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Our Products Service and Support

As added-value to the four areas of product expertise that our divisions offer, we have specialized support services also organized by division. The following are services available to our customers that are administered by highly trained and specialized staff including:

Service and Support
  • "Certified Bearing Specialists" by the Bearing Specialists Association

  • MSHA/OSHA certified Millwrights, welders, electricians and machinists whose capabilities include plant maintenance, equipment installation and repair

  • Electrical Engineers with capabilities including designing, programming and troubleshooting electrical drive systems and control panels who can handle projects from a simple enclosed motor starter or disconnect to a complete PLC/Network Control System

  • Specialists in conveyor systems whose capabilities include designing, fabricating, and installing belt conveyors, roller bed conveyors, screw conveyors and bucket elevators

  • Certified specialists in fluid power design, fabrication and installation who are capable of designing and troubleshooting hydraulic and pneumatic systems

  • B&D Field Service Crews travel the southeast performing various maintenance tasks on the job site. All members are experienced Millwrights, MSHA/OSHA certified, and are available 24/7, 365 days a year.

B&D Division

Support Services Available

Bearings and Drives Preventative Maintenance
Fluid Power Services
Technical Training
Electrical Services
Conveyor Systems
Scale Systems Calibration Services
Repair: Depot and On-Site
ISO 9001/17025 Quality Assurance
Preventive Maintenance Contracts
Fabrication Services
B&D Service Equipment Repair Services*
Specialized Plant Services
Safety and Equipment Training
Fabrication and Machine Shop Services*
  *See more details on gearbox rebuilds and field and fabrication services below
Simco Technologies PLC, HMI and Servo Programming and Training
Industrial Networks
LEAN Automation

Gear Reducer Rebuild

Factory-trained technicians are available 24/7 for gear reducer rebuilds and are dedicated to quality and service. Our techs are knowledgeable about all brands and stand ready to provide the service required to decrease your downtime.

To support our gear reducer rebuild program, we have an in-house machine shop and over 40,000 square feet of used gearboxes and parts. This offers our customers an economical and quick solution to minimize downtime.

B&D Service is an authorized IG Rebuild Center for Eurodrive gearboxes as well as an approved repair facility for SPX-Marley cooling tower gearboxes. Other brands we repair include:

  • Amarillo
  • Black Clawsen Services Solutions Reducer Repair
  • Browning
  • Chemineer
  • Cone Drive
  • D.O. James
  • David Brown
  • Dodge
  • Falk
  • Flender
  • Foot-Jones
  • Hansen
  • Horsburgh & Scott
  • Lightnin
  • Link-belt
  • Nuttall
  • Philadelphia
  • Santasalo
  • SEW Eurodrive
  • Sumitomo
  • Sutorbuilt
  • SPX-Marley
  • Westinghouse
  • Winsmith

In addition to gear reducers, we repair Vacuum Pumps, Hammer mills, Blowers, Screens and Trunnions.

Field Services

  • PM Inspections: agitators, bearings, couplings, fans, gear trains, pulpers, universal drive shafts
  • Gear train upgrades and replacement
  • Coupling changes
  • Bearing Changes: felt rolls, machine rolls, fans, agitators, vacuum pumps, gear drives, Yankee dryer bearings, dryer can bearings
  • Lazer/optical alignment
  • Equipment change outs: motors, gearboxes, agitators, pulpers, fans,chipper heads, clutches and brakes, positive displacement pumps, double suction pumps, vacuum pumps
  • Vibration analysis
  • Fan balancing
  • In-field machine work: portable lathes(journal squirrel), portable line boring

Fabrication Services

  • PM Inspections, trouble shooting and in-field repairs of your existing conveyors: belt conveyors, slat conveyors, screw conveyors, bucket elevators, live roller conveyor
  • Upgrade, refurbish or retro-fit existing conveyors to customer specifications
  • Fabricate specialty screws/standard screws
  • Fabricate: base plates, custom shafts, guards, slide gates, hoppers
  • Rebuild conveyor pulleys to include lagging
  • Rebuild machine drive shafts
  • Rebuild machine agitators
  • Fabricate new or rebuild fans: supply, recycle, exhaust, and combustion
  • Kiln work: trunnion repair, main drive upgrade and repair, bull gear and pinion replacement, optical profile
  • CAD services available

We have mechnical engineers on staff. All gear shop, field and fabrication service employees are MSHA/OSHA certified.


SOLUTIONS

There are many instances where a customer has a need for a proprietary solution to a problem which requires the coordination of expertise across more than one B&D Industrial division. For example, a preventative maintenance call can turn up a need for an entirely new approach to production. Our partnership with our clients goes beyond the responsive - we are often involved in the strategic planning phase in a consultative role, lending ideas for better methods and turnkey system solutions to achieve improvements in productivity and ROI. A few examples of B&D Industrial's company-broad solutions include:Fabrication Services Solutions
  • System Conceptual Design
  • Network Design
  • Fluid Power Solutions
  • Engineered Gearbox Retrofits
  • Plant Automation
  • Vision Systems
  • HMI/SCADA Solutions
  • Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) Engineering
  • Custom PC Software Solutions
  • Automated Data Collection & Control
  • SQC/SPC System Solutions
  • ScalTrak Software Solutions
  • Custom Control Enclosures
  • CAD Drawings and Technical Documentation
  • System Start Up and Commissioning Services
  • Operator & Maintenance Training
  • Comprehensive Project Management

As an independent system integrator, we provide professionally managed, best-of-breed solutions designed to achieve client business goals with rapid return on investment. Our experienced engineers deliver quantifiable value, assisting our customers in making better real-time business decisions.

BD Internationally


B&D INTERNATIONALLY

Our goal is to partner with our global clients to facilitate the specification and exporting of MRO products, integrated systems, and repair projects. Everyone who answers our phones speaks English, Spanish and/or Portuguese. Feel comfortable contacting us in your native language.

Product specialists and engineers on staff to assist with trouble-shooting, systems design, product specifications, and education. Training seminars and workshops offered at your international location.

We will go out of our way to help you find the products you need to keep your plant running, even if it is not on our line card. B&D Service has over 350 used and reconditioned gear reducers in stock, and available with warranties.

Freight is consolidated in our warehouse and packed for export and can be shipped FCA local airport or direct to your door. Count on us in a breakdown situation - we can get parts to you within 24 hours, sometimes sooner.

Our system can automatically generate all types of export documents for your shipments, at no additional charge to you.

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