Conveyor Belts

Monitoring conveyor belts with ICI's SmartIR platform improves maintenance practices, enhances safety measures, prevents belt failures, optimizes efficiency, and increases reliability. Conveyor Belts are essential for smooth operations and play a critical role in the timely movement of materials. Conveyor belts can fail for a variety of reasons (overloading, normal wear and tear, misalignment, improper maintenance, etc.) and have a great impact on operations when they do. By addressing potential issues proactively and monitoring system performance, the lifespan of your conveyor belts can be greatly prolonged. ICI's SmartIR platform is designed for reducing disruptions, minimizing downtime, optimizing energy consumption, and enhancing the overall efficiency and reliability of conveyor belt systems.

SmartIR for Conveyor Belts

Manufacturing

Manufacturers use conveyor belts extensively for various applications such as assembly lines, material handling, and product transportation. SmartIR allows manufacturers to analyze temperature patterns, detect hot spots, trigger alerts, access real-time remote monitoring, and facilitate predictive maintenance to ensure the proper functioning, reliability, and safety of their conveyor belt systems.

Distribution & Logistics

Pulp and Paper Mills

SmartIR Applied

Intelligent Condition Monitoring

SmartIR provides a complete thermal data set to work with, meaning you can identify more issues and areas for improvement compared to traditional inspection methods.

Customizable dashboards allow users to identify specific materials that could be causing excessive friction or stress on the belt system, allowing for quick intervention

Scalable, predictive analytics enable users to identify failure patterns and adjust maintenance and operational processes accordingly

Set KPIs and benchmarks to understand how your belt system performs under different conditions to optimize performance, reduce energy usage, and improve operational efficiency

Automated alerts notify personnel of when temperature spikes or drops that may signal a malfunctioning component, a material blockage, or other issues that need immediate attention

Infrared Technology Applied

Why Infrared Technology is so Effective

Thermal images provide temperature data useful in many different aspects. They allow you to see immediate issues such as hotspots, but they also allow you to see gradual changes in temperature overtime that could indicate a developing problem.

Hotspots, which are areas with a higher temperature compared to their surroundings, often indicate potential issues such as friction, misalignment, overloading, or equipment malfunctions. Hotspots are easily identified with thermal cameras, helping prevent equipment failures and minimizing unplanned downtime.

With a complete thermal data set, you can identify more issues and areas for improvement. For example, if you know the normal temperature range for your conveyor belts, you can identify unusual temperature spikes or drops that may signify a malfunctioning component, a material blockage, or other issues that need immediate attention. You can find patterns that repeat themselves, giving you insights on specific materials that could be causing excessive friction or stress on the belt system. By analyzing trends, patterns, and anomalies, you can predict when problems might occur allowing you to schedule maintenance before failure occurs.

Data sets also allow you to understand how your belt system performs under different conditions by identifying factors that affect temperature such as speed, material type, or environmental factors to optimize performance, reduce energy usage, and improve overall efficiency.

Simply put, infrared technology allows you to efficiently schedule maintenance, detect issues early, optimize performance, and ensure reliably.

Infrared Technology Applied

Why Infrared Technology is so Effective

Simply put, infrared technology allows you to efficiently schedule maintenance, detect issues early, optimize performance, and ensure reliably.

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