inspection and defect record duty; the compliance load is lighter than coal's Part 75 and 77 regime and lighter in scale, not absent. CMMS requirements emphasize cost control, faster deployment, and multi-site coordination across pit networks. Octave Attune EAM and mid-market platforms generally deliver better value for aggregates than Tier 1 mining-specific platforms.

How to Choose the Right Mining CMMS

Beyond mining type, four questions determine the right platform for a specific operation.

1. What is your OEM equipment profile?

Operations standardized on Caterpillar mining equipment should evaluate Cat MineStar Health alongside the primary CMMS for OEM-grade equipment health data. Operations standardized on Komatsu should connect Komtrax Plus and consider MineCare, whose 280-plus OEM interfaces also cover mixed fleets. Mixed-OEM operations should ask each CMMS vendor for its current telematics connector list: none of the three EAM vendors here (Hitachi Energy, IBM, Octave) names a Cat, Komatsu, Sandvik, or Epiroc connector on the pages checked, and SAP names none either, so the integration is partner or custom work and should be scoped before contract. The OEM ecosystem decision is one of the most consequential mining CMMS variables and one of the most often underestimated during procurement.

2. What is your ERP standardization?

Mining majors standardized on SAP across ERP, supply chain, and finance should evaluate SAP S/4HANA Asset Management as the default choice because the integration eliminates middleware overhead; BHP's 1SAP conversion is the reference case. Operators standardized on Oracle, IBM, or other ERPs should evaluate IBM Maximo, Hitachi Energy Ellipse, or Octave Attune EAM with proven integration to their ERP (Octave's own FAQ describes maintenance costs flowing into ERP financials and ERP procurement linking to EAM work orders). Mid-market operators without strong ERP standardization should evaluate Octave Attune EAM or Ellipse at the appropriate tier.

3. What is your operational scale?

Major mining operators with 25,000+ assets across multiple mines should evaluate Hitachi Energy Ellipse, IBM Maximo, or SAP S/4HANA as the default choices. Intermediate operators with 5,000 to 25,000 assets should evaluate Ellipse as SaaS, Maximo Application Suite as SaaS, or Octave Attune EAM depending on operation type and OEM profile. Smaller operators with under 5,000 assets (aggregate producers, single-mine operations, intermediate metals operators) should evaluate Octave Attune EAM or IBM's Essentials tier. Trying to deploy enterprise platforms at smaller scale frequently produces overengineered implementations.

4. What is your fleet management architecture?

Operations where short-interval control and real-time fleet management are operationally critical should plan to deploy Pitram or MineCare alongside the primary CMMS and should not expect the CMMS to handle these functions. The integration overhead is real but smaller than the gap between CMMS fleet capabilities and dedicated fleet management depth; Pitram's PRIS API and MineCare's work order and planning system connections are the documented handoffs. Operations where fleet management is less time-sensitive can rely on CMMS fleet capabilities with telematics integration.

The Honest Middle Ground

Mining CMMS is a category where the wrong choice creates significant operational and financial risk because the operations are large, capital-intensive, and unforgiving of system failures. A few honest assessments worth flagging.

Operations sometimes try to use general CMMS platforms. Mid-market mining operators occasionally deploy MaintainX, Limble, or similar general-purpose CMMS because they're more visible in the broader CMMS market. The deployments typically fail or remain shallow because the platforms lack mining-specific equipment masters, OEM telematics integration, MSHA workflows, and the depth needed for heavy mobile equipment maintenance. Ellipse, Maximo, SAP, and Octave Attune EAM are the right candidates for serious mining operations regardless of their lower visibility in horizontal CMMS rankings.

Three of the seven platforms here are not CMMS. Pitram, MineCare, and Cat MineStar Health are mine control, equipment health, and OEM data platforms, and each vendor's own pages describe them that way. They earn their places because mines run them alongside an EAM, and the architecture that works is primary CMMS plus the specialty platforms the operation needs. Operations that try to make the CMMS handle fleet management, equipment health, work orders, parts, and asset lifecycle at once typically end up with shallow capability in each.

OEM platform integration is consistently underestimated. Cat MineStar Health, Komatsu Komtrax Plus, My Sandvik, and Epiroc Certiq generate operational data that should flow into the CMMS for usage-based maintenance triggering, and the OEM pages describe the data, not the CMMS connector. Operations that do not invest in this integration end up with calendar-based PMs that are less accurate than usage-based PMs. The integration is operationally complex but the return is substantial.

This guide's own April version got the market map wrong. It credited Hexagon with Mincom's Ellipse heritage and listed one product twice under two names. The mining EAM market is smaller than it looked: Ellipse (Hitachi Energy), Maximo (IBM), S/4HANA Asset Management (SAP), and Attune EAM (Octave) are the four EAM platforms here, and the mining majors' named deployments on vendor pages are far thinner than vendor marketing implies. Ask every vendor for a current mining reference you can call.

Aggregates need a different conversation. Most "best CMMS for mining" content focuses on metals and energy mining and ignores aggregate operations. Aggregate producers (sand, gravel, crushed stone) have operational realities much closer to mid-market manufacturing than metals mining, while still carrying Part 56 inspection and record duties. The right platforms for aggregates are usually Infor EAM, scaled-down Hexagon, or even MaintainX Premium for smaller operations. Both of the first two names now mean Octave Attune EAM. Tier 1 mining-specific platforms are usually over-scoped for aggregates.

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Sources

• Hitachi Energy: Ellipse EAM; Hitachi reinvents Ellipse Enterprise Asset Management solution with Microsoft's AI-enabled technology, January 28, 2026

• ABB: ABB completes acquisition of Mincom, July 29, 2011

• IBM: Case studies, IBM Maximo Application Suite; Health, safety and environment (HSE) software with IBM Maximo; Pricing, IBM Maximo Application Suite

• SAP: BHP, Best Tech Awards 2025, Intelligent ERP; Explaining How SAP Creates Value for the Mining Industry

• Infosys: Navigating the post-SAP MII era, 2026 white paper

• Micromine: Micromine Pitram

• Global Mining Review: Weir completes acquisition of Micromine, April 30, 2025

• Komatsu: Turning fleet data into smart maintenance (MineCare); Komtrax Plus

• Caterpillar: Cat MineStar Health; MineStar Health, MINExpo 2024

• Octave: Octave Attune EAM; Metals and mining industry solutions; Octave Intelligence plc Listed on Nasdaq New York, May 28, 2026

• Hexagon: Hexagon to acquire Infor's EAM business, July 6, 2021

• Sandvik: Sandvik telemetry and My Sandvik digital services

• Epiroc: Certiq telematics

• MSHA (30 CFR, via Cornell LII): 56.14100 Safety defects; examination, correction and records; 77.1606 Loading and haulage equipment; inspection and maintenance; 75.512 Electric equipment; examination, testing and maintenance

Last updated: October 22, 2026. This guide is editorial analysis by Reliable. No vendor paid for ranking consideration or editorial input.