DOI: 10.30686/1609-9192-2018-4-140-72-78

While resources in other mining countries, such as Canada and South Africa, are entering the later stages of their exploitation, Peru is just getting started and upgrading strategies taken to support the growth of the mining equipment sector today, can help to generate benefits for the country in the future. Upgrading in the mining equipment sector can help Peru to increase the benefits derived from its natural resources, improving mining operation efficiency. To date, Peru has demonstrated success in two key areas – underground mining and mineral processing as a result of its particular geological conditions. Peruvian companies thus need to explore opportunities to leverage the skills developed to date in the mining equipment sector to enter into the agricultural, fishery and potentially, oil and gas sectors

The article discusses a very important issue for grinding processes of mineral processing and construction enterprises – minimization of drum mills downtime in case of relining. Relining is a labour and cost intensive, as well as unsafe job. Today, all production companies aim at the minimization of costs, greater efficiency and higher equipment utilization factor. The solution proposed by the author met a keen interest in many companies. Customized solutions have been presented, 3D modeling of machinery configuration has been performed: articulated crane + articulated crane, and manipulator + articulated crane, modular articulated crane + rope crane + articulated crane mini, which descriptions can be found in the previous issues of the GP Journal. Flexibility of relining systems allows minimization of wear plates replacement time and improvement of personnel safety in specified conditions of a particular company in confined service area of mills.