Category: Condition Monitoring

Techenomics International is taking its cutting edge oil and fluid analysis technology to the Pilbara, opening a new laboratory in Newman. The new lab will deliver an unprecedented level of access to Techenomics’ world-class fluid management and condition monitoring services to the mining, transport, marine, power and industrial sectors of the iron ore sector and wider Pilbara client base. With a consistent trajectory of market growth, Techenomics has already expanded its reach by building several subsidiaries throughout Australia, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Mongolia, Turkey, South Africa and Russia. And now the company’s new facility delivers an unprecedented level of testing and analysis in the Pilbara. It brings together experience and new ways of thinking, enabling mining companies and OEMs to deliver…

WHEN Tui Industries CEO Jason Sulzberger decided he wanted to improve the way vibration monitoring of machinery was done, he knew where to start. With 60pc of time taken up in collecting data, and a lack of consistency in the data even before it could be analysed and diagnosed, he set his team to the task of eliminating the need for manual field monitors. The result is the development of a sensor system that is continually on-line, allowing the time previously used in data collection to be applied to analysis and monitoring of the condition of machinery in a plant. The Tui system allows the vibration monitoring to be completely controlled by external experts, who can focus solely on the…

IMAGINE being able to have your best production day every day. This is now a reality thanks to developments in big data acquisition and modelling, machine learning, prediction and simulation software and a dramatic increase in the accuracy delivered by all these tools. Welcome to the new era of digital twinning an entire mine. Typically, mine optimisation was conducted in silos – drilling, blasting, crushing, recovery, milling etc. – looking at individual decision choices and set points within a plant to achieve the best results in that specific centre. However, by utilising historical and current data from the entire mine value chain, modelling the whole process and then relating it back to the individual geology blocks, it is possible to…

The CareTaker ALRS can be retrofitted to any vehicle. EQUIPMENT Placement’s patented CareTaker ALRS design has been developed specifically to address the ongoing issues associated with fluid sampling methods, and to remove safety hazards for operators and service personnel. Equipment Placement co-founder and director Brian Bondi told the Australian Mining Review that there has been many variants of the project since its conception, but that it was product developer Jason Bondi who took the theory behind the objectives and transformed the product into the CareTaker ALRS. And now, after more than one year of field testing, the CareTaker ALRS has hit commercial production and is hitting every target the Equipment Placement team set. The concept was designed by Fluid Transfer…

Proof Engineer’s Road Condition Monitors are bringing big data to road maintenance. BIG data is the new frontier of the modern mine site. It is fast becoming the competitive advantage in the never-ending struggle against inefficiency on site, and the breakthroughs that big data can give us have been breathtaking. Predictive maintenance through real-time monitoring is perhaps the single biggest area for efficiency improvement in the Australian mining industry, and haul roads are no exception. During the average service life of a haul truck, it will need tyre replacements that will equal the value of the truck, due to the extreme load placed on tyres and the damaging conditions of roads. Haul road maintenance has long been a tedious job…

COMPREHENSIVE condition monitoring systems can mean the difference between expensive, unplanned downtime waiting on replacement parts, and a planned preventative maintenance schedule with minimal disruption to workflow. Problems or malfunctions in plant and equipment operation often become apparent through changes in vibration behaviour, unusual temperature patterns or noise emissions. Reliability and condition monitoring specialists, Schaeffler, have almost 20-years’ experience in this field and primarily use vibration, temperature and acoustic emission diagnosis to detect damage or abnormal wear in machinery at a very early stage, so that these components can be repaired or replaced as part of planned downtime.  Costly unscheduled downtime is therefore minimised. Depending on the type of machine and its importance in the production process, condition monitoring can…