Volvo Construction Equipment's versatile maintenance system

Volvo Construction Equipment is offering versatile mobile service stations for customers in remote sites with difficult access. The general manager of the Volvo CE dealer in China’s Guangxi Province had a special requirement, to help a major client with a rapidly growing fleet of Volvo CE machines. And this need led to the development of mobile service stations in modified sea freight containers. This system is now being used at the Guangxi Pingguo Aluminium Company, a major aluminium ore mining company.
June 21, 2016 Read time: 2 mins
The parts storage system has cut downtime for the producer
7659 Volvo Construction Equipment is offering versatile mobile service stations for customers in remote sites with difficult access. The general manager of the Volvo CE dealer in China’s Guangxi Province had a special requirement, to help a major client with a rapidly growing fleet of Volvo CE machines. And this need led to the development of mobile service stations in modified sea freight containers.

This system is now being used at the Guangxi Pingguo Aluminium Company, a major aluminium ore mining company.

Currently operating 64 Volvo articulated haulers, eight crawler excavators and eight wheeled loaders, GPAC is faced with the fleet maintenance challenge of ensuring machine availability in tough conditions, without losing productivity.

The producer approached dealer 5389 Guangxi Zhongnan Huaxing Machinery for a solution that reduced machine downtime. The result is the mobile service station, which is also a warehouse so that spare parts and lubricants can be stored on-site. This avoids the producer having to wait for the parts which were previously delivered from the Shanghai warehouse to Nanning City, the capital of Guangxi Province and then to its workshop, a process that took about a week.

Delays resulted in financial loss for the company. But with parts stored in the container near the job site, the mobile service station means Volvo Construction Equipment can provide a 24-hour on-site service and parts supply.

In addition to cutting ownership costs, the initiative is environmentally friendly and is easily installed at the start of a project, then removed upon completion. Proving popular with customers, the innovative yellow box is being rolled out across the country, in demand at remote mines and work sites to provide customers with full service and parts in the shortest possible time.

For more information on companies in this article

Related Content

  • Volvo CE machines in Indonesia quarry
    November 20, 2015
    The operation is now using one of the EC220DL excavator models, which has helped boost productivity by some 30%. In addition, the machine is said to be delivering savings in running costs at the Alam Jaya volcanic rock quarry, through reducing fuel consumption by two litres/hour. The site is located close to West Java’s capital city, Bandung, at the foot of the volcano, Tangkuban Perahu. The city is home to 2.5 million people and sits at 768m above sea level, while it benefits from one of Indonesia’s coo
    Read More
  • Volvo CE’s technology & innovation leadership
    March 9, 2017
    Volvo Construction Equipment president Martin Weissburg said the brand’s innovation and technological leadership in its sector comes from being part of the Volvo Group’s hugely successful and diverse global business portfolio. Examples of the Swedish construction equipment manufacturing giant’s ongoing investment in new technology include prototypes such as the LX1 electric hybrid wheeled loader; the HX1 battery-electric, fully autonomous load carrier; and the HX2, another battery-electric, fully autonomous
    Read More
  • Deciding whether to buy new or used equipment
    May 20, 2015
    Customers can face the choice of buying used or new equipment – Dan Gilkes writes. The decision to buy either new or used equipment is almost as old as the construction plant market itself. However some of the reasons for choosing between the two might well be changing, to meet new demands from customers across the world and to cope with a changing supply base. Ever more stringent emissions legislation in Europe, the US and Japan, rapidly developing emerging markets that want the productivity of the latest
    Read More
  • Volvo machines help construct new Norwegian tunnels
    January 12, 2015
    Close to Larvik in Norway’s Vestfold County and around 80km south of Drammen, two tunnels are currently under construction as part of a state-funded infrastructure development programme. The project, which began earlier this year, comprises 7km of four lane highway – part of the E18 major route – linking the towns of Bommestad and Sky. This includes the new Larvik and Matineå tunnels, which will span 2.8 and 1.3km respectively. Worth €187 million, this project was awarded to Skanska Norway, the second la
    Read More

Highlighted Content