Papel Aralar Contracts Mill Maintenance at Spanish Mill to Voith
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At Amezketa, Voith will manage the entire maintenance crew to ensure that mechanical and electrical maintenance regimes, shutdown management, planning and scheduling, reliability maintenance, as well as maintenance material sourcing are completed according to the Voith best practice maintenance concept.
At Papel Aralar S.A., 90,000 metric tpy of uncoated and coated special papers are produced on three paper machines. To attain the maintenance best practice level, Voith will redesign and expand the mill’s existing maintenance management system, integrating the preventive and predictive maintenance processes. Parallel with this, failure mode and effects analysis will be performed to define the best fit maintenance concept for all equipment in the different process lines. The common target of the project is to improve overall equipment effectiveness and reduce the specific maintenance cost. The progress will be monitored by a number of commonly defined KPI’s.
To optimize maintenance cost and efficiency, Voith will synergize the resident service projects in several paper mills in North Spain with the Voith workshop in Tolosa, focusing on dynamic man powering, spare parts, and knowledge management.
Papel Aralar S.A. is a family-owned business, currently managed by the fourth generation. The company notes that since its foundation in 1936, it has employed the latest technology for papermaking, with ongoing investments to ensure it remains on the cutting edge.
