Smart collaboration between SKF South Africa's four business units enables plant optimization and brings several sustainability benefits to key customer Wilmar SA (Pty) Ltd, part of Wilmar International Limited. Benefits have been brought.
Founded in 1991 and headquartered in Singapore, Wilmar International Limited is one of Asia's leading agribusiness groups and ranks among the largest listed companies by market capitalization on the Singapore Exchange. Wilmar International's business activities include oil palm cultivation, oilseed crushing, edible oil refining, sugar milling and refining, consumer products, specialty oils, oleochemicals, biodiesel and fertilizer manufacturing, and flour and rice milling. included. Local companies' consumer products include cooking oil, rice, margarine, shortening, and mayonnaise.
SKF Services' global service agreement was signed through the SKF Indonesia office. When this information was shared with SKF Global, SKF South Africa identified an opportunity to provide value-added solutions and services to Wilmar SA's Randfontein factory in West Rand, Gauteng, Johannesburg.
As a result of collaboration between our customers and SKF, SKF is now able to offer management of rotating assets within the factory,” explains Simphiwe Siwela, SKF Territory Sales Manager. “They always rely on corrective maintenance, and following this form of maintenance practice, bearings and other related components are only replaced if they fail. As a result, customers are protected from unexpected machine failures. This occurred frequently and forced unplanned outages, resulting in significant costs in production time and subsequent loss of company capital.”
Customers are keen to partner with SKF to implement RCM. To fully understand the customer's needs, SKF conducted an on-site inspection and met with Wilmar SA's technical team led by Mduduzi Dube (Plant Engineering Manager) and Nhlanhla Maswanganye (Maintenance Planner).
After a site visit, SKF's business units CoMo (Condition Monitoring), MaPro (Maintenance Tools), MFS (Mechanical Field Service) and Lincoln (Lubricating Systems) have combined their collective experience, knowledge and capabilities to has developed products. Service solution package for Wilmar SA.
“Our proposal included on-site monthly vibration condition monitoring of critical plant equipment and proposed both online and offline systems,” said Siwera. “In addition to monthly lubrication inspections of the existing Lincoln system, SKF and Wilmar decided to install new lubrication systems for additional critical assets.”
The SKF team will also equip Wilmar technical personnel with SKF maintenance tools such as rapid data collection (QuickCollect sensors) and laser alignment tools (MaPro) to facilitate spot checks of random equipment. I suggested it. Siwela added that SKF's proposal also includes training to ensure proficient, accurate and efficient use of SKF maintenance products by Wilmar personnel to optimize tool performance. .
Wilmar SA accepted SKF's complete solution proposal and signed a service level agreement for monthly vibration condition monitoring and 12-month inspection of the Lincoln lubrication system, as well as mechanical field service on an ad hoc basis. A new lubrication system for the extractor at the Randfontein plant has been successfully installed and commissioned by the Lincoln team. The customer also ordered the SKF TKSA71 laser alignment tool and his CMDT 391-PRO-KS-SL QuickCollect sensor. Mr. Siwela asserts that basic condition monitoring and laser adjustment training has already been carried out by him with Wilmar SA technicians.
Mr. Siwela said that as a direct result of this ongoing project, equipment reliability and service life have been improved, unplanned outages have been significantly reduced, and plant operations have been optimized. They also point out that, most importantly, machine and operator safety has been enhanced.
SKF offered several sustainability benefits that reduce costs and contribute to customers' green environmental goals. In addition to reducing material consumption, direct energy and emissions during use, indirect energy consumption from support systems has also been reduced. This is consistent with Wilmar International Limited's strategy to embed sustainability in its global operations, supply chain and communities.
To add further value, SKF approached the OEM that supplies most of the equipment/machinery for Wilmar SA's preparation plant and proposed cooperation in supplying bearings for the machinery. “Our proposal was successful and the company has now become one of his OE customers buying directly from SKF,” he admits Siwela.
“We consider this to be a very successful project. We will strengthen and strengthen collaboration between SKF's business units, while adding value to our customers through overall plant optimization and subsequent production increases. ” concluded Siwela.