Are Wear-Related Items Draining Your Maintenance Budget?
Few people think about it until you walk through your storeroom, and realize the quantity and investment in spare parts required to keep their equipment running.
Increasing your equipment’s uptime between emergency repairs, reduces your inventory requirements. This frees up your budget to finally get a few things you would like to have on hand but currently can’t justify having in the budget today.
You recognize those are important items, but are not as urgent today as those you currently stock.
How Much Would You Save If Your Wear Parts Last Longer?
The worn area on this arm sprocket was caused by the constant wear from a long link chain. The wear on this split sprocket is a perfect example to show how AR (Abrasion Resistant) steel does not have the same hardness in the middle of the 3” thick steel plate as it has on the top and bottom face.
The constant wear on this sprocket to move logs in a papermill woodyard requires it to be changed every two years. At over 11,000 pounds, this is a very expensive replacement component.
What they needed was wear resistant steel able to withstand the slurry constantly blasting onto the underside of the cover.
In the past some people have blamed their initial idea, when they needed to calculate how they executed the plan.
How can JADCO assist in extending your equipment life cycle? By evaluating your application to identify the proper wear resistant steel to combat your biggest wear headache.
Strategy is figuring out what you plan to do to meet your goals.
Strategy helps you determine what is truly important, and what is less important. This allows you to properly allocate your resources.
Tactics are the smaller tasks you do.
Strategy and tactics are equally important.
Without a good strategy, you are never going to accomplish your project goals.
But with bad tactics any potential you had, would be doomed before you had a chance to start your project.
Replacing The Material On This Sprocket With JADCO QT-PLUS ®, A Through Hardened Steel, Will Deliver Over Double The Typical Sprocket Life
JADCO’s QT-PLUS delivers greater performance IN YOUR MOST CHALLENGING WEAR APPLICATIONS than the various AR400 steel plates you have used previously.
Being able to create wear resistant steel having the same hardness through the entire thickness of the steel, demands you accurately control the alloying chemistry with precise heat treating.
Doesn’t Every Steel Company Make Their Wear Plate Last As Long As JADCO QT-PLUS ®?
The quick answer is No; although the attention to detail required at the steel mill in Pennsylvania is available to anyone. Yet most wear plate distributors choose to reduce the proper quantities and percentages of these essential alloying elements in their steel, to get a lower selling price.
When you cut back on these critical alloys, wear resistance drops and it is always the customer who suffers.
For over the last 44+ years JADCO has focused exclusively on delivering consistent, longer life for our customers.
We are able to provide better results for our customers, because we think differently by strictly focusing on improving your current results.
Now you can understand why JADCO delivers better performance results for our customers.
Allow us to help you today by calling 724.452.5252, or email info@jadcomfg.com.
We will schedule a meeting with one of our local wear plate specialists at a time that best fits your schedule.
Remember, the only thing you have to lose by not working with JADCO, are your profits.
