To help customers get the best from their tyres, including maximising tyre life, Bridgestone Earthmover Tyres offers site-specific tyre management services.
With increasing raw materials prices, and the current global tyre shortage, applying the latest tyre management principles offers a number of advantages, including:
- Longer tyre life
- Reduced tyre costs during the life of equipment
- Reduced machine downtime due to non-availability of tyres.
Our specialist tyre management teams can visit your mine site, quarry or construction project and assist in developing a tyre management program suited to your application.
Elements of a tyre management program include:
- Reducing cut damage, through measures such as ensuring clear surfaces in loading and dump areas, minimising spillage on haul roads and avoiding operating in wet conditions
- Repairing cut-damaged tyres, including ensuring timely removal of damaged tyres before they are too far gone for viable repairs
- Operating tyres within their capabilities, through such measures as operating within the TKPH rating, carefully matching tyre load and speed capacity and ensuring tyre pressures are maintained at recommended levels.
These programs also include steps to further increase the potential life of tyres, through:
- Improving operating surfaces
- Better road design
- Imposing speed limits according to conditions
- Optimising tyre selection
- Additional operator training, with a view to increasing their awareness of tyre management issues.
To implement a tyre management program at your site, please contact Bridgestone Earthmover Tyres on phone (02) 9722 6111, email
training@bsem.com.au.
