Condition Monitoring

Condition Monitoring

Condition monitoring provides valuable, proactive information about mining equipment, helping your people set up effective, comprehensive maintenance and repair plans for mine assets. Analyzing data from a combination of condition monitoring "elements" - including simple inspections and regular fluid analysis to careful tracking of electronic data and analysis of equipment history - helps to accurately assess the health and operating condition of critical equipment.

Condition Monitoring

Repair Before Failure

Regular condition monitoring practices enhance your ability to identify small problems before they develop further, and before they cause a failure that shuts vital equipment down. Reducing unscheduled repairs improves equipment availability, increases production, and reduces owning and operating costs.

In some cases, condition monitoring may also be used to provide condition-based preventive maintenance, which helps to reduce total lifetime fluid and filter usage, further reducing costs and environmental impacts.

Condition monitoring can provide information that helps operations maximize uptime and avoid unexpected failures. Plus, it can give maintenance more flexibility to schedule service procedures so they cause minimal disruption to production timetables.

It's easy to get started.

Getting started with condition monitoring is simple. Begin with routine inspections, then add regular S•O•S Fluid Analysis. These two condition monitoring elements will provide information and actionable insights on how best to enhance your service and maintenance practices. You can add other elements as needed - for example, you might build on your equipment's service history, or begin regular collection and analysis of site condition information and electronic data.

Caterpillar and your Cat® Dealer can provide consulting services and advice to help you take advantage of the condition monitoring elements that make the most sense for your equipment and your business.