A specialised flour milling operation realised the need for reliability improvement due to irregular maintenance expenditure and unplanned breakdowns. The plant produces high quality flour for the baking and commercial sectors, and with the growing demand for flour during Covid conditions, the plant could not produce sufficient product to meet demand due to plant unavailability.
Resource Category: Case studies
An independent consortium venturing in a new opportunity to manufacture oil and protein adopted technical reliability as one of their due diligence checklist items to support their offer to purchase an ageing processing plant.
A plant operator in the renewable solar energy space approached Martec to provide a condition assessment of their MV electrical network and assets after experiencing an unexpected failure where they lost about 30% plant capacity. They have to ensure plant capacity is at least 95% available at all times due to contractual regulations.
Client Reference | Intime Monitoring to Ensure Plant Availability and Reliability | 33 kV Switchgear
Our client experienced failure on their electrical smelter. Very high electrical partial discharges activity was identified on furnace cable terminations while performing partial discharge diagnostic analysis of the online monitoring data.
Our client provides engineering services and a focused range of performance enhancing atmospheric gases, welding and safety products and LPG to valued customers. Given the criticality of the services offered by the client, MV components in all electrical networks must be kept to a highly reliable and maintainable standard to prevent premature failure.
The client provides engineering services and a focused range of performance enhancing Atmospheric Gases, Welding and safety products and LPG to valued customers. Given the criticality of the services offered by the client, transformers in all electrical networks must be kept to a high reliable and maintainable standard to prevent premature failure.
A large, independently operated and managed, black empowered manganese ore producer finds themselves under constant pressure to meet production demands with a single line from crushing to load out for export. A machine failure on the line results in high repair costs and downtime, which imposes significant risk. To ensure the deliverables are met safely […]
Our client is an electrical utility responsible for the supply and distribution of bulk electrical power to industrial and residential customers in six administrative regions within their country.
A large mining client received a number of complaints relating to residential property damage due to mining activities in the area.
A client working in the renewable energy space approached Martec to provide a condition assessment of around 800 Type “C” terminations in operation at various solar plants in South Africa.