Solution · Mining & material handling
Conveyors and Material Handling
Use contact and distributed fibre sensing to observe acoustic events along conveyors and selected drive locations.
Supports event detection and maintenance review; precise location and fault classification remain site-validation outcomes.
Scope a conveyor pilot
Buyer questions
Define the application before selecting the system.
- 01
Which conveyor sections have the highest consequence of failure?
- 02
Is fibre access available along the monitored route?
- 03
What location resolution and alarm workflow are required?
Evaluation workflow
A pilot should reduce uncertainty in a deliberate order.
The sequence below is a planning framework. Exact sensing, coverage and acceptance criteria are site-specific.
01
Prioritize the route
Identify conveyor sections, drive locations and operating conditions with the clearest maintenance consequence.
02
Select observation points
Review fibre access and candidate contact locations against site access and installation constraints.
03
Establish the baseline
Collect representative operating states and record the context needed to interpret changing acoustic observations.
04
Validate the workflow
Define how a surfaced event is reviewed, correlated and accepted before it enters maintenance action.
Authorized source-case field image. Installation configuration is project-specific.
Evidence boundary
Location and classification are validation outcomes, not universal promises.
Route, coupling, background conditions, operating state and baseline quality all shape what the system can surface. A pilot should record these variables and keep maintenance review in the decision path.
See the source-supported caseConveyor pilot
Bring the route, the operating context and the maintenance question.
We can use those three inputs to decide whether an acoustic pilot is practical and what evidence it should produce.