Does your material handling plant suffer downtime? Do you need to stop production at times that you can't afford? A big contributor to these unfortunate events is inferior wear material.

You need the best available wear material management system to eliminate these unfortunate events that steal valuable plant availability and cause dents in your maintenance budget. Unplanned downtime has an enormous effect on productivity and on any operation's bottom line. It is expensive to fix and introduce additional safety risk to operations. The remedy: a proper WEAR management system.

ProGO WEAR developed a unique eight step wear management system. This system enables the team to identify where improvements can be made to plants as well as the correct specification on wear material. Wear material has developed tremendously over the last couple of years and many operations are still stuck with solutions that were implemented decades ago. It is imperative to stay on the forefront of these developments and to make the best material part of your cavalry to combat wear in your plant. Figure 1 depicts the wear resistance properties of ABRACLAD60 compared to other commonly used wear materials. 

Together with quality materials comes design. ProGo has in-house design capability to review current design of installation and assess improvement on designs to reduce wear. ProGO conduct field service inspections where they generate wear maps and product catalogues for plants. These wear maps provide invaluable information that assist in determining wear rates and predictive change-outs of wear parts. 

Advantages of Wear Maps 

The following are advantages that can be derived from the output of conducting wear surveys and generating product catalogues. When the wear-rate of a wear part is known, provision can be made to have spare parts in time for scheduled outages. The management system assists by identifying only the required wear parts to be changed, therefore reducing the number of unnecessary parts. 

As part of the management system, product catalogues ensure that accurate drawings and information are available on all parts. This reduces the risk of parts not fitting correctly in a plant. It is also a great tool that can be used to continuously improve on the lifecycle costing and make wear parts performance fit into an outage schedule. 

Material Supplied 

To support the wear management system, ProGO WEAR has partnered with the best in the world to supply wear parts, as well as ProGO, who have supplier agreements with suppliers that manufacture premium quality wear material. ABREMA is supporting ProGO WEAR with the supply of ABRACLAD chrome carbide overlay plates and Roxdur, a new product which supplies unique cemented carbide wear material for extremely high wear abrasive applications. We have been successful to demonstrate the improvements in cost saving and increasing plant uptime by supplying ABRACLAD60 to various customers over the last few years. 

What It Boils Down To 

The product of implementing a wear management system is the reduction in total cost of ownership and increase in plant avail-
ability. This is where most value is added to an operation and it forms part of the last two processes in the wear management system: continuous improvement and proof that the total cost of ownership has reduced, by supplying our wear parts to a customer. ProGO WEAR has been successful in reducing the total cost of ownership for clients on various projects. Examples of these are dragline bucket liner kits, customer designed wear packages for dump bodies, liners for chutes and high abrasive wear pipes are a few of our successful projects completed.