Task
Execution of risk analysis and implementation of Installed Base Audit (IBA) at Master-foods GmbH’s Viersen plant to secure production against instrumentational contingency risks and to optimize spare parts management.

Preparation
On definition of service volume and structuring and tuning of project processes in collaboration with the customer, the contract for IBA-implementation was set up as well as the services assessment policy and agreement on commissioning.

Contractor
Endress+Hauser Messtechnik GmbH & Co. KG, founded in 1953 and wholly owned by the Endress family since 1975, is an internationally leading supplier of measuring and monitoring instruments and automation solutions for the industrial process engineering industry. In 2004 the Endress+Hauser Group employed a staff of 6.294 and posted sales of € 784,5 million. 71 companies in 35 countries are controlled by a holding company in Reinach/Switzerland. E+H offers a far range of instruments, components, engineering services, operation services, measurement and control solutions. This includes designs for products for safety-related applications like sensors and measurement devices to determine pressures, temperatures, flows, levels, and forward this information to sophisticated control technology. In refineries, gas production facilities, pharmaceutical and chemical plants, pulp manufacturing, breweries and large water treatment facilities all around the world, E+H is supporting its customers with custom-made process automation solutions. In 2004 8,9 per cent of E+H sales went into R&D. In the same year E+H filed 168 new products for patents.

Internet
www.de.endress.com  

Brief Description

• Risk analysis of monitoring equipment and technology including spare parts ma-nagement at Masterfoods’ plant in Viersen.
• Development of a custom-made maintenance strategy and project planning for optimizing plant-specific maintenance, gauging and calibrating intervals.
• Enablement of preventive maintenance within the facility to enhance availability of instrumentation and equipment, increasing operational security and product quality.
• Measures implemented to reduce spare parts stock and capital costs. 

Customer's Benefit

• Transparency of the scope of installed monitoring and measuring equipment.
• Increasing equipment availability.
• Reduction of maintenance costs through traceable and precise calibration. 
• Optimizing of spare parts management. 
• Enhanced quality control.

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