Advanced Tire Management

Tire Performance Tracking and Rigorous Testing for Optimal Efficiency and Cost Reduction Strategies

New technologies and tires are being developed daily. Fountain Tire Mine Service takes great pride in ensuring that we track the tire performance on your equipment, to the hour, to determine how each tire performs in each application. We test different tires to find the best tire to use in each application to maximize the number of hours in operation to reduce downtime and lower overall operating costs.

Our Investment Into Performance

A great deal of time and expense goes into ensuring that our customers get the lowest cost per hour possible out of their tires. This Includes the following:

• Wages, flights, accommodations, ground transportation, and meals for associates travelling to site to perform studies and tracking, review scrap tire piles, as well as all other Value-Added items.
• Wages for engineering team to review and write reports, make recommendations on tires, and future testing.
• Wages, flights, accommodations, ground transportation, and meals for associates travelling to attend committee meetings.

Seasonal & Cross Fitment testing

• Seasonal Fitments: As seasons and ambient temperatures are a major contributing factor, testing evaluation tires vs. control tires must be fitted very close together and evaluated by batches.
• Cross Fitments: With use of control tires, evaluations are simplified.

Onsite Tire Repairs

Fountain Tire Mine Service offers our clients the option of having their large OTR tire section repairs at our repair plants or on-site (where shop facilities exist). Fountain Tire developed this unique service and is the only company to offer it. The on-site section and spot repairs work is performed within the on-site service building. The economic advantages of on-site tire section repairs far outweigh shipping large tires to offsite repair shops, freight, excessive inventory, and tire down time. These are the main factors eliminated by having the repairs done at site. Fountain Tire offers our clients both conventional nylon reinforced section and spot repair service.

Weight Studies

Yearly weight studies offer valuable information on the entire fleet for our customers, while also satisfying the legal requirements according to the Mine Services Act. We will supply the scales, supervise the study, record all information and report on our findings.