Baseline
What the customer was running
- Mining chute that processes 100,000 tons per day
- Operating 365 days a year
- Average life of brand X is 17 days
- Average rock size of 7.5 inches
Si-Tec® ceramic bolt-on wear runners increase wear life by 65%
- Feed material
- Ore, average rock size 7.5"
- Equipment
- Mining ore flow chute
Parts
- Si-Tec® ceramic bolt-on wear runner
Photography — Surface
Bolt-on Si-Tec® wear runners installed in an ore flow chute, shot down the chute so the material path across them is legible.
Measured on site
Wear life for the wear runners improved by 65%, going from 17 days installed to 28 days.
Mining ore flow chute — 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
- Extend wear life of wear runners to decrease the number of shut downs for product wear
Results
What was measured
- The Si-Tec® ceramic wear runners lasted 28 days (65% improvement), when they were changed due to a scheduled maintenance shut down
- Provided additional wear life for other support liners
- Longer wear life could reduce shut down frequencies
Value delivered
What it was worth to the operation
- This facility has chosen to use Spokane Si-Tec® ceramic wear runners throughout this location due to the improved wear life
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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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