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Wear parts are on the front line at mine sites to extract, excavate and move material and they also need to protect the primary asset being used for material handling. If the quality of the steel that goes into the parts is inferior, and if the casting process is not completed to a high standard, they will wear out sooner. This not only leads to higher maintenance costs through the need to replace wear parts more regularly. It also blows a giant hole in the budget by failing to protect the main asset such as the parent bucket, which will also need to be replaced sooner. Lower quality wear parts also lead to more resistance, and therefore lost productivity, when…