Wireless Condition Monitoring for Remote Industrial Sites
Wireless condition monitoring: A common decision point for Australian industrial sites is not a lack of sensors; it is choosing between LoRaWAN and NB-IoT.
WearMon
Wear Detection for Mining Consumables: From Guesswork to Data
Wear detection: Wear liners are consumables, designed to be consumed. The hazard is that remaining thickness cannot be seen from outside: a liner is assessed.
Operations managers are drowning in expensive IoT dashboards that
Operations managers are drowning in expensive IoT dashboards that nobody looks at until a line goes down. Doing nothing means shift teams keep.
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Predicting Inner-Race Bearing Failure via Vibration Sidebands
A cracked inner-race bearing rarely announces itself through temperature. By the time a thermocouple or RTD on a SAG mill pinion bearing housing.
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Wireless sensor route loss and the stale-data blind spot
A condition-monitoring node on a SAG mill discharge bearing, a conveyor drive gearbox, or a control valve actuator can stop delivering data for two.
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Loose Foundation Bolt Resonance Shift Mistaken for Sensor Fault
A 2.4 MW SAG mill gearbox pinion bearing shows a rising 1× running-speed amplitude on its radial accelerometer. The vibration analyst raises a work.
Functional Safety Notes
Calibration drift changes loop gain and evades IEC 61511 alarms
A SAG mill discharge pressure transmitter reads 4.02 mA at zero gauge instead of 4.00 mA. The shift is 0.5% of span. It passes the loop check, the.
Case Studies
Tax breaks on exploration spending could mask level drift in dewatering circuits
The 2026-10-12 MINING.COM analysis “Geopolitical risk drives capital to private sector: analyst” (source: live-verified) describes capital rotating.
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Thermal-Tracking Lag and Motor Hotspot Development
A motor hotspot does not announce itself. Winding insulation degrades as a function of temperature and time, and the damage accumulates whether or.
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MQTT stream dropout during network handover: stale dashboard values
A SAG mill gearbox oil-temperature trend that stops updating is not obviously broken. The line holds flat at 71.4 °C, the last value the broker.