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E-MAINTENANCE OF MINING MACHINERY:

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Aditya Tiwari and Dr K. Pathak , UG student, Department of Mining Engineering, NIT
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Raipur, Professor Mining Engineering, IIT Kharagpur
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oday's mining is implementation and exploitation of advanced technology in machines, explosives and moni-
toring. Exciting and innovative technology products are continuously being introduced to be used by the field
Tengineers. Selecting the right equipment and having its maximum capacity utilized is becoming a challenge
today. Maintenance of machinery is a very critical area particularly when its economic and financial implications
are considered. With the increasing complexity of operations being carried out by machines, maintaining the
machine has become a challenging task. The planned preventive maintenance and condition based maintenance
that was extensively practiced in the mining industry are now not adequate to ensure well being and reliability
of machines.The Industry now needs looking beyond conventional maintenance system: towards a smart mainte-
nance system.

With the same motivation, all are leading towards the somewhere quiescent concept of and has reached at a point
where we have to use information technology and artificial intelligence for the maintenance of mining machinery.
Today number of devices and technologies are being used in order to make maintenance effective and to compete
with the growing market In this technical note we are bring out few of recent developments in e-maintenance.

The early primary use of RFID technology has been for iden-
tification purposes. Avoiding the necessity for line-of-sight, it
is a more sensible option, compared to bar codes. In addition,
RFID tags can store limited information locally. This feature is
very useful for maintenance manage. It is the accepted link be-
tween the physical and the IT world, and considered as a key
technology that facilitates the computerization of the asset.
Asset management and the integration of asset with Enter-
prise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. A more recent trend
is the integration of RFID tags with sensing technology (Roy
et al. 2010). This is particularly important to e-Maintenance,
as in the future, it will enable the merging of identification
RFID TAG SENSOR TO CAPTURE AND TRANSMIT IM- and sensing into simpler to install, to operate and to manage
PORTANT MAINTENANCE DECISION DATA solutions. The measurements taken are then instantly contex-

tualized, which means that they are linked to a precise asset
that operates under certain conditions. Coupled with the use
RFID (Radio Frequency of handheld devices, this level of integration makes the shop
floor machinery data universally available to the net worked
Identification) technology enterprise users. Although the state of-the-art is now reaching
this level of technological advances, the technology needs to
mature further and prove to be reliable and cost efficient in
decades, yet it was not having any real world applications until practice for even wider e-Maintenance adoption.
recently. Today RFID technology is considered as one of the
most useful and advanced way of connecting physical assets The RFID technology is being applied in monitoring highly dis-
with the information technology infrastructure. Therefore, it tributed belt conveyor components simultaneously and auto-
has used in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) matically (Figure 1). RFID technology can provide the solution
solutions for engineering asset management and is thus con- for wireless communication network for wide area monitoring
sidered a key element in e-Maintenance. for maintenance of conveyor belt systems in mines.In a

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