Cord Guard ®

Magnetic Based Monitoring System

for Steel Cord Conveyor Belts
Presented By
Jack Wallace
Contains Confidential and/or Proprietary Information. May Not Be Copied or Disseminated Without Express
Consent of Veyance Technologies Inc.
 Cord Guard Technology
PATENT
PENDING

Sensor Array
Magnet Array
 Magnetic Flux Leakage at Damage
Typically magnetic-based conveyor monitoring systems depend on the
magnetization of the reinforcing steel cords by passing the steel
cords over a magnet mounted on the system

Discontinuity in Cord
Results in Magnetic Anomalies Polarity Curve Intensity Imaging

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 Positional Damage Imaging
Sensor
Array

Belt
Motion

Cord
Damage
Events Belt Splice
Cord Guard Interface
Belt Overview:
Cord Damage &
Splice location

Magnified
Belt Damage
View
 Magnetic Belt Map

Green Lines
Yellow Lines Blue Lines
Represents Current
Represents Damage Represents Splice
Position
Interactive Damage Evaluation
By moving mouse over damage
area, damage detail given
 User Defined Alarms
Select alarm criteria and method of alarming from an
easy to understand alarm table
 Alarm Acknowlege
A simple mouse click on “Unacknowledged Alarms”,
allows for the review and acknowledgement of alarms

User-Friendly Alarm
Acknowledgement
Process
On Demand Reporting
Summary Image of Belt Scan

Image of Belt Splices

 Summary of Damage Monitoring
 Real-Time analysis of the scan data against a stored map of the
conveyor belt allows for the system to detect new cord damage.

 Alarms based on “User-Defined” and “Critical Event” thresholds allows

the end user to be alerted of critical damage events

 Damage Thresholds are based on the number of cord breaks in a

given region of the belt

 Once a threshold is exceeded, the system trips one of two relays

depending on the level of the damage.

 E-mail Alerts settings are available for e-mail alerts to be sent upon
alarm generation (via Ethernet connection)
 Magnetic Splice Imaging
2- Stage Splice North (N)
Polarity
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N S
S N
N S
S N
S
N
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S
N
S N
S
N
S N S
N
S N
N S
S N
N S
S N
N S
S N
N S
S N
S
N
S N
N S
S N
S

South (S)
Polarity
 Cord Guard Splice Imaging
Single Stage Splice Two Stage Splice Three Stage Splice
Splice Monitoring (coming soon)
Splice Monitoring will include:

 Images available over time

 Statistical Analysis on critical

splice characteristics

 Alarm Functions
Cord Guard XD (Rip Monitoring)

Veyance Rip Insert Bias Rip Insert

Location
 Biased Tire cord Mapped

 Durable Flexible Design

 Short Wire Length
 Enables 4 side imaging
 Low Gauge Profile
 Rip Event

Rip Damaged
Insert Rip Insert

Alarm
Status
Monitoring After Event Final Repair

Acknowledging a rip event automatically deactivates damaged insert

 Rip Insert Table
Alarmed Rip Insert (with Repair Clips)

Disable Rip Insert (After Seam Repair)

* Unique rfid ID associate with each rip insert

After Rip Event
Magnified view of belt in
damaged region
Repair Clips are Imaged

Actual belt photo with

repair clips in place
 Cord Guard XD Belt Monitoring
There are two basic forms of catastrophic conveyor belt failure:
 Transverse Tear
 Longitudinal Rip

Cord Guard XD Magnetic Damage

Detection

 Flat sensor array maps location

and severity of cord damage (user
defined alarms) Magnetic Rip Insert
After Rip Damage

 Cord Guard XD detects rip events

that damage magnetic rip insert
installed across belt width