CHALLENGE
NEED FOR SERVICING & MAINTENANCE SERVICES
Valmet’s services are comprehensive, covering everything from maintenance outsourcing to mill and power plant upgrades and spares. Pulp mills, tissue, board and paper manufacturing lines and bioenergy power plants form the core of Valmet’s strong technology offering. In accordance with its vision, the company’s goal is to be the best in the world in serving its customers.
”More and more of our customers want to buy demanding servicing and maintenance services from the original equipment manufacturer, which would be us. There is also growing demand for long-term contracts in paper machine wear and spare parts supply. Paper machines are very complicated and have a large number of very expensive parts that wear in production use. We wanted to develop a model that would allow us to identify the factors that influence their life cycles and the optimisation of production use,” says Pekka Linnonmaa, Director, Paper Technology, EMEA, at Valmet.
SOLUTION
automated predictive analytics solution
Valmet and Houston Analytics, part of Unikie, collected data from the most valuable wear parts of the paper machine so that we could understand what influences lifespans. We analysed the need, available data and desired outcome using our agile service model. Our team helped Valmet to forecast paper machines’ servicing needs more efficiently and optimise production. In collaboration, we created an automated predictive analytics solution for business operations.
Data was collected from 6,500 sensors on the Valmet customer’s paper machine. “We use reports based on advanced analytics to develop a life cycle model. With the data from the sensors we can reduce the risk of unscheduled shutdowns,” says Linnonmaa.
RESULTS
Optimized process control, fewer non-defective products
Valmet has attained significant results in a very short time. The agile cooperation has created significant added value in improving the efficiency of an industrial process machine.
