Equipment performance monitoring

This paper describes Gregg River’s (as a cost shared project with the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources-EMR, Canada Centre for Mineral and Energy Technology-CANMET and Coal Research Laboratories) evaluation of OBDAS; a real time equipment performance monitoring system developed by Philippi-Hagenbuch Inc. For the evaluation OBDAS was installed on two-154 tonne haul trucks and operated for a six month trial period starting in January, 1987. During this time a series of studies were carried out to test the reliability, accurracy, and repeatability of the system. The presentation will describe the system and its installation, the findings and conclusions of the studies performed during its evaluation and its potential role as a building block in developing an equipment management system.