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This month during our TrackTreads onsite Undercarriage training, I visited some wonderful new people as well existing colleagues in the United States and Canada I would like to thank everyone who participated in the training from Texas, Kansas City, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Indiana to Alberta. I would also like to thank everyone for their hospitality and goodwill and look forward to working with you all soon again. I would like to make special mention Read more…

In our travels we have yet to find a substitute for Undercarriage Inspections. This is the single most effective way to manage and monitor the performance, condition and cost of your fleet of tracked machines. There is no alternative, and for those salesman looking to help their customers manage these machines and gain sales; inspections are the perfect way to touch and understand the needs of your customer. Don’t wait for the customer to come Read more…

Would inspecting GET and Bucket Wear Surfaces provide value for both maintenance management and condition monitoring purposes? There are some compelling reasons to monitor buckets and GET Production can be affected when the primary loading tool is down to some failure of a bucket, be this missing teeth/adaptors or cracked core. Worn cutting edges, teeth will require greater force needing to be applied to achieve the same penetration. This means higher forces causing accelerated pin Read more…

The Undercarriage Components installed on your equipment are expected to achieve a certain budgeted life. However, this is not where the story ends, because the components will not achieve their budgeted life if they are not properly managed, and the only way to manage undercarriage components is to measure them. Measuring the components will identify and highlight early warning signs of increased wear rates. Wear rates can be increased by a number of causes, including; Read more…

TrackTreads Get/Bucket and Wear Surface Management Inspection software can be used for inspecting and managing Heavy Earthmoving Equipment Chassis for any machine. Record using you mobile phone: To get further information and arrange a free demontration simply fill in the form below.

Condition monitoring is one of the pillars of equipment Maintenance. Every maintenance department ensures Oil samples are taken regularly, but that wasn’t necessarily the case 20 years ago. Imagine asking a maintenance department today if they take oil samples and being told, ‘No, we’re too busy to take Oil Samples’. The importance of regular oil sampling was identified as cost effective for the money it saved and thus, a new norm industry norm was established. Read more…

Undercarriage inspections collect inspection data from the field and allow the calculation of the current degree of wear on each undercarriage component and also allow a forecast of the remaining life on that component.  This is just the beginning of the information that then becomes available. As with any area of a business, good management will result in savings; and Undercarriage Management is a potential goldmine of savings. Warranty – most undercarriage components are covered Read more…

When it comes to providing Undercarriage Management Software, customers are looking for more than just a simple condition report. They are wanting and needing additional functionality to fully manage, monitor and track the history of Undercarriage components as a minimum. On top of that, they want to be guaranteed that their data remains their property and that they can access it when and as they wish. TrackTreads prides itself on responding to customer and industry Read more…

The TrackTreads Undercarriage (UC) Management Software enables UC inspectors to measure Undercarriage components in the field using the Mobile Application connected with an Ultrasonic Tool. This requires each component to be defined. The Undercarriage system is comprised of multiple different components each with their own wear profile definition. Each OEM UC component is heat treated and hardened in specific ways and to different depths, to resist wear. This will define each components wear profile with Read more…

The future profitability of mining or construction, as with any businesses, lies in the effective use of Business Intelligence. BI isn’t just your data, it’s the information you get from effectively analysing your data. It’s the ability to take large, and often very large datasets, and distil them down to the key performance indicators and other relevant metrics that drive efficiency and profitability. A simple example for machine undercarriage is the collection of inspection data. Read more…