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Conveyor Technologies Pty Ltd (CTPL) is a private Australian Company with 100% share holding and is listed by the Australian Securities Investment Commission (ASIC) with an Australian Company Number ACN 145 830 646. The company provides an engineering service to the mining industry through application of remotely accessible steel cord belt monitoring technology. The technology used by CTPL was originally developed in USA in 1993 and remote monitoring began in USA and Canada in 1998.

The first steel cord belt scanner was developed by Alex Harrison at CSIRO Applied Physics in 1979. The scanner was simply called a Conveyor Belt Monitor (CBM). Research in 1993 by Conveyor Technologies Ltd. LLC (CTL) based in Denver, USA, completely changed the sensor design to the point it is portable, light weight, and easily connected to a remote modem data logger. An entire new philosophy of belt scanning evolved once remote monitoring was developed and proven reliable. At present, the company has some of the original scanners from 1998 and 2001 still operating in mines without any replacements over the years.

CTL moved its headquarters to Lisarow, within the Sydney Region of New South Wales Australia., in January 2011. NDT data from mine conveyors is collected from anywhere in the world using various telecom infrastructure connections to CTPL's remotely installed data loggers and belt sensors.

Belts are scanned on a monthly or quarterly basis, and with 30 installed scanner/logger systems around the world, typically 100 remote scan tests are conducted annually. A mine can obtain a price schedule on application to :

manager@conveyortech.com.au

CTPL can operate effectively from anywhere, using its hardware, software, and communications schedulers.

CTPL's Hardware business is based on :

design of sensors for reliable belt testsing.
design of data loggers connected to a phone modem.
development of software to perform the scans.
development of IT protocols and troublshooting guidelines for the mines
supply of this equipment as part of a scan contract.
scanning a belt at an appropriate interval based on damage rates.
generating analysis of data and providing a proffessional engineering report.
application of internet, mobile phone and line alternatives to collecting data.

Software is developed in-house. Currently the scanning program requires use of 3 software applications :

Data logger CTPLogVS8.exe software (samples scan signals and writes 12-bit values to a csv-type file).
Corrupted data clean-up software called Fix-A-File.exe. A signal conditioning application for correcting dropouts, drift, noise and data errors.
Analysis of data (splice and event extraction, report figures) using NDT15.exe Application.

Business Activity is worldwide as shown by the scan scheduler below. To estimate the cost of a scan, with equipment supplied and for at minimum 4 scans per year with a PO. Scan costs are usually less than $5,000 / test.