Vision-based tracking of the mill's steel-ball charge — protects grind and throughput without periodic crash-stops.
The Ball Manager watches grinding balls as they roll past the mill discharge. A two-class instance-segmentation neural network classifies every detection as a whole ball or a fractured fragment, and a tracker matches detections across frames so each unique ball is counted exactly once as it crosses the inspection zone. Ball wear used to be a manual count performed when something already felt wrong. Now media degradation surfaces as a trend — before it costs throughput.
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