This article is based on the experience of a paper mill located in the South of France. The company aimed at increasing its production output without adding capacity, though a simultaneous increase in production speed and machine availability. At the same time, direct maintenance cost was to be cut down, primarily by decreasing bearing replacements and reducing oil consumption.

Most industries rely on meter readings, at the very least to measure the consumption of electricity and water (utility meters) but also to follow-up production (cycles, running hours, quantity produced, and other operation meters).

Our customers only get to meet a few Siveco people during the course of a project. Several of our employees suggested that maybe our newsletter should not always be so serious and we could share something about the “Siveco people”.

As Siveco customers already know, COSWIN was designed with a very intuitive “job-oriented” user interface. Unlike accountants and other corporate staff, who are used to spend most of their day at the office using software like Excel, we maintenance engineers have much less patience with IT! If the system is not extremely easy to use, chances are that technicians won’t use it…

SCIP SITA Waste Services operates the largest and most sophisticated chemical waste incinerator in mainland China, with an annual treatment capacity of 60,000 tons per year. The incinerator, in operation since June 2006, is a critical element in the supply chain of giant chemical producers located in the park, which rely on the SCIP SSWS to burn hazardous by-products according to European standards.

We see it all the time: companies attempting to reinvent the wheel, defining their own measures of maintenance performance, creating their own coding systems for equipment tags, failure codes, etc. This process may take months, sometimes years, and lead to very unsatisfactory results.