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Field Structural Inspections help monitor patterns of cracking

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Digitizing structural field inspections on mobile equipment such as trucks, shovels and dozers allows the collection and recording of the length and position of cracks on components common to the fleet of machines. Crack Length Measurement – Each following inspection will display the existing cracks allowing a further measurement to be recorded. The rate of […]

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Financial Benefits of Managing your Undercarriage

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Undercarriage is a high value wear item and can represent 50% or more of the maintenance costs on large, tracked machines. That represents a huge maintenance cost. Managing the undercarriage can therefore deliver large savings. There are several basic principles to be followed to unlocking these savings. Correct Component Selection – Select the correct undercarriage

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Digital Management of Dump Bodies made easy

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Dump bodies on Off-Highway trucks are a typical component subject to wear rates based on the material being loaded. High wear areas may use sacrificial wear plates or GET for extra protection. Heavy loads can cause flexing of the body with resultant cracking. To track the life and performance of the dump body, we start

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Undercarriage Measuring and Management capability internally at your mine-site is important to achieve 100% life on tracked machines.

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Internal Undercarriage measuring and management capability can deliver large financial benefits

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Digitized Field Inspection Tools to assist Reliability Planning

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The task of Reliability Engineers and planners for the mine-site is to plan and schedule maintenance and repairs to the mobile equipment in order for the equipment to achieve as much uptime as possible for the least amount of cost. This is an extremely complex task requiring the planners to balance many competing variables such

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Managing Undercarriage during times of throttled supply

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The COVID Pandemic has led to a number of new market forces affecting business. Some among others is the slowing of supply chains including the availability of replacement undercarriage components. There are probably a few factors causing this: – Reduced manufacturing capacity at some period over the last 12 months, thus causing a backlog of

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Every Asset is as reliable as its weakest link

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Every component on this machine needs to be regularly inspected to ensure that the machine remains reliable and productive. It is only as good as its weakest Link! Taking oil samples and performing PM’s is not enough to ensure Reliability Every component should be examined on a regular basis to assess its condition and the

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Technology helps make field inspections on Large Mining Machines safer and more efficient!

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Moving Structural and Mechanical Inspections from paper-based forms and spreadsheets to a Digital version of the same form running on a phone or tablet, and allowing the same questions to be answered with measurements, images and comments provides many benefits and challenges to name a few Data Quality improves – data accuracy and consistency improve

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