Conveyor Condition Monitoring
Detect Conveyor Failures before They Stop Production.
Airborne ultrasound inspection empowers you with early, actionable insights into the health of your conveyors—long before traditional methods can detect problems.
Stay ahead of conveyor system breakdowns. Speak to a reliability expert today.
Why Early Detection is Important
Ultrasound delivers real-time, condition-based data on your conveyor components, even those hidden behind guards or inaccessible points.
With airborne ultrasound, you can:
- Identify failing idlers, pulleys, bearings, and belts early
- Detect friction, impacts, and alignment issues before damage occurs
- Safely inspect conveyors without downtime or removing guarding
- Reduce costly, reactive maintenance practices
- Extend equipment and conveyor life with precise interventions
Trust ultrasound to uncover hidden risks—before they escalate into catastrophic failures.
What do Failed Conveyors Mean to your Operation?
Conveyor systems are crucial to your operations but notoriously hard to inspect thoroughly with conventional methods. Traditional monitoring techniques often reveal issues too late, resulting in:
Production Stoppages
Unexpected conveyor breakdowns halt production lines, causing missed deadlines and significant revenue loss. Downtime can ripple through your entire operation, affecting your ability to fulfill orders.
Urgent Costly Repairs
When conveyors fail unexpectedly, immediate and emergency repairs often come at premium costs, requiring costly overtime, rushed shipping of spare parts, and increased resource allocation.
Safety Hazards & Injury Risk
Conveyor breakdowns pose serious risks to personnel, potentially leading to injuries from attempts to manually restart or repair systems under pressure. Emergency situations heighten risk.
Shortened Asset Lifespan
Frequent failures and improper emergency repairs accelerate wear and tear, drastically reducing the operational life of your conveyors and increasing long-term maintenance costs.
Listen to Your Conveyors
We’ve spent decades making the way you can monitor your conveyors simpler, safer, and smarter. Whether you’re starting small or scaling enterprise-wide, our team is here to:
- Guide you to the ideal handheld ultrasound data collectors and acoustic imaging cameras
- Offer specialized monitoring systems for your motors and critical conveyor assets
- Train your teams in efficient inspection routes and best practices
- Integrate ultrasound seamlessly into your existing maintenance programs
- Interpret condition data clearly and confidently act on it
With us, you’re investing in a proactive strategy—not just instruments.
Ultrasound Tools for Conveyor Condition Monitoring
Our route-based data collection solutions combine airborne and contact ultrasound sensors with precision vibration analysis into versatile, multi-purpose reliability data collectors. Fully integrated with the world's most powerful predictive maintenance software, these intuitive tools streamline asset inspections, simplify workflows, and deliver superior reliability outcomes.
Learn MoreOur ultrasound and vibration permanent monitoring solutions offer industry-leading sensitivity for the earliest possible fault detection. Engineered for durability and ease-of-use, these solutions provide remote, automated diagnostics—reducing maintenance costs and delivering a comprehensive, facility-wide view of asset health.
Learn MoreImaging technologies enhance visibility into hidden problems—revealing heat, sound, and motion that the eye can’t see. From thermal and acoustic imaging to motion amplification, reliability teams can use these vision enhancing technologies to detect failures. Our imaging solutions are a powerful way to see more, understand faster, and act with confidence.
Learn MoreUltrasound-guided lubrication empowers maintenance teams to grease bearings with precision by monitoring friction in real time during greasing tasks. By comparing live decibel readings to historical baseline data, technicians can identify when lubrication is truly needed, and when enough has been applied; preventing both under- and over-lubrication.
Learn More4-Step Procedure for Effective Conveyor Monitoring
01
Plan Your Inspection Route
Identify key inspection points, map the optimal route, and determine inspection frequency based on conveyor criticality and accessibility.
02
Monitor System
Inspect conveyor components, motors, belts, idlers, pulleys, and gearboxes systematically, using handheld data collectors, acoustic imaging cameras, and monitoring systems.
03
Listen and Analyze
Use ultrasound technology to capture and analyze data in real-time, pinpointing friction, impacts, and potential failures within your system.
04
Take Corrective Action
Perform necessary corrective actions based on your analysis, then conduct follow-up inspections to confirm repairs and monitor ongoing asset health.
Get Your Conveyor Monitoring Started—Fast
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Conveyor Monitoring Frequently Asked Questions
Ultrasound inspection is effective across all conveyor types, including belt, roller, chain, overhead, screw, and bucket conveyors.
Ultrasound instruments detect high-frequency sound emissions from conveyor components, identifying friction, impacts, and misalignment without contact—even through small gaps or mesh guards.
Yes. By detecting component issues early, ultrasound allows for proactive maintenance, significantly reducing unplanned outages and expensive downtime.
Ultrasound effectively monitors bearings, motors, pulleys, idlers, belts, and gearboxes, as well as electrical components like VFDs and motor control panels.
SDT offers comprehensive training, making ultrasound inspection easy to learn and integrate into your existing maintenance routines, empowering operators and maintenance professionals alike.
Absolutely. Airborne ultrasound inspection is non-contact, allowing safe inspections even while equipment is operational and guarded.