Successful Condition Monitoring on Cranes, Turrets and other Historically Inaccessible/Impractical Machinery

Many of the machines in the mining and metals sector do not lend themselves to conventional condition monitoring approaches. They operate intermittently, under varying load and speed conditions, may rotate only over partial arcs, employ very slow travel velocities, and are often not safely or practically accessible for manual data collection. These factors combine to result in non-trivial challenges for effective condition monitoring. This presentation explores the successful techniques used on two such machines: overhead cranes at Ternium where downtime costs exceed US$230k/hr and slewing assemblies commonly found in ladle turrets where downtime routinely approaches US$300k/incident.

Mr Sergey Kornichuk | Bently Nevada