{"id":1205324,"date":"2020-04-09T06:00:51","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T06:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.h-eparts.com\/?post_type=white-papers&#038;p=1205324"},"modified":"2020-04-09T20:02:26","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T20:02:26","slug":"birrana-enhancements-prolong-life-on-komatsu-930e-wheel-groups","status":"publish","type":"white-papers","link":"https:\/\/www.h-eparts.com\/es\/white-papers\/birrana-enhancements-prolong-life-on-komatsu-930e-wheel-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Birrana\u2122 enhancements prolong life on KOMATSU 930e wheel groups"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Compa\u00f1\u00eda Minera Antamina South America (Antamina) is one of the largest open pit copper mines in the world. Located in the Huari Province of Peru 4,800 meters (15,700 feet) above sea level, the mine also has world class zinc reserves and produces silver, lead, and molybdenum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>H-E Parts approached Antamina and offered to assist in improving major component life and equipment cost of ownership. Antamina was experiencing insufficient brake life on P&amp;H 4100 rope shovels and H-E Parts was able to solve this with tailored brake discs and plates. Following this success, Antamina agreed to trial H-E Parts Birrana\u2122 enhanced wheel groups on Komatsu 930E trucks. At the time, Antamina\u2019s 930E front wheel corners were achieving ~16,000 hours. In an effort to increase the life and performance of the equipment and lower the total cost of ownership, H-E Parts re-manufactured the wheel groups to incorporate proprietary Birrana\u2122 enhancements, such as:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Birrana\u2122 control fit wheel bearing systems, including flexible spacers, hardened spacers, custom bearing design and specifications, and preload adjustments<\/li><li>Birrana\u2122 contamination controls, including isolation seals, contamination guards, and contamination kits&nbsp;<\/li><li>Birrana\u2122 brake wear gauges allowing easy and fast brake wear measurement, reduced downtime, and improved safety<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Through Birrana\u2122 improvements, personalized advice and expertise, and post-rebuild equipment monitoring, Antamina\u2019s 930E front wheel groups are now running with over 24,000 hours on them.&nbsp; This has led to more than 80 wheel groups rebuilds at Antamina. H-E Parts\u2019 ability to stock more components for replacement programs, allowing reduced repair lead times, as well as flexible approaches to repair costs were highly valuable to Antamina.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dgioomm9x0li.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/anatmina.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1205326\" width=\"297\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.h-eparts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/anatmina.jpg 348w, https:\/\/www.h-eparts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/anatmina-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Compa\u00f1\u00eda Minera Antamina South America (Antamina) is one of the largest open pit copper mines in the world. Located in [&hellip;]","protected":false},"featured_media":1205326,"template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-1205324","white-papers","type-white-papers","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.h-eparts.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/white-papers\/1205324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.h-eparts.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/white-papers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.h-eparts.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/white-papers"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.h-eparts.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1205326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.h-eparts.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.h-eparts.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}