The challenges of designing gearboxes for the mining industry
Mining across the globe takes many forms but one factor is common to all of them, the need for robust and reliable machinery. From open-cast coal mining in USA to underground gold mining in Australia, there is an on-going quest to find and extract all the minerals available to fulfil growing demand. Mining, in all its forms, requires the equipment to be designed and built to withstand the harsh mining environment, while the mining business requires efficient and reliable machinery to perform with a minimum return on investment.
