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VOLUME 5 NUMBER 29 MARCH/APRIL 2015

Andritz: Not just maintenance – continuous improvement

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TAnd while maintenance is

production, customer

maintenance and process

how quality is obtained and

There are maintenance outsourcing companies

Not just maintenance – continuous improvement

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The fibreline at Metsä Fibre’s Äänekoski mill where

ANDRITZ’s first Overall Production Efficiency contract

was awarded

example remote monitoring

planning, and how to upgrade

Camilla Wikström, mill manager at Metsä Fibre’s Äänekoski mill

Jari Kapenen, global product manager for Overall Production Efficiency at ANDRITZ

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“OPE is not just equipment, just process, just maintenance, or

all these things together into one

is eliminated at one position,

challenge might be the impact

which can become the next

going to touch a machine, we

the mill all the time should lead

is to create a longer term we create together an annual

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Mill manager Camilla Wikström with Kalevi Kurki, customer service manager for ANDRITZ

Process Overall Production Efficiency in the white liquor plant of a mill in South America

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Process Overall Production Efficiency in action at a mill in South America

maintenance outsourcing where

producer in South America, the

employed in the white liquor

OPE experts and mill personnel

is a mantra, “What gets measured,

in 2004 in the white liquor plant

washing, screening, and oxygen

white liquor plant helped us

were problems with digester

the digester with new screens and some other changes which

“We now get about 200 to 250 more tonnes per day through

accomplished with small changes,

to come to us with new ideas

tune control loops remotely, but without dialogue with the operators and managers, this has

Quarterly development review meetings make sure the key production indicators and the plan are progressing in correctly