For Longer Equipment Life, Start with a Steel Checkup
Many people try to avoid a devastating heart attack by eating right, getting exercise, getting proper sleep and taking proper medications. Doing these things will normally help people live longer.
Doesn’t Your Equipment Deserve The Same Attention?
Keep Your Equipment Healthy With JADCO Check Ups.
Just like your body, if you don’t take care of your equipment; you can’t expect it to last a long time.
Steel “lifetime” differs…like genetics, it depends on what’s in the steel, the alloys, and how well you take care of “the body.”
Have you noticed immediately after an equipment breakdown…Why is the first action often finger pointing?
It seems the critical task at that moment is to find out what happened, rather than trying to find who to blame.
Effective “Root Cause Analysis” for production equipment issues, needs to involve both operations and maintenance crews.
What is the root cause of the of problem?
Was it an equipment problem? Is it a process problem? Did it turn into a safety issue?
Operations & maintenance need to support each other, rather than trying to assign blame.
Alloys In Steel Are Like Medication, Both Deliver Longer Life!
Just like various medications work together to keep your body healthy, alloys in steel make the wear plate last longer.
Here Are The Benefits When These Alloys Are Added To Steel.
Click on the element names below to see their definition and understand why they are important.
Many additional terms can be found on our website in the resource section under JADCOPEDIA.
NIckel is one of the most widely used alloying elements in steel. In amounts from 0.50% to 5.00% in alloy steels, Nickel increases the toughness and tensile strength while maintaining ductility. Nickel also increases the hardenability.
Chromium increases the steel’s hardenability, corrosion resistance, and provides wear and abrasion resistance in the presence of carbon.
Boron is used as an alloying element in unalloyed and low alloyed steels for hardness enhancement. Boron is effective even at very small concentrations, of just 0.0010%. Boron has the same hardenability enhancement as the more expensive elements, which need larger quantities to be added to deliver the same hardness result.
Molybdenum is used as an alloying element in steel to increase hardenability and in low alloy steels reduces temper brittleness. Added to stainless steel, Molybdenum increases corrosion resistance.
Steel containing vanadium have a much finer grain structure. Vanadium increases hardenability and also lessens softening on tempering. Vanadium combined with other alloying elements, is used in nitriding, heat resisting, tool and spring steels.
Small amounts of Titanium added to steel contribute to a finer grain size. Titanium carbide is also used with tungsten carbide in producing hard metal tools. In austenitic stainless steels, Titanium acts as a carbide stabilizer.
In QT-PLUS ®, The Correct Ratio Of These Alloying Elements Delivers The Longest Life Of Any Heat Treaded Wear Resistant Steel Available.
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. Check out QT-PLUS Today!
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 is profit.
