In today's business environment, downtime for a major piece of capital equipment in a production environment can be anywhere from expensive to catastrophic. From his first day as a young design engineer at Gundlach Equipment Corp., the author learned that when a crusher goes down, whether for routine maintenance or in an emergency, time is crucial. It is during times like this, for example, when you are faced with changing a damaged crusher roll in the middle of the night, that you realise how important maintainability is to your core business. At this point, you know that the ability to return a machine to reliable operation in the shortest amount of time should be a make or break decision for anyone considering the purchase of a new crusher.
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