Batısöke Cimento 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 the customer wanted a qualified service solution to ensure their planning security and calculable service costs for their SIMOVERT MASTERDRIVES converter.

Siemens was able to offer a suitable Service and Maintenance Agreement for their SIMOVERT MASTERDRIVES converter 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 converter
• Reaction times: 12 hours
• Included services: SIMAIN cleaning, individual on site trainings, asset optimization services

In a first step the Siemens 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).

The foundations of facility were laid in 1955 and it started its activities as wet system with a clinker capacity of 85.000 tons/year. Product range of Batisoke Cimento includes portland clinker, portland cements, blended cements as well as white cement and sulfate resisting cement that requires compelling and special work.