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.

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