Proactive maintenance saves mines reactive costs

US condition-based monitoring device supplier SpotSee is in the process of obtaining certification in Africa for its Wi-Fi radio, which enables its OpsWatch vibration monitoring system to stream condition-based data to central operations through a Web-hosted platform. The system can detect changes in vibration at an extremely low frequency (one hertz). As a result, SpotSee says, it is better able to identify potential problems with slow rotating equipment, compared with most products on the market.