Industries that rely their production output on physical assets cope with the trade-off between maximizing operational time while minimizing maintenance to avoid equipment breakdowns. In an uncertain market environment, it is not said that the optimal maintenance policy would remain fixed.

To study the issue, we reproduce a simplified mine environment employing a virtual counterpart that resembles a digital twin (DT) of the system allowing us to study the effects of maintenance planning decisions on the overall profitability. Different system configurations are tested, and the probability to run the mine profitably is estimated with all the combinations of system configuration and maintenance policy in an uncertain market environment.