Conveying

Challenge: As an arterial system in your process, your bulk conveyors are the lifeblood of mine productivity. Any disruption in their service has the potential to bring your process rolling to a stop. Mines with long, overland conveyors are especially susceptible to long periods of unplanned downtime when conveyor components fail. Determining failure mode can be time consuming and obtaining replacement parts can take days for miners in remote locations. Along with regular cleaning and inspections, your staff may perform periodic data collection on conveyor pulleys and gears. However, this practice frequently places them in harm’s way – capturing data that may or may not expose emerging machinery faults. 

 

Solution: Emerson is helping a wide variety of mining companies around the world to minimize unplanned conveyor downtime. Using the Emerson CSI 6500 condition-based monitoring system, your staff can continuously monitor critical drives, gearboxes, and pulleys from the safety of a centralized operations center. The CSI 6500 exposes elevating machinery stress with a patented signal processing approach and surfaces real problems to your staff for corrective action. For a safe and cost-effective data collection approach on semi-critical components, the Emerson CSI 9420 wireless vibration transmitter supplies regular readings on equipment condition. Your maintenance staff can gain a view of emerging problem areas with information from both your online and wireless monitoring systems using a common software interface in Emerson's AMS Machinery Manager software.