Experiences of a Digital Twin Based Predictive Maintenance Solution for Belt Conveyor Systems

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Published Jun 29, 2022
Kammal Al-Kahwati Wolfgang Birk Evert Flygel Nilsfors Rune Nilsen

Abstract

Availability of belt conveyor systems is essential in production and logistic lines to safeguard production and delivery targets to customers. In this paper, experiences from commissioning, validation, and operation of an interactive predictive maintenance solution are reported. The solution and its development is formerly presented in Al-Kahwati et.al. (Al-Kahwati, Saari, Birk, & Atta, 2021), where the principles to derive a digital twin of a typical belt conveyor system comprising component-level degradation models,estimation schemes for the remaining useful life and the degradation rate, and vision-based hazardous object detection.

Furthermore, the validation approach of modifying the belt conveyor and thus exploiting the idler misalignment load (IML) for the degradation predictions for individual components (including long-lasting ones) together with the actionable insights for the decision support is presented and assessed. Moreover, the approach to testing and validation of the object detection and its performance is assessed and presented in the same manner. An overall system assessment is then given and concludes the paper together with lessons learned.

As pilot site for the study a belt conveyor system at LKAB Narvik in northern Norway is used.

How to Cite

Al-Kahwati, K. ., Birk, W. ., Nilsfors, E. F. ., & Nilsen, R. (2022). Experiences of a Digital Twin Based Predictive Maintenance Solution for Belt Conveyor Systems. PHM Society European Conference, 7(1), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.36001/phme.2022.v7i1.3355
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Keywords

Predictive Maintenance, Digital Twin, Belt Conveyor Systems, Degradation models

Section
Technical Papers