Mercedes-Benz plant, Hungary - Increased availability through Plant Maintenance Services
Mercedes-Benz plant, Hungary - Increased availability through Plant Maintenance Services
Automotive
Mercedes-Benz
Kecskemét Hungary
In 2011, Mercedes-Benz Manufacturing Hungary Kft. was looking for a qualified and experienced maintenance partner who would maintain the functioning and availability of the paint shop equipment at its new plant in Kecskemét in the form of a maintenance partnership. Main requirements were the implementation of a maintenance management system in order to professionally carry out and further improve inspections as well as corrective and preventive maintenance activities. A further key requirement was the optimization of the spare parts management.
With the Plant Maintenance Services concept, Siemens provided a customized solution, which optimizes the execution of all electrical and mechanical maintenance activities. The Siemens Plant Maintenace Services concept was tailored to the precise needs of the Mercedes-Benz Manufacturing Hungary Kft. plant.
Above all, this involved meeting the requirement for high plant availability by ensuring professional and effective maintenance management. Precisely planned preventive maintenance activities reduce for example production line downtimes and utilize scheduled downtimes to carry out necessary maintenance work. Other services such as...
regular inspections
condition-based maintenance
optimized spare parts supply and storage concepts
...likewise help to maintain the required plant availability.
The maintenance experts from Siemens work in multi-shift operation in line with the customer's requirements.
More than 40 employees work in a four-shift operation to maintain the paint shop 365/24. Work in the assembly shop as well as in the central vehicle body sorter is executed in a 3 shift operation by more than 30 employees.
The Plant Maintenance Services concept from Siemens provides Mercedes-Benz Manufacturing Hungary Kft. with a single interface and contact partner who optimzes the maintenance and performance of all related plant equipment and systems for years to come. The specific adaptation of the maintenance organization to the respective plant processes guarantees efficient collaboration between the Siemens maintenance team and all respective levels of the organization. This approach helps Mercedes-Benz Manufacturing Hungary Kft. to reach the requested high plant availability: Min. 98,5% in the paint shop and min. 99,8% in the assembly shop and central vehicle body sorter. Other advantages include the high degree of certainty for production planning and the long-term calculability of maintenance budgets. The Siemens maintenance team therefore actively plays a key role in ensuring and enhancing the competitiveness of Mercedes-Benz Manufacturing Hungary Kft.
Siemens was selected by Mercedes-Benz Manufacturing Hungary Kft. to be the maintenance partner for its plant in Kecskemét/Hungary. Around 750 vehicles – mainly the new CLA and CLA Shooting Break generation of Mercedes compact cars – roll off the production line here every day. As part of a performance-based contract, Siemens is responsible for the maintenance of the paint shop, the central vehicle body sorter and conveyor technology in the assembly hall.
