MANAGEMENT

The benefits of reduced maintenance costs and downtime

Enhancing, repairing and refurbishing large, high value, or hard to replace components is a key concern for the mining industry, with the maintenance service sector for heavy off-highway vehicles (OHV) remaining resilient. Localising the application of engineered surface coatings can dramatically reduce downtime when complex parts prematurely reach the end of their service life. Derek Vanek of SIFCO Applied Surface Concepts (ASC) discusses the application benefits and possibilities of selective plating

Derek Vanek
 Portable selective brush plating has been hailed as the maintenance solution of choice by many leading off-highway vehicle maintenance providers

Portable selective brush plating has been hailed as the maintenance solution of choice by many leading off-highway vehicle maintenance providers

The total global heavy machinery equipment (HME) service market is anticipated to reach a value of US$33 billion by the end of 2018. It remains a highly fragmented market with many purchasers relying on...

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