Are You Planning A Maintenance Outage?

The focus of a Reliability Manager looking to replace wear resistant steel is to search for the longest lasting, most cost-effective solution for their unique application.

Partnering with JADCO, up front, assures you will receive the correct replacement parts within your budget, and have them arrive in your time frame.

Here a hammer mill was inspected three weeks after replacing their Manganese hammers. They will not last another two weeks.
Here is where partnering with JADCO will avoid having the customer continuing to use the wrong material for their hammer. Switching to QT-PLUS^® increased the hammer life to EIGHT TIMES LONGER. We will recommend the correct material for your application.

A recently graduated engineer called asking,

“How soon can we get a specific component rebuilt?”

WHAT IS THE CORRECT RESPONSE?

The ‘salesman of the month’ with little training or product knowledge, will instantly respond with an answer to make you happy, despite any idea if they can actually make it happen.

A ‘vendor partner’ will immediately begin asking additional questions. It is important to discover what is needed, instead of trying to figure out if the production schedule has any wiggle room.

The Correct Approach is to ask questions about the installation, to see how we can assure it will be correct for the client’s application.

The answers uncover they don’t have a spare, so they hoped to remove it just ahead of their 2-week outage, and send it to us. The idea is to strip it down and rebuild it with new CHROMEWELD™ 600 wear plates, ship it back in time to install it for the projected start-up.

At This Point:

They can’t confirm the current condition of the existing components.
We have a couple photos from the last inspection, but that was over six months ago.
They do have file drawings showing the wear plates, but those don’t match the photos.

Oh, and how Much Will This Cost?

Here Is The Dilemma
– Doing What Is Requested, Or What The Actually Need?

Do we quote exactly what is shown on the drawings, or what we see in the photos?
Are you certain which version you are asking for?
Do we quote the materials listed on the drawing? Or the most cost effective version?
Or do you want the best performance and longest life? Frequently the price difference between the best vs. cheapest, is less than 30%.

The Purchasing Manager…looks at a 30% cost difference and could eliminate the better performing option from consideration, due to a higher price.

The Reliability Engineer …is searching for the longest lasting, most cost effective solution for this specific application.

The Maintenance Department …expects to install it and not have to think about it for years. They have plenty to do without the same disappointing results from another bargain part. “It is just as good but cheaper”, seldom delivers the results you desire.

Rather than instantly blurt out an answer on cost or speed, we need to gather all the information and variables. Then together we can compare accurate information with historical performance data, and determine the best solution for your application.

For the past 44+ years, JADCO has provided the longest lasting wear resistant steel to heavy industry. As the industry leader, we know what will deliver the best results for your equipment.

We take pride in meeting your critical schedules involved with shutdown projects. We understand how essential it is to meet your delivery needs when you have outside contractors standing by to install your equipment.

Check out our Resources Tab, to provide you with the information you need regardless:

Case Studies – success stories in your industry
JADCOpedia – answers to steel and metallurgy terms for everyone
Steel Weight Calculator – how much will my steel weigh?
X-Plainer | How-To’s – Answers to your questions on forming | welding | cutting JADCO products
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Gallery – a variety of application photos
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When you use these Resources, you will quickly understand why we are able to deliver better results to our customers. We think differently by strictly focusing to improve your current results.

When The Customer Is Educated, We Never Have To Hard Sell

At JADCO, we think differently by strictly focusing on your 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.