BELTBOT
Automated Conveyor Skirt Liner Inspections
Meet BeltBot: Delivering precise, automated skirt-liner gap measurements with 3D laser scanning and AI.
The world’s first autonomous system for conveyor skirt-liner inspections. Faster, safer, and more accurate than manual methods—keeping your belts and your people protected.
Keeping Skirt-Liner Gaps in Check
For mining operations, keeping skirt-liner air gaps within the 3–5 mm sweet spot is critical to avoiding costly failures. If the gap is too low, conveyor belts wear or tear prematurely—leading to millions in replacements and unplanned downtime. If it’s too high, material escapes onto surrounding equipment, while trapped rocks and fines churn against components, accelerating wear.
By maintaining the right gap, mining companies protect their belts, reduce spillage, and keep production running smoothly.
The Problem
Manual skirt-liner inspections rely on taper gauges and human judgment—slow, inconsistent, and often unsafe. Workers must take delicate millimetre readings in dark, hot, and confined spaces, where mistakes are common.
Because the process is tedious and risky, inspections are frequently rushed or skipped, leaving critical data missing. The result is unreliable maintenance decisions and a higher risk of belt failure or costly downtime.
The Solution: BeltBot
BeltBot solves the problem by crawling along your conveyor during shutdowns, using 3D laser scanning and AI to measure gaps with sub-millimetre accuracy.
The result? faster, safer, and more reliable data than manual checks—without sending workers into dark, hot, or confined spaces.
WHY BELTBOT?
AI-Powered Precision
Advanced vision algorithms convert millions of 3D laser points into critical skirt-liner metrics, including air gap profiles, liner height, and wear distribution.
Automated Work Orders
Post-inspection, BeltBot generates detailed maintenance instructions—identifying liners to adjust, invert, or replace—eliminating manual data handling errors.
Field & Remote Operation
Supports live, in-situ measurement for real-time feedback or deferred data processing, without requiring personnel access to hazardous conveyor areas.
Engineered for Extremes
Fire- and submersion-resistant, dust-tolerant, and high-torque. BeltBot carries up to 80 kg, runs over 1 km per charge, and remains portable at only 16 kg.
Features
Laser Scanner
Combined with AI, it automatically measures the gap, finds the centre-bolts, and measures the dimensions of the liner and assesses maintenance task required.
Remote Control Robot
Can be controlled by a human or set onto automatic robot mode.
Cameras
Allows you to monitor the condition of your skirt liners in real time from a comfortable distance.
EXPORT Data
Data recording and screen plug-in so you can analyse the data in your office space.
AI Algorithms
AI detects the lower edge and algorithms detect the liner’s 3D angle.
Adjustment Checklist
BeltBot will generate a checklist showing what needs to be done with each skirt liner. i.e. Adjust or replace.
Benefits of BeltBot
Accurate Data
The automated skirt liner gap data improves the operation and reliability of your conveyor systems.
Reduce Conveyor Downtime
The ultimate goal is to reduce or remove premature belt failure due to skirt liners cutting into your conveyor belt. This reduces unforeseen cost in belt replacement, and far greater savings by avoiding lost production time.
Quality
For quality control and to ensure your air gaps have been correctly adjusted, use BeltBot before and after the adjustment of your conveyor skirt liners.
Safety
By automating otherwise manual measurements, you can remove people from uncomfortable and potentially unsafe environments.
Digital Record Keeping
Have a record of skirt liner conditions accessible at all times to see wear rates over time and improve reliability engineering processes.
Speed
No need for managers or reviewers to convert manual measurments into digital measurements then into work orders. BeltBot automates this process and generates work orders you can action on the fly.