November 2, 2026 · Indumor
Used machine: equipment that has already produced for someone else and, moved properly, can produce for you. Moved badly, it is a pile of iron with a history.
The difference between the two gets decided before the first bolt is loosened. If the machine is still hooked up, watch it run, with material, and film it. Then document everything that will be lost when it comes apart: a tag on every cable and every hose with the terminal or port number it came from, photos of the inside of the panel, the drive parameters written down and a copy of the PLC program saved in two places. A PLC whose battery dies during the move can reach its destination with no program, and with no program there is no machine.
The paperwork goes in the same bag. An invoice in your name, proof that no lien sits on the equipment and, if it was bought at auction, the auction record. It looks like red tape. It is not.
It comes apart in assemblies, not loose parts, each one marked along with every bolt that joins it to the next. Why film a teardown you are going to reassemble yourself? Because weeks pass between the two, and memory does not hold that long. The delicate parts travel on saddles or on frames built for them, strapped down, and the full load has to stay within the 4.30 m height and 2.60 m width that Argentine traffic law sets for a truck. What does not fit gets broken down further or travels on a special permit.
At the destination the foundation is built to fit the machine that arrives, not the other way around. It gets leveled again, because the old leveling died with the old base. It is rewired with the tags in hand, the parameters and the program are loaded, and it runs empty before it sees material. A machine that sat idle for months between one plant and the next also deserves the inspection we describe in what to check before starting an idle machine.
If the move is more than you want to handle, Indumor takes on the dismantling, the saddles and transport frames, the load logistics, the foundation, the erection and the commissioning, in Argentina. Which machine do you want to move, and from where?
Bearings, oil, batteries and insulation before the first start.
Read guide →Dismantling, saddles, transport, foundation and start-up in your plant: we quote the whole job or just the parts you need.
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