Tag: machining

DMM Engineering has been operating since 1987, providing the mining industry with a range of capabilities including, design, fabrication, machining and engineering maintenance services. The team has extensive experience with in-situ machining, capability to do onsite or workshop-based machining, and a fabrication division that can tackle all jobs big and small from site repair, installation to erections. “Pre-COVID, DMMeng travelled to WA and QLD mine sites to do in-situ machining as required,” DMMeng director Brendan Pyle said. “Our team has also travelled to Indonesia to perform in-situ machining. No site is too far for us, we’re ready to deliver. “We get trusted with the hard jobs, whether it’s flange facing, milling, journal lathe or in-situ line boring of excavators, wheel…

HYDRAULIC cylinders are the powerhouses of modern mining operations. They work tirelessly in the harshest environments for thousands of hours lifting enormous loads and coping with earth shattering impacts. When all is well, these cylinders are seldom given a second thought on a busy mine site, but when they fail, they suddenly become the focus of attention as equipment goes out of operation and expensive downtime builds. Repairing hydraulic cylinders is viable from both a time and a cost perspective, especially when there is the option to drop off a worn cylinder and pick up a repaired one straight off the shelf. WesTrac’s parts exchange system works exactly this way and ensures that their customers are up and running as…