Baseline
What the customer was running
- Five-shoe table with standard chrome shoes
- Table speed of 1300 RPM
- 125,000 tons annual production
- Standard chrome wear life of three 8-hour shifts
- Two sets per week used, 520 shoes per year
Si-Tec® ceramic shoes increase wear life by 133%
- Location
- Texas, USA
- Feed material
- Sandstone and river rock, 2" minus
- Equipment
- Canica 65
Parts
- 00050121FE Si-Tec® ceramic shoes
Photography — Surface
A Si-Tec® ceramic shoe beside a worn standard chrome shoe from the same machine, same angle, same light. The comparison is the whole point of the frame.
Measured on site
Shoe costs reduced by 60% with Si-Tec® ceramics.
Canica 65 — one machine, one feed material
The record
Read the baseline first.
The improvement only means something against what the machine was doing before it. Published 23 January 2020.
Objective
What the change was meant to do
- Increase wear life of shoes by using Si-Tec® ceramic shoes
- Reduce maintenance time for shoe change-outs
Results
What was measured
- Wear life improved to seven 8-hour shifts (133% improvement)
- Usage reduced from 520 shoes per year to 260 per year (50% improvement)
- Shoe costs reduced by 60% with Si-Tec® ceramics
Value delivered
What it was worth to the operation
- Maintenance time was reduced by 50%, resulting in increased machine up-time and improved safety
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What these numbers are not.
A wear part that lasts twice as long in Tennessee sandstone can do nothing of the kind in Idaho RAP, because the rock, the tonnage, and the geometry are different. Nothing here is a warranty and nothing here is a specification. What SI will do is measure your part in your circuit and put the numbers against the ones you have now.
How Si-Tec® is specifiedSend us what your part does now.
Service life in hours or tons, the feed material, and photographs of where the wear actually is. That is enough to say whether Si-Tec® changes anything in your circuit.
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