Maintenance services

Industrial maintenance outsourcing, which is the use of external sources to support or take over the internal maintenance organization in a given production facility, is becoming a typical solution in the world, and a more and more popular approach in Poland in the recent years.

For 38 years in the USA and 16 years in Poland, BE&K has been providing outsourced maintenance services setting new standards, and satisfying the needs of domestic and foreign clients.

BE&K Europe’s outsourced maintenance services include:

  • restructuring of existing maintenance forces
  • organization of new or take over of existing maintenance forces to provide:
    • total maintenance services
    • supplemental maintenance services
  • maintenance restructuring consulting services
    • overview of used technologies and selection of equipment
    • preparation and implementation of improvements
    • analysis of technical condition of machines and equipment and determination of weak points
    • repair cost analyses
    • machine up-time/efficiency analysis
    • overview/analysis of workforce ratio in terms of accuracy for a given plant and reorganization action proposals
  • management and operation of client’s shops and facilities
  • technical services performed on BE&K Europe managed maintenance projects include:
    • computerized systems of machines and equipment inspection/repair management, tool management, and tests of tools subject to approvals
    • planning/scheduling
    • management/supervision over process and repair shutdowns
    • maintenance and repairs of equipment
    • specialist inspection/repair services of high complexity equipment
    • diagnostics: vibration analysis, dynamic balancing of rotating equipment, laser alignment, hydraulic units operation analysis, oil analysis, etc
    • tribology
    • NDT tests including X-ray, magnetic particle and ultrasonic tests of welds, sealness tests of chemically resistant linings, ferrite contents in steel tests, liquid-penetrant and visual inspections
    • purchasing and warehousing management

The following are our current and former clients in terms of maintenance services:

  • International Paper Kwidzyn, Poland – restructuring and supplemental maintenance since 1994
  • International Paper Svetogorsk, Russia – restructuring and supplemental maintenance since 2002, total maintenance since 2008 (provided by BE&K East)
  • Kemira Świecie, Poland – total maintenance of the production department and warehouse operation since 2009
  • Kimberly Clark, Poland (formerly International Paper Klucze) – total maintenance from 1998 to 2007
  • Zakład Płyt Wiórowych, Grajewo, Poland (currently Pfleiderer) – total maintenance from 1999 to 2001

Our maintenance philosophy is to provide our clients with maintenance services that exceed their in-house maintenance forces as for the efficiency and work organization.

BE&K Europe’s information gathered on maintenance projects up to date shows that there is still a significant number of production facilities that operate at a relatively low level of maintenance system management.

For self-evaluation of your maintenance management system, please see the diagram below presenting levels and the cost – quality relation in maintenance management:

Well-organized outsourcing of maintenance services creates a number of advantages. Usually the main motivating factor for reorganization the traditional maintenance solutions is maintenance cost reduction.The benefits of outsourced maintenance include:

  • emergency shutdown prevention
  • extension of equipment and machine lifetime
  • optimization of machine availability and uptime
  • reduction of and faster reaction to defects and failures
  • improvement of work organization and efficiency of the human resources
  • increase in work safety
  • reduction of spare parts stock