IN FOCUS / ALTRA MOTION
KEEPING INTEGRAL COMPONENTRY IN MOTION Altra Motion is a global leader in designing, engineering, and manufacturing quality couplings, clutches, and brakes. Service and support are key focuses for ensuring Altra Motion brands continue to perform at optimum levels in critical industry sectors including mining, energy, marine, defence, food processing, steel, material handling, packaging, shipping and ports, and the crane and hoist. ALTRA MOTION AUSTRALIA REPRESENTS 28 major brands including Svendborg Brakes, Formsprag Clutch, Industrial Clutch, Marland Clutch, Wichita Clutch, Guardian, Bibby Turboflex, Stromag Brakes and Lamiflex couplings. The local subsidiary is committed to providing expert support and service for their broad range of products. “Providing the Australian market with world-class products and supporting these with service expertise for the life of the product are the focuses for the
business. Our products are often integral components in critical infrastructure, and so an increasingly important element of our offering is the professional service our technicians extend to our customer’s needs,” says Rex Sinclair, Altra Motion Australia national sales manager. “Altra Motion is a manufacturer of couplings, clutches and brakes and an essential element of our offering is to be a Service Partner. We offer genuine OEM Spare parts and maintenance. Our team of Service Technicians are constantly
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onsite to complete commissioning work, service products or troubleshoot with the latest test equipment,” he said. Due to the important roles Altra Motion products play, predictive maintenance and service plans are critical. Technicians inspect at designated and regular intervals which can mean an inspection every three months and a service every six. Because couplings, brake and clutches are components within a piece of overall equipment or critical infrastructure, every application is different. Altra Motion works with the customer to provide the correct support, maintenance, and servicing levels and meet their specific requirements. Altra Motion Service Technicians are factory trained, driving purposedesigned service vehicles with the equipment required to conduct servicing and maintenance programs quickly and efficiently. In addition, Atra Motion has several workshop facilities around the country, providing the ability to entirely overhaul equipment and bring the product back to a brand-new condition and factory specification. The has been some concern about the economic conditions caused by the COVD Pandemic and with this uncertainty comes a reluctance to release funds for capital expenditure. When capital expenditure is curtailed, budgets focus on maintaining and extracting the maximum performance from existing equipment, says Sinclair. “Take a mine site as an example. We www.cranesandlifting.com.au
