The challenges of monitoring mobile mining equipment

Unlike stationary machinery, monitoring mobile equipment brings substantial challenges that must be addressed to ensure accurate, repeatable, and reliable vibration data acquisition.

Unlike stationary machinery, monitoring mobile equipment brings substantial challenges that must be addressed to ensure accurate, repeatable, and reliable data acquisition. Rapid speed and load variations are just one element of the application. The logistics of sensor mounting, cabling, network communications, and general serviceability, bring unique complications to the task of monitoring these machines

In this paper, we will discuss these obstacles and present new solutions that have the potential to bring significant reliability improvements to large mobile equipment.