Mines & Quarries Tag

Looking after everything related to hydraulics and pneumatics, Fellipe Ramos, Category Manager for Fluid Power at Motion Australia, has a comprehensive understanding of the important role hydraulics play on Australian mines, and stresses that effective filtration can be the make or break of an entire...

Various environmental factors on outdoor sites can affect the process of power transmission, including extreme temperature ranges, coarse dust particles, and strong vibrational impact. Most of the time, these obstacles are inevitable, so ensuring efficient maintenance and change-over producers is crucial to minimising costly downtime. According...

Remote monitoring and automated performance data feeds are becoming crucial tools for the mining and quarrying sectors. The Gates® Design Power™ digital portfolio allows CBC to conduct overview and analysis of belt-drive systems for customer sites, accurately calculating dimensions, tension, transmission capacity, energy and cost...

How can a site or reliability manager ensure belts are achieving their life expectancy and that drives are working at optimal efficiency? According to Steve Hittmann, who is the National Product Manager for Mechanical Drive Systems at CBC, the Gates® Design Flex™ Pro™ free software tool...

The Timken® Spherical Roller Bearing Solid-Block Housed Units are solid-blocks of steel that have been designed to eliminate the risk of bearing contamination. “These units are completely sealed off and come pre-assembled – unlike standard bearings which are supplied in separate components, the bearing, housing and...

If power transmission equipment is underperforming, Milan Sreckov will propose an alternative solution – which was the case with an “earth-moving customer.”  As a Technical Specialist in Power Transmission for CBC, he often visits customer sites to perform an assessment on troublesome applications. This was the case...

With electric motors responsible for over 80% of electricity use in heavy industries, it’s a sensible choice for mines to adopt energy-efficient motors of IE3 efficiency level and above. Through TECO Australia, CBC provides a range of high-efficiency motors to the mining industry ­– including the TECO...

Handling and storing gaskets and packaging products can be a challenging task if your inventory includes thousands of different line items. CBC Business Development Manager Rod Baker and Seal Innovations recently audited a major power station and helped reduce their gasket inventory from 5649 individual...

Helping remote mines with condition monitoring for their assets is part of the service offering of Schaeffler Australia, which the company can conduct for CBC’s customers in collaboration with CBC. Rod Baker, CBC’s Mining Segment Manager says a key strength of the CBC- Schaeffler technical team is...