MechChem Africa February 2019

⎪ Maintenance and asset management ⎪

and money

Above: Machinist fitting valve seat sleeves. Far left: Machinists preparing a cylinder head. Left: Cylinder head with valve seat sleeves fitted. remanufacturing diesel and gas engine components to meet the exacting original equipment manufacturer (OEM) standards,” concludes Yorke. Other items that the com- pany remanufactures include valve-train components,connectingrods,crankshaftsand cylinder blocks. q

maintenance schedule to optimise the performance and lifespan of these engines, while delivering lowest cost of ownership to theoperator and reliableenergy supply to the end-customer. “It is the skilled staff atMetricAutomotive Engineering who have been hard at work

designed to have certain major components replaced in thefield, so itmakes no sense tobe procuring these services from abroad where most of the original equipment comes from.” Lastly, Yorke highlights the vital impor- tanceof highqualityworkmanship inconjunc- tion with a disciplined and well-resourced

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