Development of a Condition Monitoring Plan for Detecting Equipment Failures in the Water Resources Area of a Mining Company
Subject Areas : Maintenance Planning
Rodolfo Canelon
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Felipe Rivera
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Keywords: Mining, Maintenance, Water resources, Condition monitoring,
Abstract :
The project aims to design a condition monitoring plan for a mining company's water resources equipment to reduce the likelihood of unforeseen and catastrophic failures. The proposed solution is to use condition monitoring based maintenance, which consists of taking parameters periodically with specific instruments to identify changes that indicate signs of failure. Inspection techniques such as vibration analysis and infrared thermography can be applied, depending on the parameter to be monitored and the failure mode to be detected. To validate the solution, the maintenance area inspected selected equipment for anomalies indicating possible failures. The results obtained with the application of the off-line monitoring system in the water resources area were satisfactory, as it was possible to detect faults in both the electrical and mechanical parts. In the electrical part, five anomalies were identified, two of them critical, while in the mechanical part, three anomalies were detected, two of them critical.
