Abstract: In order to improve accuracy of fault diagnosis of mine hoist, a new fault diagnosis method of mine hoist based on optimizing fuzzy Petri networks was proposed. Firstly, momentum BP network was used to optimize weights, thresholds and reliability parameters of the fuzzy Petri networks, and then the optimal fuzzy Petri networks model was used for fault diagnosis of mine hoist. The test results show that the method has fast convergence rate of parameter and high accuracy of fault diagnosis of mine hoist, which has a certain practical value.