“Mackay is one of Australia’s mining hubs and adding pump repair to our existing Mackay facility broadens our service offering not only for our existing customers, but for opportunities to gain new customers and some extra market share in a very competitive and mature environment,” says Lance, who is Motion’s National Manager for Mechanical Seals & Pumps. “We will be offering a much wider range of combined services than other providers, recognising the evolving needs of our customers.”
According to Lance, this investment shows customers that Motion is committed to helping increase their plant uptime.
“In my opinion, we’re leading from the front, because we’re recognising these needs and can cater to them,” he says. “Our offering in terms of services, expertise, parts and other industrial products is unrivalled.”
Whilst the Motion Mackay facility has acted as a one-stop shop for drilling rig undercarriage repairs and assembly, rotary drill head refurbs, along with screw compressor refurbs and supply, the service has been greatly extended by adding a pump repair workshop that offers various machining, cleaning and testing services. Additionally, there is a dedicated mechanical seal repair facility proposed at the same site.
“In particular, I’d like to highlight our added capability to do more personalised onsite services and troubleshooting – which means we can ensure our customers are matched with the correct engineering solutions to improve their uptime – a key driver for our clients in the mining segment,” says Lance. “We’re truly a one-stop hub where we have a secure supply of parts to repair equipment, but also the in-house expertise to offer a wide array of engineering solutions to provide an end-to-end service. We can reverse engineer, build, assemble, install, monitor and help maintain.” There are three main service lines at the Motion Mackay facility now – general engineering, specialised drilling repair service workshop, a pump repair workshop and a proposed mechanical seals workshop. Whilst under the one Motion umbrella facility, customers get the benefits that come through from the specialised Motion businesses: CRAM Fluid Power, AIP, and Sealing Solutions whose collective experience surpasses hundreds of years. General workshop services With a team of four qualified machine fitters, the Motion workshop in Mackay for general repairs and maintenance offers a long list of services. These include: drilling rig undercarriage repairs and assembly, rotary drill head refurbs along with screw compressor refurbs and supply.
Additionally, they provide:
• Ultrasonic cleaning (chemical bath)
• Hydrostatic pressure testing of pumps
• Milling machine
• Lathes x 2
• Hydraulic presses
• MR Truck with 2.5 tonne capacity crane
• 50 (2x25) Tonne overhead workshop crane with scale
• Machining facilities
• Forklifts
• Wash bay
• Grit blasting and priming
• CAD drawings of parts that we manufacture in house
• Turbowash
• Paint booth (4 metres)
Pump repair
The pump repair workshop can also facilitate new pump sales as well as offer refurbishment, repairs, new pump assembly and complete builds.
Full services include:
• Pump repairs and refurbishments
• New pump supply
• New pump assembly and complete builds
• Pump parts supply
• Pump on-site installations and removal
• Pump base fabrication and supply
• Pressure testing
• Submersible pumps
• Special coating
• Special application
• Laser alignment
• Steam turbine repairs
• On-site monitoring
• Troubleshooting
• Reliability improvement
Mechanical Seal Repair
The proposed seal repair centre incorporates a large warehouse stocked with over 32,000 line items. Motion has recently increased its stock with additional brands now available for pumps and seals. Among many services, this facility will offer flatness testing, diamond lapping process, express repairs and a pressure test certificate. Its primary services include: • Mechanical seal repairs including lapping and polishing faces • Mechanical seal supply • Repairs to all seal styles • Spares and replacement • Pressure testing • On-site monitoring • Troubleshooting • Inhouse lapping centre • Reliability improvement
Additionally, this centre offers the following:
• Non-return valve supply, install and removal
• Electric motor repairs, supply, install and removal
• On-site bearing changes
• Mixer and agitator repairs or refurbishments
• Rotating mechanical equipment repairs
• Dragline disc brake calliper and thruster refurbishments
• Pneumatic panel assembly
• Ball mill clutch refurbishments
• Laser Alignments
• Transport frame fabrication
• General fabrication and fitting
• Coupling boring and keying To summarise on the recent additions in Mackay, Lance circles back to his earlier point about Motion’s commitment to move industry forward.
“With a customer-centric approach, Motion’s Mackay hub is focused on helping our customers reduce downtime, optimise their maintenance and in the process, manage to cut costs and reduce waste. We’re proud to be a partner to industry.”