Новости за 13.10.2017

One of the biggest challenges facing the mining industry with regard to its motors, gear drives and belt drives is protection from adverse weather conditions and the resulting ingress of dust and moisture, says pumps manufacturer Australian Pumps, commonly known as Aussie Pumps. “In the Pilbara, in Western Australia, where all the big iron-ore mines are, they have monsoonal rain and frequent dust storms. As such, we’ve started supplying Envelop protective covers for capital equipment in that area,” Aussie Pumps MD Warwick Lorenz notes.

All rotating machinery is susceptible to misalignment and the conventional methods of measuring alignment, such as rulers and dial indicators, are outdated and inaccurate, says industrial equipment supplier Comtest Group. The company points out that these methods could result in inadequate alignment, thereby costing the end-user “thousands of rands a year in replacement bearing costs, hours of unnecessary repair time, crippling unplanned downtime and a probable decrease in the machine's useful life”.

Bearings and power transmission product distributor Bearings International (BI) – a member of Hudaco Group – highlights the cost benefits of its KML bearings offering amid local economic conditions. The current economic climate, characterised particularly by the suppressed mining sector, has resulted in an emphasis on cost reduction, which, as a consequence, has led to some misguided attempts to lower costs by procuring products “on the basis of price and nothing else.”