17/04/2023
Four ways to identify the imported forklift parts and maintenance
Driven by the needs and interests of maintenance machinery, there are a variety of imported construction machinery and auto parts on the market, but the quality is uneven.
And high-quality accessories are the basis to ensure the routine work of mechanical equipment.
There are mainly “import” and “domestic” two significant categories of imported machinery parts on the market.
Imported parts include pure parts of a complete machine factory, high-quality parts of the professional matching factory, parts of non-complete machine models produced by countries (such as Japan, South Korea, Singapore, etc.), and parts from Hong Kong and Taiwan other regions.
“Domestic” parts, regular factory production of imported machinery parts, generally noted with the factory production mark.
Some informal factories or private workshops imitate imported machinery parts and print with pure parts or professional factory packaging, posing as pure parts to sell fake and inferior products.
There are also parts imported from South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan and other Asian countries and regions from non-Japanese or American complete machine factories, with exquisite packaging of pure parts, collectively called fake. Although they can be used, they are far inferior to the quality requirements of original pure parts, especially the imitation parts produced by informal manufacturers.
From the material, process, function, and other aspects can not meet the quality requirements of pure parts and professional factory products, the regular use and maintenance of automated vehicles have an impact, so for the operation and use of units, it is vital to identify the import of mechanical parts.
To identify the authenticity of imported machinery parts from the outer packaging identification.
Identification according to the package is a necessary procedure to check the authenticity of imported accessories.
Pure parts and foreign professional fittings factory accessories packaging production is exquisite, colour, pattern, the style have specific rules, it is difficult to imitate the same.
Imitation packaging is rough and easy to identify.
But some imitators rely on modern advanced printing technology. The parts packaging made very realistic. If not carefully identified, it is also difficult to distinguish.
Imported machinery parts generally have outer packaging and inner packaging, outer packaging has packing boxes, packing boxes;
The inner packaging is usually marked wrapping paper and plastic or paper bags.
The outer packing box (box) of pure imported accessories is affixed with the unified manufacturer, clear printing, good paper, and printed with “RTS(pure parts) mark, and marked with part number, name, quantity and manufacturer and country.
And imitation label printing is not acceptable. The colour is either light or heavy. It is challenging to be consistent with pure packaging. Using computer-printed part numbers and manufacturer mark colour is careful identification can distinguish the true and false.
According to the packing cases (boxes), the imported packing cases (boxes) are firm in texture and clear in design. The labels of the manufacturer and pure parts are printed on the packing boxes.
For example, KOMATSU printed Both KOMATSU and GENUINE PARTS on the packaging box. In contrast, MITSUBISHI printed MITSUBISHI and GENUINE PARTS on the whole packaging box. At the same time, the imitation packaging also printed these logos, but the colours are not correct, and the patterns are not clear.
To prevent counterfeiting in its packaging label with an anti-counterfeiting mark, some foreign companies can identify attention.
The inner packaging is usually wrapping paper, paper or plastic bags, with pure parts and company marks printed on the packaging.
The pattern, colour and design of the wrapping paper are difficult to imitate.
When identifying the packaging of imported parts, it should also be noted that construction machinery and automobile manufacturers have their professional parts suppliers.
When importing parts from manufacturers, there are both factory marks and matching factory marks on the packaging box.
For example, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ piston rings are supported by Japan’s RIKEN CORPORATION, and the outer packing boxes are printed with RIK marks.
But the single-piston ring box inside is a Mitsubishi-branded flower box, which is labelled “MIT”.
Piston ring specifications both indicate Mitsubishi Motor Industry Co., LTD., also note Riken Co., LTD., so do not mistakenly think that internal and external inconsistency is not pure parts.
Identification of imported machinery parts true or false two, from the quality of the product to identify
Identifying imported mechanical parts from product quality is the most critical link to identifying pure parts’ authenticity.
Driven by interests, the dealers assemble the whole machine with imported pure parts and then use the packaging of pure parts to install non-pure parts to sell to the market.
Therefore, the internal quality of the product must be inspected to confirm the authenticity of imported accessories.
The identification of product quality mainly carries on observation, inspection and test.
(1) Check from the appearance.
(2) Check the label on the forklift parts.
(3) Measure the size of the product through exceptional work to see whether it meets the requirements.
(4) Perform performance tests on the products.
(5) The physical and chemical properties of the products were tested.
(1) Check from the appearance.
See whether the processing of its product appearance is acceptable, whether the colour is standard.
If pure parts of the sample can be checked, the general imitation surface is relatively rough, and the product colour is not straight.
(2) Check the label on the forklift parts.
Genuine imported parts are printed with brand names, brand marks, part numbers and specific codes.
Some products also bear the name of manufacturer and country of manufacture.
Such as Japan Mitsubishi diesel engine piston, in its top engraved with part number, group number marking A, B, C and UP↑ direction marking;
The inner part of the piston skirt is cast with the marks of the model and Mitsubishi and the marks of IZUMI from the matching factory. The casting characters are clear and easy to recognize.
Imitation products that are not cast are illegible. It isn’t easy to achieve the effect of genuine products.
(3) Measure the size of the product through exceptional work to see whether it meets the requirements.
Some manufacturers even provide customers with measuring tools to prevent counterfeiting.
(4) Perform performance tests on the products.
Some parts can not be identified from the appearance of the inspection, the need to use special instruments for detection.
For example, the injector and plug should be tested on the test bench for performance tests, and the injection pressure, injection amount and injection Angle should be detected.
(5) The physical and chemical properties of the products were tested.
This kind of circumstance produces doubt to product impersonality quality commonly or appear in use problem. It is to seek a claim for compensation to the manufacturer when using the method.
The same parts, pure parts, professional parts, domestic parts and imitation of the difference is vast.
The price of pure parts is the highest, followed by professional factories, and the price of domestic parts and imitation is the lowest.
The general price of pure parts can exceed the imitation one or two times, some even more;
Foreign professional fittings factory parts are slightly lower than the whole machine factory pure parts.
For the parts imported in bulk regularly, the negotiated price shall be followed, while for the parts purchased sporadically, the unified catalogue price shall be followed.
Sometimes foreign companies also regularly deal with the preferential prices of accessories.
The prices quoted for these parts (in Yen or US dollars) are calculated based on the prevailing import exchange rate, plus tariffs, shipping orders, etc., which are then converted into unit prices for the parts known to the industry as standard prices.
Accessories that are lower than the conventional price can be judged as non-pure parts or professional factory parts.
It should be noted that the import link tax reduction and intermediate dealer price will also make the price deviate from the regular specification price.
At present, there are more channels for purchase. Still, nothing more than two aspects, one is directly imported from abroad, the second is to buy from the distributor, directly from foreign machine factory and parts and accessories factory imported accessories, quality is guaranteed.
According to the above method, accessories purchased from distributors or re-exported from Hong Kong and Macao should be identified.
In addition, all mechanical parts are imported directly from abroad. There are purchase contracts, bills of lading, waybills, packing lists and invoices.
If you purchase accessories from import companies, you can ask them to show the above procedures. Otherwise, it can be judged as non-imported genuine products.
In short, there are many ways to identify the authenticity of imported mechanical parts, do not use a single method, according to different types of parts to take different identification methods, and extensive use will be able to identify the authenticity of imported parts.
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