How Power Generators Protect Availability by Monitoring What Actually Changes
When operators understand how assets behave during operation, they can reduce disruption, improve outage planning, and keep assets online with confidence.
Mining
Why Corrosion Risk Looks Different by Industry, but Fails the Same Way Every Time
Corrosion risk looks different by industry, but the way assets fail is the same. The real challenge isn’t inspections, it’s what happens between them.
CASE STUDY | Wear Monitoring of Iron Ore Crusher Hoppers
Ionix HotSense was used to provide frequent, high-quality wall thickness trends, ensuring the customer knows the hopper’s condition and remaining life. Wall loss trends help predict and schedule maintenance, reducing outages and maximizing production. Changes in wall loss rates can adjust maintenance frequency as needed. The system is installed outside the hopper, increasing safety by reducing personnel exposure to hazards like working from heights and rope access.
APPLICATION INSIGHT | Optimising the Management and Maintenance of Mining Equipment
HotSense™ is a non-invasive ultrasonic wear monitoring solution born out of the extreme environments of the energy sector:
For users of critical components or linings susceptible to wear;
Who want to always know the remaining life of their assets;
So that they can shorten outages to maximise availability and reduce outage costs.
Unlike manual inspection and invasive technologies, HotSense™ provides direct wall thickness trending loss and detection of changes to predict maintenance intervals whilst plant is running.
CASE STUDY | Erosion Monitoring of Buried Tailings Lines
A solution was sought to monitor erosion caused by ore tailings from a mining operation in South America. The subsequent wall-loss has the potential to cause failures and loss of containment, resulting in lost productivity, and damage to nearby population and environment.