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Use Undercarriage Inspections to fight the impact of inflation

Track Inspections serve a number of purposes, but a few of the more important reasons are: In the image below, the budget life, of the undercarriage components for a large Dozer, is 8,000 hours, and the cost of replacing the undercarriage is $250,000. Thus, in the above example the undercarriage would be replaced 3 times – 8,000 hours, 16,000 hours and 24,000 machine hours, and the total cost would be $750,000 or $31.25/hour In a Read more…

By John, ago

Managing Swing Track Chains in the yard

Chains must be able to be tracked from cradle to grave. In any mining environment, chains needing maintenance, whether it’s a regrousing of shoes or a pin and bush turn, will need to be taken off the machine and placed in the yard, ready to repair. To keep the machine productive while the maintenance is being completed on the removed chain, a replacement chain needs to be installed on the machine. Once the maintenance has Read more…

By John, ago

One System – One purpose – saves time

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 life can be achieved from the components. Any accelerated wear will be identified quickly, and corrective action taken. This will Read more…

By John, ago

Condition Monitoring Inspections should drive Maintenance Activities

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 parts at short notice and get the machine back to work. Too often this is the default position because companies Read more…

By John, ago

A Testimonial of performance lies in the numbers

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 its entire life. Repeating this multiple times across different mining environments then provides a wealth of data which provides a Read more…

By John, ago