Every Aussie Buckets attachment is designed, cut, welded, line-bored and tested across our global factory network, then checked again in Australia before it ships to your site.
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From initial design to final delivery, every Aussie Buckets attachment goes through our rigorous 15-step manufacturing process.
The design and engineering phase involves finalizing detailed plans and CAD designs for excavator attachments based on customer orders, either from the standard range or custom requests. This ensures the attachment meets performance, safety, and compatibility requirements, including specific pin sizes and customer specifications, to prepare for manufacturing.
Based on the customer's order, machine class, site conditions, and customization requests, Aussie Bucket selects the most suitable steel grades to maximize value and performance. A vast range of steel grades is stocked, from mild steel to Bisalloy, Hardox, Hardox Tuf, and Hardox Strenx, ensuring optimal durability and functionality.
This stage involves programming laser decks to transform CAD designs into precisely cut steel components. The process focuses on efficiently cutting all required parts, followed by deburring, cleaning, and labelling to ensure quality and streamlined manufacturing part management.
The bevelling phase prepares steel edges by creating precise angled cuts for cutting edges and other components in excavator attachments, improving penetration, reducing wear, and enhancing overall working operation. This process is conducted using advanced 5-axis bevelling robots, or large machinery, which allow for complex angles and contours on plates or sections, ensuring high accuracy and efficiency in steel fabrication.
The steel bending phase involves bending, folding, or primarily rolling steel to create curved sections for attachments such as buckets and grabs, ensuring precise shapes that meet design specifications for functionality and strength.
The assembly phase involves mechanically arranging and temporarily joining cut steel components to form the basic structure of the excavator attachment, excluding hydraulics or electronics. Components are placed in a jig, tacked together, and checked for squareness and correct distances to ensure precise alignment before primary welding.
The welding phase permanently joins the tacked steel components of the excavator attachment using primarily robot welding machines, with final pieces welded by hand, to create a robust and durable structure capable of withstanding heavy excavator use. Robot welding ensures higher quality welds and larger single beads for enhanced strength.
The inspection phase uses Penetrant Testing (PT) and Ultrasonic Testing (UT) to ensure the quality of welds and components in the excavator attachment, identifying surface and internal imperfections without damaging the structure. PT applies a penetrant to reveal surface cracks, while UT uses ultrasonic waves to detect internal flaws, ensuring the attachment meets strict quality and safety standards.
The boring phase involves machining precise holes in the welded excavator attachment to accommodate pins, pivot joints, and hydraulic components, correcting micro-movements caused by welding. Line boring ensures a 100% perfect fit for smooth, long-term operation, reducing stress on pins and enhancing attachment durability.
The blasting phase cleans the excavator attachment's surface using articulating recycled sand blasting machines, an environmentally friendly method, to remove contaminants, weld spatter, grease, and oil. This ensures a perfectly clean surface, free of imperfections, for optimal painting preparation and enhanced durability.
The painting phase applies protective coatings to the excavator attachment, using filler putty to address steel imperfections from manufacturing, ensuring corrosion resistance and a beautiful, professional finish that meets customer-specified branding and expectations.
The final assembly phase integrates all components, including serial plates, hydraulic cylinders, computers, electronics, pins, bushings, and attachment-specific parts, to complete the excavator attachment. Full-cycle testing ensures all components function smoothly and the unit is in operating readiness.
The quality control phase rigorously inspects and tests every component and manufacturing step to ensure the excavator attachment meets strict performance, safety, and durability standards. This includes verifying welds, paint, hydraulic seals, electrical systems, pin sizes, final dimensions, weight, and more.
The packaging and shipment phase involves preparing the finished excavator attachment for safe transport by placing it on purpose-built wooden or steel pallets, securely strapping and wrapping it for maximum protection. The attachment is labeled alongside the customer's order and shipped to a distribution warehouse for delivery.
The Australian Quality Control phase occurs at the distribution warehouse, where staff group customer orders from multiple manufacturing locations, verify product specifications and pin size declarations, and confirm or add components and accessories, including any final customer requests. Attachments undergo final QC checks to ensure readiness for dispatch to the Australian market.
Specialised production capabilities for diverse industry needs.
Tailored solutions for specific machines and applications. Bespoke attachments designed to your exact specifications.
Specialised engineering for demanding mining operations. Built to withstand extreme conditions.
Every weld, dimension, steel grade and coating is checked before an attachment leaves the factory.
Allows evaluation of welds without damaging them:
We operate an NDT Laboratory approved by DNV for VT, MT, PT, and UT testing:
(Inspector FROSIO Level III)
Tell us your excavator and the job. We confirm fitment, then come back with pricing, lead time and delivery to site. Prefer to talk? Call (03) 9917 8598.
