Mining Maintenance Requires the Correct Type of Fasteners

There is a certain amount of attention being raised across the mining industry about the importance of maintenance. Equipment is the backbone of mining operations and the maintenance is ongoing and costly. Fasteners play a huge part in that equation and the maintenance staff need to know the correct sizes and styles to ensure the equipment and safety structures are operating well.

Imagine the cost of a fastener failure in a mining operation. Not only could the financial damage be significant, but also the potential for loss of life is great. This should make the maintenance staff realize that spotting weakened fasteners, replacing damaged fasteners and generally keeping an eye on things is vastly important.

Keeping Up a Good Stock  

                                                                                            

It is important that the maintenance supply include a full stock of fasteners for every type of machinery on the site. Whether that is the mining equipment or the transportation vehicles, the support structures or the monitoring devices, fasteners specific to each application need to be close at hand.

Why

When there is an issue with equipment or vehicles there is very often a certain amount of downtime. The larger pieces of equipment are worked exceptionally hard and generally do not have a back up waiting in the wings to take over when they are down for maintenance. That means that the repair staff needs to act quickly to reduce the amount of downtime and get that particular area of operation up and running again.

As you can imagine, having to wait for fasteners is not considered efficient, whereas sorting through a stock of quality, correct mining fasteners will take little time. A supply of these essential parts will speed the repairs along nicely. 

Be sure that all of the fasteners are sorted well, labelled and inventoried as needed to keep the supply current and dependable. The maintenance staff will need to be trained as to which fastener is used with which piece of equipment - education is an important safeguard against fastener failure due to the wrong choice or improper installation.

Maintenance serves a vital role in the mining industry and fasteners are one of the most used components in that maintenance. Keeping a good supply of the correct fasteners is wise and helps keep the operation running smoothly each day.