How We Replaced a Totally Failed Gearbox in Just Three Days

How We Replaced a Totally Failed Gearbox in Just Three Days

The call came in unexpectedly to our sales rep. A crucial Lightnin 780 mixer gearbox was in total failure and had shut down a line at a nearby specialty polymers plant. Knowing the cost of lost production time but not the extent of the damage in the failed unit, the customer‘s reliability engineer needed the repair completed in three days.

Of course, we said yes. Then what happened?