Importance measure based ranking and maintenance scheduling for heavy duty belt conveyors a case study from underground coal mine

Abstract

In Maintenance design for any system can be divided into two components; (i) maintenance policy component (ii) maintenance scheduling component. The current research paper focuses on the maintenance scheduling for production equipment keeping cost control as the primary goal. The paper highlights the resource prioritization and the usefulness of an importance measure based ranking of subsystems/components for scientific allocation of limited resources. Based on the detailed understanding of maximizing benefits from available resources, a cost-effective importance measure has been evolved and proposed for scheduling various maintenance tasks involved in heavy duty belt conveyors operating in an underground coal mine. © 2011 COMADEM International.