DecaEdge™ Delivers Maintenance and Safety Benefits

The Impact

With CR’s expert advice and the durable DE2559 cast lip, the Mine operator has achieved outstanding productivity performance benefits and significantly reduced operating costs. CR understood the Mine operator’s focus on employee safety on site and ensured it was a key design feature for this product. Since the introduction of the CR GET product, the site has achieved zero GET-related safety incidents.

Other achievements include:

• • Zero safety incidences recorded since the introduction of CR GET in 2015
  • 17,364 hours with zero maintenance or down time recorded
  • $80,000+ annual savings forecasts on preventative and reactive maintenance per loader
  • Significant reduction in GET cost per hour rate
  • Improved productivity and reduced on-site safety risk due to elimination of hot works associated with plate lip adaptor repairs and maintenance
  • Elimination of wear runners, blocks and associated down time required to fit and remove them
  • Improved shroud underside and top surface wear profile
  • Strength increases, mass and digging force reductions
  • Improved plane alignment and spade angle optimisation
  • $69,000 reduction in GET costs per loader per annum using specifically designed superior CR GET product range

  Note: Across a fleet of 40 large wheel loaders, a conservative review highlights the introduction of DecaEdge across this Mine operators fleet could result in maintenance and GET savings of AUD~$6.8M per annum.