Some Remarks on Using Condition Monitoring for Spatially Distributed Mechanical System Belt Conveyor Network in Underground Mine – A Case Study

The paper deals with application of condition monitoring and information system to maintain of complex, spatially distributed machinery system, namely belt conveyor transportation network, which consists of hundreds of drive units located on mine territory. There is simple question: what managers/engineers should do to ensure safe and efficient work of transportation machines? It has appeared that number of objects, their spatial location, specific structure of mining company, harsh environment, diversity of machines etc make this problem really complicated. It is obvious that there is a need to use specialized equipment, software but first of all set of procedures of data acquisition, validation, processing, storage, visualization, decision making, reporting etc, so in other words maintenance management. All these stages, combined and implemented as maintenance management software called Diag Manager (CMMS class) is discussed here.