MAINTENANCE
because they know we have the expertise to help them make informed maintenance decisions that can enhance operational safety, reduce environmental impacts and boost their productivity,” said Chima Eze, Global Industrial Lubricants Brand Manager at ExxonMobil.
“ The new educational content available in our redesigned Industrial Lubricants website supplements our field engineers’ work to help industrial operators, managers and equipment maintenance professionals to stay on top of current trends and achieve their equipment goals,” Eze said.
This new content is part of a wider range of enhancements to the new Industrial Lubricants website. For example, the site offers improved search functionality that allows visitors to search easily for equipment builders, lubrication specifications, and topics, to find the product and service information they need. The site also includes responsive design to optimise the viewing experience on any device.
Maintenance tools
At a large US gold mine, routine maintenance is required on a P & H 4100XPC electric rope shovel after every 30,000 hours of operation. The maintenance activities require the upper section to be lifted off the car body to machine bearing surfaces and inspect and repair structural
The Enerpac Pow’ R-Lock offers continuous load locking technology and provides locking protection during lift, lower and hold functions
components. Weighing approximately 1,000 t, lifting the upper car body requires a significant amount of force and control. The maintenance team at Joy Global reached out to Enerpac to deliver a shovel lift system to undeck a shovel in approximately one hour and be transported on the highway without oversized load permits. The speed and safety of the lift were critical components to reducing labor and equipment downtime.
Enerpac states:” We had previously built a similar shovel lift system for Joy Global’ s
maintenance team in Chile. The second generation system built for Joy Global’ s service team in Gillette provided significantly more speed. The system included four 500 t cylinders with 72 in of stroke, an EVO synchronous control unit and four custom 8000 series hydraulic pumps. Each pump was built to operate in extremely cold or hot environments. The EVO synchronous control unit enabled a single operator to control the entire lift and ensure each lifting point remained within 3 / 8 of an inch. The shovel was successfully undecked in
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