The authors conducted the analysis of the peculiarities on the destruction of rock formations by means of tunneling and mountain combine tools. They specify key criteria for choosing the rational parameters of cutting executive bodies in mountain combines. The article lists the factors influencing the efficiency of mine rock cutting. It is noted that the key drawback of mountain massif destruction with cutting is that consecutive elementary rock chips separation occurs under the influence of compression loads. The least energy-intensive way of destruction of rocks is a method that involves the destruction of mountain massifs chiefly under the influence of tensile loads, that is, by detachment. A design is proposed which is a combined executive body of the tunneling and cleaning unit including a bar executive and two-sided hydrocylinders-tractors installed inside the bar beam. The operation principle and procedure of the proposed executive body are described. The use of the proposed executive body will allow one to destroy the mountain massif in the most energy-efficient way ensuring high productivity and the lowest specific consumption of cutters.

The paper analyzes the reasons for the failure of tangential rotary cutters of tunneling machines when carrying out rock heading of medium-hard rocks. It has been found that the most characteristic reason for cutter bit failures is the premature wear of the tool holder (body). It is known that increasing its hardness is the most effective way to increase the wear resistance of a material. The effect of thermomechanical processing of the body material on its hardness and wear resistance is studied. It has been found that the thermomechanical processing of the cutter bit body material results in an increase in its hardness and wear resistance. It has been found that the decrease in wear rate is proportional to the deformation of the material during thermomechanical processing. It has been concluded that thermomechanical processing of cutter bit bodies would increase their wear resistance.

Qualification of employees who operate technological processes directly influences the safety of production. However, the employees’’ qualification cannot completely exclude human factor.
Today, there are many technologies that can minimize or eliminate human factor impact on production safety ensuring. The augmented reality technology is an example of this technology.
Nowadays, the augmented reality technologies and industrial technologies integration process moves to a new level of development. These technologies have huge experience, which has been accumulated in a long period of time. -This new level turns available by this experience combination and integration; it brings additional profit to the enterprise and can be a basis for completely new technologies. This paper shows an example of combination of augmented reality technology and oil pumps maintenance. For researching of efficiency of augmented reality system for oil pump maintenance, the laboratory unit with Grundfos vertical electric centrifugal pump (CR15-4 A-FGJ-AE-HQQE) was used. The laboratory unit is a physical model of one of the continuous oil processes. The oil pump of this laboratory unit is object of this research. The algorithm of servicing of oil pump was developed. The test of system and algorithms were carried out with four groups of people: the first one had only instructions to use on hand, the second one only used the internal recommendations of the system, the third one used only the help of an expert, and the fourth used internal recommendations and, if necessary, contacted the expert. The results show the efficiency and actuality of augmented reality technology for maintenance of industrial equipment, especially for the equipment operated in remote Arctic conditions.