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All student participants were compensated for this project and additional scholarship funding will be awarded for those involved in the display that receives the most votes during the MinExpo.
Optimum Crush is committed to creating strong partnerships with mines across the globe. Come visit us at the MinExpo 2024 in Las Vegas. Our team will be there to meet with your team and talk through challenges you face with your crushers. Let’s meet so we can work with you to optimize your mine.
We will be in the WEST HALL at Booth #13479
2024 MinExpo Booth
This year’s booth theme is all about our community. Earlier this year we reached a major milestone in our Community Optimization Program, surpassing $1,000,000 in total donations. Each year since 2013, we have helped support the communities around our customer’s mines by donating to local sports teams, creating scholarships, and sponsoring playgrounds and other activity-based facilities.
To help tell that story, we partnered with a local art college, MIAD (Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design), to have students build art interpretations of some of our top-selling parts.
Not only did this project provide invaluable experience to this group of students, it also allowed them to receive scholarship money to help pay for school.
We selected 3 parts for the students to recreate and met with them to explain what Optimum Crush does, what role each part plays in the Cone Crusher machine, and how the crusher machines help mines around the world.
From there, the students created concepts and presented them back to us. We talked through the design ideas and finalized them, and then the students took them from idea to reality. Here is a breakdown of each part they recreated…
Cone Crusher Head
What we presented to students:
The head is forged in steel and is responsible for the actual crushing action. This part is subject to significant wear due to the constant contact with abrasive material. The key to longevity of this part is the forged material used to create it.
What they came up with:
A “to-scale” head made with wood frame and covered in a painted cloth. Inside the head is a bright light to help make the piece glow to give it a forged look. The painted design on the cloth represents the hard work of the part while also telling the story of being forged. The light has an easy plug for light accessibility. The piece was designed to be light weight and was designed on a stand to be easily moved by a forklift.
Eccentric
What we presented to students:
The Eccentric is the “heart” of the machine and drives the unique crushing action of the machine that is necessary for crushing material between the head (Mantle) and Bowl Liner. Similar to the heart of a human body, the Eccentric helps to power the the entire crushing process.
What they came up with:
A “to-scale” Eccentric made with a translucent material to allow for a bright representation of a heart. Inside the display is a 3D printed heart that pulses to truly make the connection of the importance of this part. The light has an easy plug for light accessibility and overall the piece was designed to be light weight. It was designed on a stand to be easily moved by a forklift.
Bowl Liner
What we presented to students:
The Bowl Liner works in tandem with the head to crush rocks in the cone crusher. Each Bowl Liner tells a unique story based on the wear created by crushing rocks. The “story” is the amount of wear and breakdown of material based on the size, frequency, and type of material that runs through it.
What they came up with:
A “to-scale” Bowl Liner that is sliced in half with a large book placed into it. Each side of the Bowl Liner represents something different. On the left (facing) side, the bowl liner is new (Beginning of book). On the right (facing) side the Bowl liner is worn and shows damage and imperfections as it has been in heavy use.
The piece was designed using a wood frame, covered with small precut metal pieces, and then fastened to a stand to be easily moved by a forklift.
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The analysis process involves looking at the current design of your crusher and we focus on the parts with the goal being to increase the liner life. We will examine the castings in new and worn condition and make recommendations on how to increase the life of the parts based on how they wear and sync up. We will use laser scanners to measure parts/equipment, analyze the new and worn liner profiles, identify inefficiencies and then develop and optimize the design to reach project goals.
Our recommendations will be based on the goals to increase liner life, decrease plant shutdowns, increase annual production, decrease operational costs, and reduce annual material costs. This will come with 2D image profiles (sketch) with recommended changes as well as a cost/value analysis and proposal to execute the recommendations.
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