Ishikawa Diagram Indicating Potential Causes for Damage Occurring to the Rubber Conveyor Belt Operating at Coal Mining Site

The conveyor belt offers high performance for continuous material transport from one point to another as an economical transportation device. The rubber belt is the core element in the conveyor belt system and for the optimized use and maximized service life, it has to be observed and maintained as it passes through destructive forces constantly while carrying the material on it. The study of the damage done to the rubber belt and its responsible forces can contribute to controlling and implementing the favorable conditions where the service life of the rubber belt is maximized, which is the overall aim of the chosen research goal. The research goal of presented article is to use the Ishikawa diagram to enlist and categorize the potential causes of damage done to the CB. The recorded and magnetic scanned (DiagBelt + system) data of the past events at the mining site can help in such a study where influenced and influential parameters can be identified using statistical analysis and then followed by machine learning algorithms to identify hidden inter-dependencies within a multivariate system where two distinct sets of variables which are affecting each other during the production process. The presented article is an approach which outlines the possible quantifiable and non-quantifiable parameters which are influencing the wear occurring in the rubber belt operating at the coal mining site. Subsequently, the mentioned quantifiable parameters can be used in the dataset and the controllable non-quantifiable parameters can be countered by removing bottlenecks and overlooked operating conditions at mining sites.