OPENTECHNICAL PUBLICATION
OT-2026-000000321

Monitoring wear assembles, systems, and methods for mining equipment

Published: 2026-09-15T19:02:44.676827Z
Permanent URL: https://opentechnical.org/p/OT-2026-000000321
Categories: Sensors, Controls & Machine Vision > Position and Presence Sensing

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ABSTRACT

A monitoring system for monitoring wear and usage along a portion of a wear
surface for earth moving equipment includes a monitoring assembly to detect a
characteristic pertaining to wear or usage in a wear part for excavating
equipment and transmit the detected characteristic as information, wherein the
monitoring assembly includes a bolt having a standard head, a coupling nut
that captures the bolt on one end, a spacer secured to the top of the head,
and a sensor probe having an elongate structure that passes through both the
bolt and the coupling nut and is captured by the coupling nut on an opposite
end. The monitoring assembly being wirelessly able to communicate to a remote
device to monitor wear.

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OpenTechnical publication OT-2026-000000321
Published 2026-09-15T19:02:44.676827Z
https://opentechnical.org/p/OT-2026-000000321