job, confirm parts and tooling, and understand the developing fault before work begins. Remote monitoring can also reduce routine inspections of hard-to-reach or hazardous assets.
The copper-mine retrofit is a practical example: repeated sleeve replacements had required a full mechanical crew working across two shifts with a 100- tonne crane. Designing the sealing arrangement to align with the annual overhaul reduces additional intrusive work. Reliability is therefore not separate from safety; it is a direct way to reduce exposure.
As the vendor model shifts from transactional sales to long-term lifecycle support, how is John Crane structuring its application engineering and local service to partner with mine sites? Mining customers need both specialist knowledge and support close to the operation. We therefore combine global application expertise with local engineers, technicians and service capabilities. The global team can bring experience from comparable slurry, dewatering, tailings and mineralprocessing applications, while the
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