Maintenance Outsourcing: A Step Towards Product Service Systems

From stringent hygienic requirements to ensure food safety, to tight production schedules and constantly changing consumer tastes, food and beverage processors face a number of unique challenges. It’s imperative that processors’ equipment operates at peak performance, minimizing downtime while ensuring high quality end products for consumption. Pump performance is a critical factor in overall operational efficiency. Properly functioning pumps ensure product flows effectively through the line to final packaging and distribution, and they play a crucial role in efficient cleaning-in-place processes. Condition monitoring of pumps in the food and beverage industry.

Ultrasonic leak detection has been used for a variety of applications ranging from energy reduction by locating compressed air leaks to quality assurance inspections such as locating wind noise and water leaks in automobiles. The secret to success is to understand the nature of what type of leak produces a detectible ultrasound and what does not, along with the techniques that can be used for effective leak identification.

Predictive maintenance helps Calpine reduce forced outages and cut MRO costs. The challenge for energy producers to supply continuous, uninterrupted power to customers is constant. Forced outages, which usually occur because of unexpected component failures or systemic problems, can prove costly to the power supplier and undermine its effort to attract and maintain satisfied customers.

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Integrity Testing is a proactive approach to preventive maintenance for Plate and Tubular Heat Exchangers in sanitary processing environments. This process allows for the early identification of potential leaks and failures, serving as a cost-effective and environmentally friendly form of preventive maintenance.   

Expert troubleshooters have a good understanding of the operation of electrical components that are used in circuits they are familiar with, and even ones they are not. They use a system or approach that allows them to logically and systematically analyze a circuit and determine exactly what is wrong. They also understand and effectively use tools such as prints, diagrams and test instruments to identify defective components. Finally, they have had the opportunity to develop and refine their troubleshooting skills.

Using lubrication and oil analysis to enhance machine reliability is really too simple. Behind the appearances of complexity and vale of high science are the most basic of concepts. We can try to make it difficult, but why? With the right tools and a generous amount of training, a seemingly challenging task can be transformed into something almost mundane, but still powerful.