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Pirtek to keep track of all of the machinery that it has worked on before. Pirtek knows its own very high standard of workmanship and is confident with the machinery involved. Taking this to another level, Pirtek offers a service called Total Hose Management. This involves a longer-term contract to manage all the hydraulic hoses on a customer’s kit, marking them up and identifying them on a database, which makes it possible to schedule maintenance and replacement. A preventative maintenance scheme such as this reduces downtime and the consequent expense of machinery being out of use, as well as the dangers – to people, plant and the environment – of catastrophic failure. As London continues to upgrade its infrastructure Pirtek will be there to maintain the heavy plant and vehicles that keep the capital moving.
One such machine is a demolition grapple used to shift household and other waste into containers that transport it down the river. When a hose on one of the grapples on site failed, Pirtek was called upon to fix it. This was no simple job. At the time of failure, the claw was closed, making it difficult to access the joints where the hoses were to be attached. Not only this, but the waste handler was filthy with layer upon layer of household and trade waste, making it quite an unpleasant task. Working in a confined space makes it hard to manipulate hoses into place, however with much effort Pirtek’s MSST was able to bend it into position and attach the hose to its housing. Digging the Northern Line tunnels nearby are tunnel boring machines Helen and Amy, like Tideway’s diggers named after pioneering women in British public life. Helen is named after the country’s first astronaut, Dr Helen Sharman and Amy’s name refers to Amy Johnson, the
pioneering aviator who flew from the UK to Australia. Pirtek works regularly on these machines too. One of the advantages of ongoing maintenance contracts is that it allows
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