Industrial gearboxes play an essential role in many different industries. By keeping them in excellent condition, production costs can be decreased while efficiency increased.
Dusty environments present the biggest challenge to this equipment, which may cause it to clog or grind away seals and bearings, necessitating detailed repairs in order to prevent downtime and maximize productivity.
Aggregate Manufacturing Gearbox Repairs
Broken industrial gearboxes can halt production and cause considerable financial losses, so to reduce costly repairs it is crucial to perform regular maintenance of them in order to keep your equipment in top working condition and ensure improved productivity and reduced downtime. By performing preventive maintenance you will keep it working at optimal performance and benefit from enhanced productivity with reduced downtime.
Aggregate manufacturing equipment must withstand challenging operational and environmental conditions, including long operating hours with frequent starts, stops, reversals and high loads such as shock/impulse loading; caustic materials; ambient temperatures and constant vibration/abrasion exposure. If equipment selection or size are insufficient or incorrectly selected, failure could occur early leading to costly downtime and product loss.
Due to Industry 4.0 trends, industrial automated machinery markets are projected to experience rapid expansion. Automation systems allow companies to reduce labor requirements while improving productivity; this trend should drive growth for industrial gearbox markets worldwide.
Aggregate Manufacturing Gearbox Services
Gearboxes play an indispensable role in many industrial applications. If a gearbox breaks down, production could come to a halt and cost money; therefore, proper care of equipment should be prioritized and several companies provide various services that help keep it functioning at peak capacity.
These companies employ stringent procedures to ensure all components are renewed or repaired to the highest quality, using stringent testing to confirm functionality of renewed equipment. Technicians, engineers, and factory personnel use rigorous checks on renewed items before shipping back out for reuse.
Expert technicians disassemble gearboxes to inspect every component. Once complete, they replace faulty parts, lubricate, test, and paint the units – as well as provide warranties to give customers peace of mind while saving on future repair costs.
Aggregate Manufacturing Gearbox Rebuild
Aggregate manufacturers face many unique challenges in their operations. These can range from harsh operating conditions that wear down equipment, leading to unplanned downtime and lost productivity, to gearbox reconditioning that helps minimize unplanned downtime while increasing longevity of equipment.
Once a gearbox arrives at our shop, technicians dismantle and assess its condition to ascertain its cause of failure and how best to prevent further incidents in the future.
Rebuilt gearboxes are then assembled and tested, including no-load spin tests, tooth contact and backlash inspection, shaft end play measurement and recording. Crated or skidded containers are then utilized for shipment of the rebuilt units.
Aggregate Manufacturing Gearbox Refurbishment
Gearboxes used in the aggregate industry must withstand rigorous operating conditions, which often includes long hours with heavy loads, frequent starts/stops/reversals and frequent starts/stops/reversals. Such factors may eventually lead to premature equipment failure resulting in lost productivity and costly downtime – therefore it is vitally important that regular gearbox maintenance takes place.
Refurbishing a 2MW gearbox typically costs the same as buying new, although logistics and crane requirements associated with replacing or extracting damaged units may incur extra expenses of over EUR100,000.
An effective gearbox renewal company should boast extensive engineering, design, and manufacturing capabilities as well as offering warranties for their work to ensure that it satisfies factory specifications.
Aggregate Manufacturing Gearbox Overhaul
Industrial gearboxes are critical components in manufacturing operations, enabling manufacturing operations to run more smoothly and meet production goals without interruption or missing targets. Unexpected equipment failure can cause production disruptions, missed goals and increased operating costs – but one way of mitigating such costs is with an industrial gearbox overhaul.
Starting by disassembling the gearbox components and conducting an assessment of their failure, an evaluation is then undertaken in order to ascertain the scope and nature of necessary repairs. Once these have been carried out, reassembling and testing will follow.
Rapid Gear has earned an impeccable professional reputation over their 30+ year run as a supplier of industrial gearbox repairs. Members of AGMA, compliant with ISO 9001:2008 standards and an active Canadian Controlled Goods Certificate can all be found within their 40,000 sq ft Kitchener, Ontario facility which is conveniently situated near major highways and airports.