Efficient, safe, and sustainable maintenance delivered by a committed partner - Maintenance Development Operations Service

Sep 29, 2024

Mill maintenance operation development services are solutions provided by Valmet to help you resolve any maintenance-related problems through ongoing learning and collaboration. Valmet provides advisory, training and specialist services in four areas of mill maintenance that are identified as the most common and demanded among customers. Below I have answered frequently asked questions about maintenance development.

How can you develop your maintenance operations?

To succeed in a highly competitive market, you need to be forward-looking, adaptive, creative, and willing to learn and continuously develop. With Valmet’s Maintenance Operation Development Service, we can help your maintenance organization identify and prioritize areas for improvement, discover the relevant processes or procedures involved, and implement the changes successfully.

What areas of maintenance are you looking to optimize?

Valmet has a long history of implementing new processes and equipment, with over 20 reference cases worldwide. We can support you in the following areas:

Maintenance planning and management
Equipment reliability and optimization
Digitalization
Quality, health, safety, and environment

How can Valmet help you achieve a more effective mill maintenance operation?

We can help you develop and optimize your maintenance operations step by step with our tools, procedures, and expert knowledge. With our maintenance operations development service, we can:

Identify single or multiple areas of improvement in collaboration with your team to discover where there is the greatest potential for success.
Implement changes project by project, eliminating the need for large investments.
Provide an expert on-site from the start to guide the maintenance manager.
Facilitate the implementation period through change management and subsequently hand over to the maintenance team.

How can you increase the utilization rate of your mill?

Maintenance process optimization is a mill or plant-wide maintenance and reliability program for increasing the utilization rate of the organization. It identifies and prioritizes gaps in process efficiency, prioritizes improvement opportunities, and develops and implements plans for process improvements. Planning driven by responsibility and accountability leads to full utilization of your organization!

How can you analyze and identify the root cause of failures in products, processes, or equipment?

With Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA), you will have a process for analyzing and identifying the root cause of failures in products, processes, or equipment. The aim is to develop a structured and systematic process to eliminate these causes and prevent their recurrence. Understanding the true reasons behind failures helps improve safety, reliability, and efficiency. RCFA is a proactive and reactive analysis of opportunities for improvement, creating an army of problem solvers!

How can you identify which spare parts are critical to your operation?

Let us help you! We analyze and use a process of assigning assets a criticality rating based on their potential risk to:

Identify possible consequences of failure
Prioritize maintenance tasks
Ensure mill and equipment reliability

How can you work smarter for a more efficient and safer team?

This is where 5S comes in. Sort, set in order, shine, standardize, and sustain are the tools of lean process improvement that eliminate waste and optimize workplace organization. 5S is a daily habit developed by the work community where we continuously improve every day. It is not just a project with a start and end. To support you in eliminating waste and optimizing workplace organization, we use the tool 5S for lean process improvement:

Safer working environment
Reduced waste – time & cost
Faster mobilization
Faster identification of potential failures
Efficient team

How can digitalization help you to improve maintenance efficiency?

We can help you take advantage of digitalization in maintenance.

With Maintenance Master Data (MMD), you can manage your maintenance operations at your site efficiently and effectively. MMD entails the collection and consistent formatting of a large amount of high-quality data to improve operating efficiency. It ensures that you maintain the equipment at the right time throughout its life cycle based on correct data.

With a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS), you can control your maintenance through a comprehensive system, i.e., controlling equipment, skills, and accurate work execution. To centralize maintenance information and facilitate the processes of maintenance operations, we recommend CMMS software. The core of CMMS is its database, which is derived from maintenance master data. Here we can offer CMMS solution design, preventative and proactive maintenance, and utilization.

What are the main incentives for you to choose Valmet?

There are several reasons why Valmet is a good partner when it comes to maintenance development:

History of implementation: Valmet has a long history of implementing new processes and equipment, with over 20 reference cases worldwide.
Temporary support – long term benefits: Valmet provides short-term expertise that continuously improves the customer’s operations in the long run.
Instant expert knowledge: Customers quickly receive expert knowledge to strengthen or change processes and technology, eliminating the need for pre-implementation training.
Cost savings: You can reduce costs through improved technical availability and better cost management.
Temporary increased headcount: Valmet’s service team temporarily supports your staff, providing education and expert knowledge while allowing you to continue your daily tasks.
Flexibility: The services are adaptable to the specific needs of the customer.
5S: Valmet’s service team always works and educates according to the 5S methodology.

How does the Maintenance Development Operations Service benefit you?

Through the transfer of skills and knowledge facilitated by Valmet's expert team, you can utilize our capacity to solve future maintenance-related problems and establish maintenance excellencies: