Engineering Concerns
When you install wear plate that lasts longer than your current wear resistant steel, it doesn’t take any extra time. That is working smarter; not harder. When your underperforming wear plate fails, everything stops to change it out. That takes up all of your spare time you had in your day.
Regardless of your individual task, every other person in the process depends on your recommendations.
How can you possibly make the correct determination, when you are working from incorrect information by people who do not know what is best for your application? Who can you believe?
You can’t radically change the process or engineer your problems away, without a large capital investment. Your equipment lasts longer when you use higher quality wear resistant steel.
To succeed, you partner with people who have your best interest at heart.
Engineers compare the data. What type of wear steel, the size, length, thickness, benefits, etc.? When you become insecure about a prior decision, you go back and review all the features and benefits.
Having the proper balance of alloying elements, along with the heat treatment process, is critical to create longer lasting wear resistant steel.
To understand what data is important to evaluate, we will show you what to look for. Only then can you select the correct material, for the longest life, at your lowest cost per month.
We use exacting ratios of steel alloys, but if you don’t take the additional steps like calcium injection, – then none of those things matter.
Certainly these steps make QT-PLUS ® are time consuming and more expensive. Isn’t your goal to have a steel that lasts longer?
It is relatively easy, and inexpensive to make steel hard. It is also easy to create a steel that takes impact.
The real art in making wear resistant steel, is creating a steel hard enough to resist abrasion, and still withstand greater impact.
Maintenance knows how to fix it when it breaks. They know, “If I get this problem solved, I don’t have to think about it for a while and get to move onto solving the next challenge.” When we get your current challenge resolved, you can go onto all the other fun projects waiting for you. Plant Managers – trust their staff has the ability and experience to resolve your issues.The Key to Resolving Your Wear Steel Challenges.
Notice how rapidly the competitor’s steel loses hardness away from the surface of the steel. The QT-PLUS ® through hardness, delivers longer life than commodity grade AR plate. It can survive impact without deforming, and resists abrasion at the same rate throughout its life.
JADCO hands you the keys to get your processes toughened up and moving again. You want the keys to open the correct doors and resolve these issues. Together we will open it up and see what the problem is, analyze the issue and solve it.
Perhaps it will be solved by installing a better quality product, in that area of the process. Perhaps it can be accomplished by re-engineering the problem away.
By addressing the issue early in the system, we will eliminate the compounding effect downstream.
In 1993, one customer’s major goal was to achieve 30 days consecutive production, without a breakdown.
By 2024, their standard is scheduling shutdowns between 24 and 30 months out. They accomplished this improvement, by using the best materials and engineering away many of their problems.
They are operating at 99.965% uptime including dealing with natural disasters such as blizzards, tornados and power black outs.
Initially they bought a significant amount of wear plate to control their wear issues. By solving one challenge after another, their investments over time have slowed down substantially.
By quickly solving many easy issues, they now have time to focus on more demanding problems.
There are more vendors selling wear steel today than ever before. Many clutter the market by not understanding what makes them different or if they can deliver greater value. Very few wear plate companies understand your unique wear challenges, or the dynamics of your individual applications.
Numerous opinions can confuse engineers, maintenance and purchasing managers who are now uncertain what to buy. You don’t want to make a mistake, so it becomes difficult to know exactly what to do.
As a result, a confused mind delays making a buying decision. In the end, they keep reordering the same material time after time, and wonder why things never improve.
How many salespeople don’t deliver on their promises?
You graduated with an engineering degree; and likely learned more in the first 60 days in industry than in your 4+ years of college.
The real world shows you what looked good on paper, may not cut it in real world applications.
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 alloy content required at the steel mill is available to anyone. Yet most wear plate distributors choose to reduce the proper quantities and percentages of these essential alloying elements, to get a lower selling price.
When you cut back on these critical alloys, wear life drops, and it is always the customer who suffers.
For the last 45 years JADCO has focused exclusively on delivering consistent, longer equipment life for our customers.
We are able to deliver better results to our customers, because we think differently. How? By strictly focusing on improving your current results.
Allow us to help you today by emailing us at info@jadcomfg.com or calling (724) 452-5252.
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.
When your flat back elbows give out, give JADCO a shout!
