Capital Equipment News January-February 2024

PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE

OEM parts offer significantly greater value in machine performance and long-term cost effectiveness.

Why OEM parts pave the way to lower costs

Even when operating high-value, complex machinery in the mining and construction sectors, many equipment owners are still tempted to use spares from the aftermarket sector – rather than from the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM). Pilot Crushtec’s Jorge Abelho explains some technicalities about why OEM parts are vital to ensuring the lowest total cost of ownership. W hen is a spare part, not just a spare part? The an swer, says Pilot Crushtec Director Technical Support Jorge Abelho, is when it is designed and manufactured with the machine’s whole system in mind. Abelho spoke to Capital Equipment News and explained that Pilot Crushtec customers use the company’s equipment to

“The OEM must not only consider this kind of intricacy in the design and manufacture of its parts but also ensure that all the parts a customer needs are available.”

Jorge Abelho, Director of Technical Support at Pilot Crushtec

TALKING POINT

“We see increasingly how our customers are calculating the cost of their spares expenditure and are able to satisfy themselves of the value of OEM spares.”

Jacques Erasmus, Aftermarket Sales Engineer at Pilot Crushtec

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