Conveyor belt condition monitoring system

A conveyor belt condition monitoring system, comprising:

• a plurality of sensors arranged adjacent a surface of a conveyor belt for sensing a disruption in a magnetic field induced by a permanent magnet in a magnetized metallic conveyor belt element;
• a programmable logic controller (PLC) for receiving a signal from at least one of said plurality of sensors and analyzing said signal to assess a condition of said metallic conveyor belt element;
• a user interface operably connected to said PLC such that a user may interact with and control the system;
• a display for providing a visual representation to a user of said condition of said metallic conveyor belt element;
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• an interrogation unit positioned in close proximity to the belt for turning on a radio frequency identification (RFID) chip electrically connected to a conductive loop in or on said belt, said chip energizing the loop.

A conveyor belt condition monitoring system, comprising:

• a permanent magnet for magnetizing a metallic conveyor belt element;
• a plurality of sensors for sensing a disruption in a magnetic field induced by the permanent magnet in the metallic conveyor belt element;
• a programmable logic controller (PLC) for receiving a signal from at least one of said plurality of sensors and analyzing said signal to assess a condition of said metallic conveyor belt element;
• a display for providing a visual representation to a user of said condition of said metallic conveyor belt element, said visual representation comprises one or more information configurations of the group consisting of a learn mode configuration, a historical monitoring configuration, a non-historical monitoring configuration, a full-screen configuration, and a refined full-screen configuration.