The customer magazine of Andritz Pulp & Paper Issue 1— 2004

Portucel
Unique team OPEns the way
for millwide reliability
ASIP - Assist ^ encia e Serviços para a
Indústria do Papel, ACE, a specialpurpose
corporation owned by
Andritz, Siemens, ATM, and Portucel,
is responsible for the millwide maintenance
at Portucel's Setubal mill in
Portugal.
This is part of Andritz's service
concept called Overall Production
Efficiency (OPE ® ) where the goal is to
increase the production of a process
line, or entire mill, by leveraging the
overall maintenance activities.
In the case of Setubal, the goal was
not just to reduce maintenance costs,
according to Henrique Figueira, Pulp and
Energy Production Manager. "Our first
priority was to increase the availability
of the installed equipment, through better
maintenance approaches and state-ofthe-art
procedures. We are not interested
in saving money if, for instance, the availability
of the equipment decreases. We
want to keep availability at a high level, at
the minimum cost."
Seppo Sandberg, Site Manager for
ASIP and also an Andritz employee,
supports the logic to this approach.
"Maintenance cost per tonne of pulp
is a key performance indicator,"
Sandberg explains. "Each month we
report on the total maintenance cost per
tonne of pulp produced. ASIP's compensation
is based upon achieving key
performance criteria (production, quality,
raw material consumption, safety,
etc.) for each process area and overall.
"As the Site Manager, I have two
simple targets. The first is customer
satisfaction. Without customer satisfaction,
the second target is not achievable.
The second target is a positive
financial result for my company."
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The drive for more production
Figueira says that the short-term goal is
not only to significantly reduce maintenance
costs, but to increase production for
the same level of maintenance spending.
This will reduce maintenance cost/tonne.
The benchmark cost before ASIP began
was 35 euros per tonne. Today's target
is 27 euros per tonne. "The drive is for
more production at a higher equipment
availability," Figueira says.
"Our first attempt at outsourcing local
maintenance began about eight years
ago in the woodyard area," Figueira
says. "We also did this for the effluent
treatment plant, but only small local
companies were involved at that time."
Left: Henrique
Figueira, Pulp and
Energy Production
Manager for Setubal.
"We want to keep
equipment availability
at a high level, at the
minimum cost."
Right: Seppo
Sandberg (right), Site
Manager for Andritz's
OPE ® team at Setubal,
confers with a pulp
production supervisor
in front of the continuous
digester.