Joy Mining Machinery will soon be able to offer a small 'family' of cables which will reduce the number of cables globally produced and warehoused for Joy equipment from 200 to 20. This represented a 900% improvement the company said, which would reducing the inventory carried by customers.
The company said the many different regulations within countries using Joy equipment, meant customers had to warehouse many different styles and types of cables to meet these varying standards.
"In the near future, this will be a thing of the past due to the development of a 'global design' family of cables that will satisfy the standards and regulations of the various approval agencies in the global marketplace."
The 20 new cables represent the anticipated requirements for power and control wiring applications for all Joy machinery manufactured in any country.
The Mine Safety and Health Administration in the United States recently approved cables from 1.5 mm2 to 95mm2, and three through twenty-four conductor. Testing of samples is currently underway in the UK, Australia and South Africa.
