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Where does the advantage lie in Digitizing Undercarriage Inspections

The time taken to complete a full Undercarriage inspection manually on a dozer is on average about 20 to 25 minutes covering both sides. A field Rope Shovel inspection on the other hand can take between 2 and 4 hours depending on the number of inspection or observation points and how much cleaning needs to be done. The length of the inspection will normally determine the volume of data that is captured, especially images. Rope Read more…

By John, ago

The most important Undercarriage Inspection is often missed

The most important Undercarriage Inspection is the End-of-Life inspection where the undercarriage components have reached the end of their useful life. This vitally important inspection is typically missed by most inspectors. So why is this inspection and the data so valuable. Undercarriage residual life is normally determined through inspection where the measurement of the remaining material indicates the percent worn and facilitates the calculation of the residual hours available in the remaining material based on Read more…

By John, ago

Field Inspection Images replace a thousand words

Images snapped in the field during an inspection to illustrate an issue identified creates a richer view of the problem and will often replace a thousand-word description of the problem. This saves enormous amounts of time which is money! Images speed up the inspection process because they save having to describe the issue in words – Most importantly and image or 2 provides a better description than the image that can be described in a Read more…

By John, ago

A comprehensive Field Inspection Dataset has tremendous value to your business

Data that is collected over multiple inspections creates a dataset that can be extremely valuable to your business. So how can this be the case? Well there are a few reasons the dataset collected is specifically to your fleet of machines operated in your environment by your operators. This fact alone makes the dataset unique. This dataset provides a benchmark for the operating conditions of the equipment and what performance can reasonably be achieved from Read more…

By John, ago

Release Notes 7.1

Digital Forms Until now the TrackTreads system for both Undercarriage and Wear surface monitoring of GET and structural components has been focused directly on measurements and evaluations of components and defined observation points. With new Digital Forms, you can now create custom forms that can include the existing observation points as well as a range of other related questions of various types (multiple choice, multiple selection, True/False, free text answers) that can be used to Read more…

By Chloe, ago

Digitizing Field Inspections can produce big savings

Reliability Engineers carry the burden of scheduling maintenance tasks to ensure maximum production availability of machinery with minimum downtime for maintenance. The quality of their decisions depending on the quality of the data available. Digitizing Field Inspections can provide more data, quicker and more accurately. It does not stop there Digitizing Pre-starts, PM Services, Pre-Rentals and many other forms can save money in a number of ways: – Using a tablet to gather the information Read more…

By John, ago

The cost of Undercarriage Inspections and $ value gained

Undercarriage Inspections are not as common as Oil Sampling yet, but they are just as important. Every activity has a cost and a potential value added. Take and Oil Sample on an engine. Take all the oil samples over the life of the engine and full life can be achieved instead of a catastrophic failure with associated costs for this event. Over the life of the undercarriage of 6,000 hours, the cost of inspecting would Read more…

By John, ago

The cost of Walking Too Far

Large Hydraulic Shovels and Rope Shovels are not built to walk long distances. Short distances is all they can do. The general rule of thumb is no more than 7% of the overall machine hours should be spent walking the machine. Take an example, our shovel aims to achieve 22,000 working machine hours as the useful life of the Undercarriage. This means that the machine should be limited to walking no more than 1,540 hours Read more…

By John, ago

Managing Undercarriage is more costly than Tires

Tires are high-pressure vessels on which the wear is measured typically by measuring the depth of available tread with at least 3 points being taken across the face of the tire to provide a reasonable average. The overall condition of the tire will be inspected to identify any visible faults that could lead to failure. Thus, inspection of tires is relative quick and can be carried out by a technician without huge investment in training Read more…

By John, ago

Great Products should be flaunted with Testimonial Data

In this day and competitive environment, if you have a great product, flaunt it with a convincing argument! Demonstrate your argument with a testimonial of performance. This can be done in the following steps Investment in placing product in the field Monitoring performance of the product in the field through inspection with data capture at scheduled intervals to create a data set. Continue the collection of data over multiple examples and differing environments with the Read more…

By John, ago