Si-Tec® Ceramic Feed Disk Increases Shoe Wear Life by 41%

Cemco 70
337-7143HS Feed Disk
337-7115HS Ceramic Shoe

Baseline:

• 5 Shoe table using 337-7115HS Ceramic shoes
• 130 Tons per hour using a closed circuit (recirculating load)
• Average Feed Disk wear life of 53 hours from brand X using standard high chrome

Objective:

• Increase wear life of feed disk
• Improve wear pattern of shoes through Si-Tec® Feed Disk 337-7143HS
• Lower maintainance costs with fewer change outs

Results:

• Increased feed disk wear life from 53 hours to 71.8 hours over brand X standard chrome (35% improvement)
• Si-Tec® Feed Disk provided additional 18.8 hours wear life compared to Brand X
• Additional 2,444 tons of product produced with no change outs

Value Delivered:

• Increased ceramic shoe wear life from 27.5 hours to 38.8 hours using Si-Tec® ceramic feed disk (41% improvement)
• Additional 11.3 hours run time on shoes
• Additional 1,469 tons of product produced with one less set of shoes