James Walker cost of ownership reduction initiative

Sealing and bolting specialist James Walker however is taking a different approach with many of its customers - using root cause analysis.

The vast majority of maintenance problems stem from incorrect installation, incorrect product specification or short-sighted cost-cutting. The James Walker service identifies the correct products and specifications that should be used and will also often include the training of maintenance teams, providing fitting instructions and operational schedules where necessary, to ensure the issue is resolved. In other cases the company may re-design or re-engineer a flange, housing or seal to eliminate the cause of the maintenance issue and provide instant savings in terms of lost production, wasted energy and unscheduled downtime.

The focus is on three key plant areas – Bolted joints and flanges; valves, and expansion joints. One of these is the subject of a presentation on Tuesday 11 March at 11.10 within The Business Exchange event at Maintec, where Adrian Jefferies, a Senior Project Engineer at James Walker, will illustrate the best practice in bolted joint assembly by using measurement of the installed bolt loads in his presentation entitled Gaskets don’t fail – bolted joint assemblies do.

James Walker will be exhibiting a comprehensive range of products and services at Maintec on stand M4F.