Conveyor belt management system
A conveyor belt management system is capable of determining a suitable replacement period of the conveyor belt. Data of an amount of wear of an upper cover rubber of the conveyor belt installed at a use site is input into a server via an input unit. A calculation unit is configured to calculate a remaining service life of the conveyor belt based on the input data and, stored in a storage unit, a belt specification database and a tolerance range database in which a tolerance range is input in advance for the amount of wear per belt specification; and calculate an expected service life of the conveyor belt before use of the conveyor belt based on a correlation between a use condition and belt specifications of the conveyor belt used up until present, the use condition of the conveyor belt, and the specifications of the conveyor belt.
1. A conveyor belt management system, comprising:
an input unit with an amount of wear of at least an upper cover rubber of a conveyor belt installed at a use site as an input item; and
a server into which data of the input item is input;
the server comprising a calculation unit and a storage unit,
the storage unit storing a belt specification database in which specifications of the conveyor belt are input in advance and a tolerance range database in which a tolerance range for the input item input into the server per each of the specifications of the conveyor belt is input in advance, and
the calculation unit calculating a remaining service life of the conveyor belt based on the data of the input item input into the server, the specifications of the conveyor belt input into the belt specification database, and the tolerance range input into the tolerance range database; and
the calculation unit calculating, before the conveyor belt is installed on the belt conveyor device, an expected service life of the conveyor belt based on a use condition of the belt conveyor device at the use site, specifications of the conveyor belt input into the belt specification database, and a correlation determined in advance between the use condition and the specifications of the conveyor belt and an actual service life of the conveyor belt,
wherein the expected service life and the remaining service life as calculated by the calculation unit are sent from the server to a communicably connected customer terminal device.
2. The conveyor belt management system according to claim 1 , wherein
an inventory database into which an inventory amount of replacement conveyor belts for the conveyor belt at the use site or at a stockyard near the use site of the conveyor belt is input is stored in the storage unit; and
communication notifying of an order period of the replacement conveyor belt or communication prompting order thereof is sent from the server to the customer terminal device based on the inventory amount input in the inventory database and the remaining service life calculated.
3. The conveyor belt management system according to claim 1 , wherein
the input unit comprises an input unit with at least one input item from six input items consisting of an impact force acting on the conveyor belt, a tensile force, an indicator indicating a state of a core, an indicator indicating a state of an endless portion, an indicator indicating a state of a belt conveyor device on which the conveyor belt is installed, and an indicator indicating a use environment of the conveyor belt as an input item.
4. The conveyor belt management system according to claim 2 , wherein
the input unit comprises an input unit with at least one input item from six input items consisting of an impact force acting on the conveyor belt, a tensile force, an indicator indicating a state of a core, an indicator indicating a state of an endless portion, an indicator indicating a state of a belt conveyor device on which the conveyor belt is installed, and an indicator indicating a use environment of the conveyor belt as an input item.