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Beyond Budget Life: Enhancing Decision Quality Through Condition Monitoring

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Every machine is built from components, each with a different service life. Traditionally, life is tracked against a budgeted target, but this often fails to reflect the true condition of the component. By combining actual operating hours with condition-based inspections, Asset Managers gain a more accurate picture of component life: This approach transforms raw inspection […]

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Undercarriage Inspection Tool Kit

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Another Undercarriage Inspection Kit heads out to a team of cts (Custom Track Service) inspectors on a Minesite in Australia Items include: 1. Ultrasonic Tool and Probe 2. Depth Gauge 3. Tape measure 4. Ruler 5. 2 X Calipers 6. String-Line 7. Scraper TrackTreads provides the Toolkits, Software and Training to help Inspectors carry out

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Inspecting and recording cracking on Mobile Field Equipment using a mobile

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Cracks occur any many field equipment components. Management of these cracks ensures that catastrophic failure is avoided. Capturing crack data electronically provides some immediate benefits. There are 4 main steps covered for digitizing crack management. Field Inspectors capture, using mobile phones or tablets, the precise position of the crack on the structure by drawing the

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TrackTreads Wear Management System

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Wear Material comes at a higher cost because the components include extra elemental inclusions and further heat treatment in the hardening process. To gain the full benefit from these components requires achieving a full useful life. Any accelerated wear on the component will lead to a shortened life span and lost value. To gain a

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One System – One purpose – saves time

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A single Mobile App. Operating remotely, allows inspectors to focus on specialized areas of Track, Blade and Bucket GET inspections as well as any other area requiring measuring and observations. Wear material on the components being measured includes surface hardening and treatment, hence the increased cost. Inspecting and managing these components thereby ensures that full

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Condition Monitoring Inspections should drive Maintenance Activities

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Managing Equipment and Components is a tricky business. Condition Monitoring Inspections provide a solid basis for identifying and scheduling maintenance activities: – In contrast, the most expensive way to manage equipment is to fix the machines when they break down. By this stage, the components have failed and there will be a rush to obtain

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A Testimonial of performance lies in the numbers

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Marketing the benefits of your Buckets and Trays can be strengthened with numbers of actual performance from the field. The bucket or tray has a certain capacity, but the difference between competitive products will come down to:- The above numbers can only be gathered by continual inspection and management of the bucket or Tray across

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Measuring Undercarriage Links

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The Track link along with the bush are often the most important components to measure during a machine audit. The links can be measured using 2 of the available tools: Ultrasonic Tool and the Depth Gauge. Ultrasonic Tool The Distance F is measured using the Ultrasonic Tool. A small amount of Gel is placed on

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Crack Management on Field Equipment

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The TrackTreads system provides “cradle to grave” Crack Management in Mobile Fleet Structures. There are 4 main steps covered in the management of these cracks Identification, measurement and setting of limits Field Inspectors capture, using mobile phones or tablets, the precise position of the crack on the structure by drawing the crack on a structural

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