Ground engaging tool monitoring is what turns a raw measurement into a maintenance decision. Missing GET teeth are found by walk-around inspection, or by the crusher itself, and that gap is where the damage happens.
What the problem really costs
Illustrative, not a customer figure: if one unplanned crusher event costs $50,000, one prevented detachment repays the monitoring many times over.
S5 System’s GETsmart embeds a sensor in the GET, so a tooth leaving its adapter reports over a wireless link upstream of the crusher and can drive a pre-crusher alarm or interlock.
Where the ground engaging tool monitoring approach differs
Built by S5 System Pty Ltd (s5system.com); published by S5 Consultants, our assurance arm.
How do you spot missing teeth before they become a crusher problem?
Getting started
Ground engaging tool monitoring is not a technology decision, it is an operating decision. The sites that get value from it pick one or two assets that genuinely matter, instrument them properly, and wire the result into a maintenance routine somebody already owns. Start with the failure that costs the most per hour of downtime and work outward from there.
That sequence — one asset, one measurement, one owner — is what separates a programme that survives its first review from another pilot that quietly stops reporting. The engineering is rarely the hard part; sustaining the routine is.
If you are weighing options, bring the failure mode and the cost of an hour of downtime. Those two numbers are enough to scope a first deployment and to judge whether it earned its place at the next budget review.
Where this fits
Related S5 capability: GETsmart product page.
Cross-published from the S5 System LinkedIn stream (2026-10-06). Follow us on LinkedIn for the original post.
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