Choosing the right tyre brand and pattern for quarry-spec machines can be the first step in ensuring optimum cost and operational management. After all, not all tyres are created equal.
The right tyre can deliver improved productivity, cost management and tyre life performance, reducing tyre consumption, spend and replacement service costs, as well as subsequently reducing downtime. Other performance benefits that come with choosing the right tyre include safety, grip, traction, damage resistance, etc.
However, while tyre choice is crucially important, the other part of the equation which mustn’t be overlooked is the services around this tyre choice. This is where Michelin’s Quarry Productivity Solutions
come into play.
While baseline recommendations can include product and pressure advice, ensuring the optimum product and pressure to carry the load, and resulting in optimised safety, performance, and wear, other numerous added value opportunities are encompassed within Michelin’s Quarry Productivity Solutions. These include consulting services tailored for quarries to provide additional levels of collaboration.
For too long, the relationship between tyre manufacturers and quarries have revolved around price (rather than value), or increasing tyre life as much as possible. Today, Michelin’s Productivity Solutions can help producers optimise the value of their tyre choices by optimising their quarry’s output. To make this happen, Michelin representatives have extremely innovative and powerful analytical tools to support their quarrying customers.
Whether the goal is to safely maximise productivity (through use of a tyre which allows you to carry more load), better use of the tyre’s thermal potential (by increasing average speed), increasing tyre life and achieving subsequent cost reductions (through reduced consumption or fitting) or downtime reductions, Michelin Productivity Solutions can help producers achieve
their objectives through a tailored consultancy approach.
In collaboration with Michelin representatives, Productivity Solutions can provide quarrying producers with the necessary expertise, tyre and operational analysis, to support their objectives, managing the proposal and implementation of the productivity actions.
Michelin’s core objective is to work with its customers to optimise the value and work performed by the tyre in their operations, eg:
- What contribution is the tyre making in your operation today?
- What additional contribution could be made by the tyre in terms of safety, value, productivity and efficiency?
Michelin’s strategic vision is to improve an operation’s productivity by utilising the full potential of Michelin tyres. It seeks to implement this vision through:
- People who work closely with customers to understand their businesses and objectives, providing expertise in the science of tyres.
- Data that draws from a broad and comprehensive global experience in tyre usage.
- Powerful tools to capture and analyse critical operational data.
Michelin Productivity Solutions utilises the following tools to provide customised advice, to implement recommendations and actions to deliver on safety, productivity and efficiency objectives, eg:
- V Box – A GPS measurement tool that captures cycles, cycle mapping, speed, and distance.
- D Box – A Michelin measurement tool, using GPS and accelerometers, to capture cycles, cycle mapping, speed, distance, strut pressures and other dynamic characteristics of vehicles and an operation.
- Weight studies – The use of adapted scales to get real load distribution by vehicle position, by tyre.
- TKPH + – A Michelin reporting tool, capturing real TKPH realised for each tyre, based on Fleet Management System data.
In summary, Michelin’s Quarry Productivity Solutions can help producers achieve their operational objectives of safety, reduced tyre-related costs and downtime, increased productivity and efficiency, and optimised results for today – and beyond.
For more information, email michelin.earthmover@michelin.com or visit michelinearthmover.com
Source: Michelin Quarry Productivity Solutions