Pump Exchange Program Means Big Savings

North American Paper Company

Challenge:

Due to reduction in maintenance staff, customer did not have enough man hours to complete all required equipment repairs.

Solution:

• Customer called with number of back pull out assemblies required for scheduled mill outage
• Crane Engineering delivers required BPOs assemblies to mill
• Mill maintenance staff installs exchanged BPOs and stages removed BPOs for Crane pick up
• Crane repairs BPO assemblies to full OEM standards utilizing new and any salvageable parts
• Mill is invoiced Bi-monthly on blanket order for the exchanged BPOs

Results:

• Plant maintenance staff available to perform more specialized paper machine repairs.
• Consistent repairs to OEM standards by factory trained service technicians.
• Reduction in customer component inventory.
• Transactional Savings
  • Bi-monthly Invoicing
  • Store Room Receiving Eliminated
  • PO Issuance Reduced