CONDITION MONITORING FOR MINING EQUIPMENT. DEVELOPMENTS IN CONSTRUCTION, FORESTRY AND MINING EQUIPMENT, SAE ENGINEERING CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, NATIONAL SCIENCE CENTRE, MELBOURNE, OCTOBER 21-22, 1986

Condition monitoring on mining equipment presents maintenance managers with an opportunity to lower equipment operating costs, improve availability and profit potential. At the same time however, unless carefully managed, condition monitoring has the potential to create unnecessary cost impositions and may even be counter productive to higher mechanical availability. There exists today a variety of condition monitoring tools and techniques which are appropriate for mobile equipment, some of which are discussed in this paper. Whatever tool or technique is employed it will normally fit into one of four major monitoring categories: physical inspection, performance criteria, wear particles in oils, vibration analysis. This paper reviews examples of current condition monitoring "tools" within each of these four categories, the management discipline required and also reviews some of the future directions for computerisation of today's condition monitoring techniques. For the covering record of the conference see IRRD 808801. (Author/TRRL)

• Corporate Authors:

  Society of Automotive Engineers

  191 Royal Parade
  Parkville, Victoria 3052,   Australia 
• Authors:
  • Neilson, H C
• Publication Date: 1986-10

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 10.1-11
• Serial:
  • Publication of: Society of Automotive Engineers (Australasia)
  • Publisher: Society of Automotive Engineers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Construction equipment; Costs; Information processing; Inspection; Machines; Management; Mining; Monitoring; Performance; Vibration; Wear
• Uncontrolled Terms: Condition monitoring
• Old TRIS Terms: Mining machines
• ITRD Terms: 155: Administration; 6155: Apparatus (measuring); 8525: Conference; 9006: Continuous; 2248: Decision process; 3674: Equipment; 6136: Measurement; 5117: Mine; 143: Planning; 9101: Surveillance; 1575: Vehicle inspection
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Finance; Highways; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00475709
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 31 1988 12:00AM