When one cares about things, one becomes engaged with it;
one will find certain costs associated with it – providing sleepless nights and
grayness, especially when providing hydraulic solutions! However, if you
think you have had your fair share of headaches when it comes to hydraulic
repairs put them to rest and read on!
As a leading hydraulic solution company A-Tech
Hydraulics deals with many different corporations and one of these is the Coal Mine
business and when it comes to hydraulic oil treatment keeping it clean and
filtered, taking oil samples, and servicing this is where we come in.
However, with time issues seem to crop up and thus using the
wrong hydraulic oil and with weather conditions at time temperatures range up
to +30°, or can even go below
-40°. In many situations, we
use VG68 hydraulic oil during warmer periods and switch to VG32 for the colder
months.
These storage tanks have a capacity of up to 55,000l and
this one-month we ordered the VG32 oil for the winter months ahead 15,000l of
this oil was added to the main tank. As the technician had recently started
working here it took some time for him to figure out why the analysis report
was so far out to make a long story short the specs was sent on to the oil
supplier.
It left us with trying to figure out where this oil was
going. This oil is expensive and one does not want to waste it! As they had
recently had maintenance done, we assumed that the least of our concerns were
hydraulic leaks.
Finally, we took a helicopter ride to view the situation
from the air and with such a large organization there is loads of money
involved in keeping the hydraulic systems up and running and someone has to
step up and take responsibility!
The main problems are that the bean counter had not told us how many millions they spend on the mine in replacing hydraulic components throughout the year and what % they spend is needed as savings in order to recover the additional ½ million bucks for multi-viscosity, hydraulic oil, and more.
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