Cost-effective fault diagnostics of material handling system in critical mining site

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Remote monitoring of critical mining infrastructure requires highly reliable operating performance to ensure effective use of its resources in exploration, extraction and handling of minerals. The current industrial partner, North American Palladium (NAP) Limited, at their Lac des lles mining site located in Thunder Bay, is one of only two leading palladium producers in the world that is strongly reliant on automated material handling system (AMHS) for efficient processing of minerals. Such an automated system is made of assemblages of rotating machineries such as gearboxes, bearings, motors, hoisting structure and conveyer belt drives.