Borusan Mannesmann Halkalı Fabrikası 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 Borusan wanted a qualified service solution to ensure their planning security and calculable service costs.

Siemens was able to offer a suitable Service and Maintenance Agreement for their Master Drive, MM4 and G120, which includes predictive and preventive maintenance activities for the customers´ hardware and software on-site. 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 In a last step the Siemens experts summarized all recommended service activities (e.g. updates/upgrades, out of date products) and discussed it with the customers technical personnel. (Protecting and cooling MCC chambers from dust)

• Contract duration: Annual
• Spare parts: Included

The Service and Maintenance Agreement is based on an annual renewable contract with the following reaction times and specifications:

• Reaction times: 12 hours
• Included services: SIMAIN cleaning, on-site training, asset optimization services

Additionally, the service solution includes individual on-site trainings for the customers personnel and suitable spare parts. There was already a contract signed in October 2015 with this customer:

• Service and Maintenance Agreement for their Master Drive, MM4 and G120
• Contract duration: Annual
• Spare parts: Included
• Reaction times: 4 hours
• Included services: SIMAIN cleaning, on-site training, asset optimization services

Borusan Mannesmann provides high quality products to use securely in every aspect of life. It holds a wide range of products such as gas pipes, water pipes, general purpose pipes, OCTG pipes. Borusan Mannesmann was founded in 1958 as the first industrial venture of the Borusan Group. Today, with a labor force of 1500 employees and 1.4 million tons of steel pipe production capacity, Borusan Mannesmann stands as one of Europe's leading steel pipe producers and is the market leader in Turkey. Thanks to the knowledge buildt up of 58 years, Borusan Mannesman offers a wide range of products and carries out the production activities in Gemlik and Halkalı in Turkey and also in Italy and the USA. With tailor-made industry pipes and profiles manufactured at Halkalı plant, Borusan Mannesmann offers a wide range of products from automotive to furniture and white goods.