Limak Ergani factory, Turkey - Increased availability with Siemens as a service partner
Limak Ergani factory, Turkey - Increased availability with Siemens as a service partner
Minerals
Limak Ergani Cimento
Diyarbakır Turkey
Limak Ergani Cement was looking for a suitable service partner, who was able to minimize planned and unplanned downtimes in order to increase the availability of their plants. Furthermore, they were looking for a solution to be more flexible in the production and warehousing process.
To accomplish these goals Limak wanted a qualified service solution to ensure their planning security and calculable service costs for their SIMOVERT MASTERDRIVES, MICROMASTER 4 and PLC´s.
Siemens was able to offer a suitable Service and Maintenance Agreement for their SIMOVERT MASTERDRIVES, MICROMASTER 4 and PLCs which includes predictive and preventive maintenance activities for the customers hardware and software on-site.
The Service and Maintenance Agreement is based on an annual renewable contract with the following specifications:
Product scope:
SIMOVERT MASTERDRIVES (additional starting in 2017: MICROMASTER 4 and PLC´s)
Reaction time:
12 hours (2017/2018: 24 hours)
Included services:
SIMAIN cleaning, individual on-site trainings (additional starting in 2017: asset optimization services)
Reruns:
February 2016 (7,000 €), February 2017 (7,000 €), February 2018 (7,000 €)
In a first step the Siemens service experts got an overview of the existing plant structure incl. all running assets and system software. The second step was to collect and archive all the system software backups, to ensure nothing will be lost after the updates. In a last step the Siemens experts summarized all recommended service activities and discussed it with the customers technical personnel (especially the protection and cooling for the Motor Control Center (MCC) needed to be increased).
Thanks to the customized Service and Maintenance Agreement, the customer is able to focus on their basic maintenance tasks, while a Siemens service expert is responsible for the expert maintenance.
Furthermore, the customer can benefit from the following:
Increased plant availability
Defining new maintenance strategies
Increased productivity and reduced unplanned downtimes
Defined reaction times in case of a shutdown
Ensured spare part availability and fast delivery
Reduced lifecycle costs
Predictable maintenance budget
Limak Ergani Cement factory was established in the Ergani district of Diyarbakır until its transfer to the Limak organization in 2006 where the factory has reached its current modern outlook. The factory has an annual production capacity of approximately 793 thousand tons of clinker and 1.4 million tons of cement, with dust emissions in compliance with the standards set forth by the World Bank.
