A single conveyor belt failure at a cement plant can stop everything downstream of it, from raw material feed to clinker transport to finished product loadout. Most conveyor failures don't happen without warning, a misaligned belt drifts for weeks before it tears, an idler bearing runs hot long before it seizes, but without anything watching those signs, the first indication is often the belt itself stopping. This case study looks at how a cement plant added condition monitoring and predictive maintenance to its conveyor network inside its CMMS, and what happened to downtime, mean time between failures, and inspection workload. Sign up to see the same conveyor monitoring workflow built for your own plant.
Conveyor inspections were visual and manual, walked once a shift if schedules allowed, and easy to skip when the team was stretched thin. Belt misalignment, idler bearing wear, and splice degradation were only caught once they were visible or audible, by which point a failure was often close behind. Every unplanned conveyor stoppage cascaded into whatever process depended on it, and root cause was rarely clear until the belt was already down.
Results After Adding Conveyor Condition Monitoring
Failure Modes Caught Before They Stop The Line
Mean Time Between Failures: Manual Checks vs Condition Monitoring
Oxmaint turns conveyor sensor readings into automatic work orders, so misalignment, bearing wear, and splice issues get fixed before they become a stoppage. Sign up for a free trial to build your own conveyor monitoring workflow, or book a demo to walk through this case study in detail.
Conveyor Maintenance Before And After
Conveyor stoppages stopped being a surprise. Misalignment, bearing wear, and splice issues showed up as work orders days or weeks before they would have shown up as a jammed line, and when a section did need attention, the sensor history made root cause obvious instead of a guessing game. The maintenance team spent less time walking the same belts every shift and more time acting on the sections that actually needed it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Stop Finding Out About Conveyor Failures From The Line Itself
Oxmaint watches belt alignment, bearing temperature, and drive strain continuously, turning early warning signs into work orders before they become stoppages. Sign up for a free trial to build your own conveyor monitoring workflow, or book a demo to walk through the full case study.
