Significant portion of the annual calendar fund-time work of mining excavators spent on maintaining its working condition by carrying out preventive and repair regulatory activities and recovery in the event of emergency failures and maintenance and repair expenses constitute a significant proportion of the cost of excavation of mining rock. To assess the effectiveness of machinery a non-standard indicator, the coefficient of technical readiness, applied which does not have a single assessment methodology. At the present stage of machinery development, existing quarry dispatching systems allow you to allocate any of its elements from the fund-time of mining excavators: productive time, time spent in repair and maintenance and also classify other time costs of a particular machine which allowed an appropriate analysis. Analysis showed that at the current organization of MaR (maintenance and repair) there is significant potential to reduce repair impacts, as well as to ensure a reduction in the cost of routine maintenance, to remove maintenance and repair measures from the category of costly ones, at least for self-sufficiency without compromising the quality of these works and the reliability of the excavator as a whole. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.