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Gearbox maintenance

How efficient gearbox maintenance works

The gearbox is a critical components in your powertrain that needs special attention. Read here what to consider when conducting maintenance measures.

Standard maintenance measures like supplying lubricant or checking a gearbox a leakages is often no problem for in-house staff. But there always comes a time when a gearbox needs a further inspection, checking of tooth contact pattern and the condition of roller bearings, or analysis of vibration behaviour. This leads to the question: who do I contact for such tasks?

Who can help with maintenance in what way?

The easiest solution might be to contact your manufacturer. They know the gearbox and have sufficient experience, spare parts availability should also be adequate. Experience shows that some manufacturer are not impartial when performing an inspection, are unflexible and often advise buying the components anew, even when repair would be a feasible solution.

Do you need help with your gearbox maintenance?

As an initial measure, our gearbox inspection service will thoroughly check the condition of your powertrain. Using comprehensive procedures and checklists ensures that all critical details are detected. The inspection results will be processed and summarized in a report that is easy to understand and contains detailed explanations in order to plan follow-up measures.

Maintenance of the gearbox

Our independent experts rely on many years of experience in maintaining different gearbox types, like helical gears, bevel gears, pinion stand gears or planetary gears. Our maintenance service and further measures are available for gears of different manufacturers. Depending on the size of the machine, maintenance can be performed on-site or in the facilities of the provider. Transparency and reliability is ensured by listing components and their respective conditions in detail. Subsequent repairs and exchange of spare parts are carried out in consultation with the customer.

If necessary, additional measures like torque measurements or vibration analyses can be carried out.

What’s part of gearbox maintenance?

Due to the closed construction of gearboxes, condition monitoring during maintenance poses a challenge. Often, additional measures like inspection, endoscopy and other are necessary to detect wear and start preventative measures. This is the best way to prevent serious damage and unplanned shutdowns.

Maintenance instead of replacement

The benefits of hiring an external service partner are clear: their assessment of your machines is neutral and without bias, also they are particularly interested in repairing your gearbox and offering a more cost-efficient solution than buying a new one. Especially those service partners who specialize in gearbox repairs will use original spare parts and keep your gearbox in original condition. There’s another benefit to repairing: if you opt for repair, your gearbox will be available again much faster than a new purchase, which means production can resume earlier, too. By looking at the powertrain in its entirety, other issues outside of the gearbox can be detected and technical solutions to optimize neighbouring powertrain components can be found. It definitely pays off to hire an external service partner and where applicable, also task them with the maintenance measure.

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