Manufacturing

Manufacturing Engineering and Mechanical Failure Services

The global manufacturing industry is vast - covering everything from industrial processes like steel manufacturing to the creation of everyday household consumables. To create these things, manufacturers use a dizzying array of equipment, machinery, and plant. 

This machinery often operates continuously for long periods of time, consuming considerable amounts of energy (the IEA estimates that manufacturing accounts for 37% of global energy use). 

As a result, manufacturing machinery can be subject to the types of failures that are closely related to unaddressed friction and wear. 

That’s a rather long-winded way of saying that if you’re operating a manufacturing business, you could benefit significantly from applying engineering and tribological best practices to your machinery maintenance schedules. 

Or, if you find yourself dealing with a costly and complex machinery failure, it can pay (literally) to hire the best engineering and mechanical failure experts to establish the root cause - and liability - of a failure. 

If you want to unleash the benefits of engineering best practice for your manufacturing business, speak to Neale Consulting Engineers today. 

Manufacturing engineering and mechanical failure investigations

If you’re looking for an expert to help you investigate a plant or machinery failure, then it’s vital that you select one with manufacturing-specific experience. Below, you’ll find some examples of how Neale Consulting Engineers has helped manufacturing companies. 

Development assistance to a textile machine manufacturer

A manufacturer of textile machinery discovered that the design of one of their machines was resulting in reciprocating components operating at close to their fundamental limits. Naturally, you would expect this to result in component failure over time. 

To avert this scenario from coming to pass, Neale Consulting Engineers was commissioned to undertake a redesign project. 

The result was a new design that successfully reduced reciprocating forces and increased load capacity; this allowed the machine to enjoy an increased speed capacity - thus improving overall manufacturing throughput. 

Cement mill main drive gearbox failure

When the gearbox bearings in a cement mill failed - not long after being replaced - Neale Consulting Engineers was commissioned to investigate and propose a solution. 

The solution arrived at focused on the proper running in of new bearings, using supplementary oil cooling and extra fine oil filtration. This proved to be successful. 

Gearbox failure investigation at an iron ore polishing plant

Iron ore polishing is a task that can take its toll on machinery, meaning it is essential that machines and their respective components are properly specified. 

Yet, one iron ore polishing plant was experiencing multiple gearbox failures. Neale Consulting Engineers investigated. 

It was discovered - through intensive, forensic investigation of the issue - that the gearboxes had failed due to them being undersized for the duty to which they were assigned. 

The typical solution would be to fit the machinery with appropriately sized gearboxes; however, this wasn’t possible due to limited space within the machine configuration. As an alternative solution, Neale Consulting Engineers recommended improvements to lubrication, and changes to internal gear alignment procedures. This ensured that a major redesign of the machinery was not required. 

Engineering and mechanical failure services for manufacturing

Use applied engineering expertise to unlock significant benefits for your manufacturing business with Neale Consulting Engineers. 

Our manufacturing-specific experience makes us the perfect partner for both proactive and reactive engineering and mechanical failure investigations. 

Neale Consulting Engineers has a broad talent pool to draw upon. In addition to our origins in tribology, we have expert metallurgists, materials scientists, engineers, and others to assist in our investigations.