Every manufacturing company schedules time for annual maintenance shutdowns. Many organizations call these an "outage," to make required repairs and take preventative action to avoid emergency equipment failures. "Even the best equipment needs scheduled repairs periodically." This statement was brought to mind two days ago, after seeing the recent television broadcast...
For many, this may just be another Monday. For those of us in the United States of America; it is certainly a reason to celebrate. When you consider all the advancements in the past 246 years, the great men pictured on Mount Rushmore could not possibly imagine the remarkable innovations...
JADCO client/customers recognize we do things differently than other wear-resistant steel vendors. One major difference is we partner with our customers, and implement our Wear Evaluation Process. "If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing." Dan Sullivan’s Law of Process The...
You have a lot of money, time, and sweat equity invested in your production equipment. Whether it’s new equipment, or if it’s well-piled and has seen several seasons, you need to constantly do what you can to maximize and improve your uptime and equipment longevity. The wear plates in your...
The wear steel industry has plenty of order takers who will promise you a wear solution without concern if it fits your application or not. It doesn’t take you long to discover if the products you invested in will actually solve your problem, or only continue to prolong your...
Our most profitable customers have several traits in common, especially in documenting their test results. They also know when to drop things after testing shows that it is not delivering better results. You know what they say..."The best way to get out of a hole is to stop digging...
Our valued customers/clients often see a domino effect of positive results when they partner with JADCO.As you may or may not know, every client that partners with JADCO will spend much less time replacing their AR400, AR450 or AR500 wear plate; that is a given fact. It is why...
CUSTOMERS ASK... JADCO DELIVERS Over recent years, the industry results using JADCO UltraBond welding wire for installing QT-Plus®, AR400, AR500, and other heat-treated wear-resistant steel has been highly successful. Our customers have been so impressed with FUSION™ UltraBond wire, they requested we offer the matching performance in a stick...
WHY DO YOU NOT RUN A NEW SPROCKET ON AN OLD CHAIN? If you install a new sprocket and run on the used chain, your pitch is going to be offset. Pitch is the distance from one pin to the next pin, and that distance needs to match both the...
Working with wear-resistant steel in heavy industry, we are often overwhelmed by daily, if not hourly issues and challenges. Early in my career, I would ask people what wear problems they had experienced, and surprisingly, 90% of the people responded that they didn’t have ANY wear problems. This was...
The name AR400 steel indicates to most people the steel they are buying is 400 BHN (Brinell) hardness. Because there are no industry guidelines or standards for wear plate, it can be any hardness at all. We have seen foreign-made steel wear plate sold as AR400; test at 302...
Every manufacturing company in the USA is trying to find workers as the Baby Boomers are retiring from the workforce daily. It is a challenge for every firm and skilled trades in particular. While high tech can assist in getting information to the masses, they are not at the...
OUR “WEAR PLATE WEDNESDAY” AUTHOR
“My hands on experience with wear resistant steel and welding solutions since 1993 will assist you to get longer equipment life and greater profitability.
As a guest welding instructor at Fox Valley Technical College in Appleton, Wisconsin; I deliver technical information and application expertise in everyday language; insuring the information is not only understood, but easily retained. You will not find 25-cent words in this Wear Plate Wednesday Blog, just straight forward information to deliver the best return on your efforts.”
We are always talking with our customers about the wear and impact challenges they face in doing business.
Each industry has unique challenges to overcome when it comes to moving and manipulating products. While our experienced sales and fabrication teams have seen alot, they have not seen it all. Now, with supply chain issues, there are even more challenges to overcome, keeping machines running optimally , and in some cases, running at all. Is there something your team is having trouble finding?
If so, talk with a JADCO professional.
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