Inspection
Investing in Knowledge and Experience
The TrackTreads Support Team experiencing undercarriage inspections first hand
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Measuring Bushes during Undercarriage Audits
Pins and bushes can be one of the trickiest components to measure when performing a machine audit. Here are some tips and thoughts to help you.The Pin and bush on the undercarriage chain is subjected to wear from 2 directions depending on whether the machine is being operated in the Read more…
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Achieving savings with Undercarriage Wear
Undercarriage, as a wear material on equipment is expensive due to the extra heat treatment and processing required to improve its wear properties. There are 2 ways to save money Avoid accelerated wear Utilise the wear material to its full available life Accelerated wear – is where the components become Read more…
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Undercarriage Frame Rebuilds – Grave to Cradle
Rebuilding worn out Undercarriage Frames provides each frame with a new lease of life. The frames arrive worn out and cracked. They are stripped down to the bare minimum Each disassembled part is measured, and assessed to determine whether it can be refurbished or needs replacing Cracks are identified, gouged Read more…
Dump Bodies
Crack Management on Field Equipment
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 Read more…
Reliability Engineering
Sometimes is it good to go back to basics. 4 Basic Pillars of Undercarriage Management
Collecting Undercarriage Field Inspection data – Measuring the undercarriage component wear needs to be done regularly and accurately. Readings should then be supported by images and comments. Automatic calculation of % wear and the physical limits along with any prior reading history help the Inspector provide quality information. All this Read more…
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How many $ Dollars lie in this boneyard of Undercarriage Components
A boneyard of Scrapped Undercarriage components tells a story of how the undercarriage components are managed. Components with life remaining = money lost
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Getting value for your money in Undercarriage
Get value from your undercarriage by running it to between 112% and 120% worn
Field Inspections
The most important Undercarriage Inspection of them all
The last inspection before the undercarriage is removed is the most important and provides a wealth of information
Field Inspections
Field Structural Inspections help monitor patterns of cracking
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 Read more…