Hydratorque Drill Support News

Personalised Drill Support

Our drill support program aims to provide our drilling partners with an elite service solution specifically tailored to suit their machines & individual site requirements. These solutions are available for all major brands of drilling equipment including Cat, Terex, Bucyrus, Reedrill, Atlas Copco & Sandvik.

Services provided are outlined here, however should you have a requirement that is not listed, please do not hesitate to contact our support team to discuss.

Machine Diagnostics, Fault Trouble Shooting & Failure Anaysis

• Hydraulic, pneumatic, mechanical & electric systems: high level diagnostics & testing
• Unmatched understanding of Reedrill / Terex / Bucyrus / Cat Rotary (Rotary & DHH) & top Hammer machines, Cubex machines, including newly released CANBUS based automation ready systems, & the Australian built Vigilante PLC systems.
• Exposure to many other types of drilling equipment

Hydraulic

• Component supplyservice 02 piston repair
• Filtration audit & analysis
• Repair / Rebuild of components
• Systems analysis & troubleshooting
• Testing: workshop or onsite
• Service exchange of popular units

Machine Auditing & Assessment

• Partnering with production, maintenance & planning personnel. Building a full understanding of site requirements.
• Detailed Machine auditing
  • In preparation for service and/or shut down – assisting / partnering with site planning team to ensure maximumefficiency of any service planning.
  • Fault and defect identification
  • Failure analysis
  • Maximization of component life and maximized machine availability
  • Operational effectiveness – machine and consumables
  • Bit life, penetration, machine wear and consumable life
  • Compressor performance
  • Weight on bit
  • Consumable size and configuration
  • Machine utilization auditing
• Working with suppliers to optimize balance between consumable life and performance aligned with capabilities of machine and customer production targets.

Service & Major Overhaul Planning & Implementation

• Based on in-depth audit of machine; services, overhauls and component rebuilds can be planned in detail.
• Partnering with service teams to ensure accurate plan & parts requirements are detailed for all requisite tasks:
  • Shut down projects
  • Project planning, project management
  • Sourcing of parts & Resources
  • Completed shut down re-commissioning, Hydraulic, Pneumatic, Electrical & Mechanical systems
  • Machine modification – Safety, productivity or other specific site requirements
  • Design and planning of Modification
  • Documentation to complete change of management for any modification
  • Modifications carried out
• Re-commissioning equipment after service

Risk Assessments Including Control Design, Implementation & Documentation

• Risk assessment of new and existing fleet, including new modifications or changes to suit safety or production. Assessed against requirements tailored to meet customers specific standards and application.
• Controls for risks designed and implemented, including documentation to ensure continued support of any physical changes.
• Review of new capital specifications and supplier conformance
• Assistance with development of Safe Work Method Statements & work rocedures in accordance with site requirements

Parts Sourcing & Component Supply

• Quality components for your drill
• Hydratorque product improvements and kits
• Finding alternative parts for items that are no longer available, subject to long lead times, or are extremely overpriced.