WHEN it comes to maintaining and repairing heavy earth moving equipment, it takes knowledge and experience to carry out the work to the highest standard and in the least amount of time.

Elphinstone Mechanical Services (EMS) is a family-owned WA-based company that has grown to service clients across Australia and South Africa.

EMS regularly carries out tray repairs on site for faster turnarounds.

Keeping a minesite up and running 24 hours a day is no mean feat and it takes a diversely skilled team to manage everything from unexpected repairs to scheduled maintenance and rebuilds.

EMS has grown to cater to the demands made by modern mining companies to keep production processes in motion – particularly in the area of large haul and dump trucks and the huge excavators they serve in an endless procession.

EMS boilermakers repairing tray pivot points

The 50 field service technicians and more than 30 site-based staff include HV electricians to deal with electric drive trucks and earthmoving equipment, auto electricians to handle repairs on mobile plant running 48V or less, boiler makers to take care of repairs to truck trays, chassis and pins, and heavy duty mechanics to make sure that the mechanically driven haul fleet is always operational.

EMS mechanics replacing an engine in large excavator.

Mining companies and contractors need a service company that can handle any problem as quickly as possible to minimise downtime, and when that company has a range of specialists to make that happen, a great deal of comfort is created.

EMS also has experienced HV electricians for electric drive mining equipment repairs and component replacement.

EMS tackles the big jobs on a regular basis – complete machine overhauls, component rebuilds, day to day scheduled maintenance, breakdown repairs, on site welding and line boring services, auto electrical and high voltage mining equipment repairs.

Excavator repairs form a large portion of EMS’s weekly duties. In this case the bucket is being repaired and fitted with new wear plates. EMS have also done everything from track repairs to complete slew bearing replacements on machines up to 800-tonnes.

Due to the company’s diversity, EMS now manages the scheduled service and maintenance of heavy duty mobile plant for a number of customers around the world, while others also require scheduled rebuilds where the crew strips the machine back to a bare chassis and re-assembles it with any and all repairs, refurbishments and replacements carried out before it returns to service.

 

Source:

Elphinstone Mechanical Services (EMS)

(08) 6222 6621

www.emsgroup.net.au

 

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