Sep 29, 2020
Valmet now offers a fixed price volume purchase agreement to improve your mill operations. Whether it's inspections, outage planning, troubleshooting, tuning, optimization, remote monitoring, training or onsite service - a Valmet Flexible Service Agreement gives you easier budgeting at a significant discount, with predicable maintenance costs.
An agreement with a budgeted bank of hours can be used for any Valmet services - whether onsite or remote, scheduled or emergency.
The Valmet Flexible Service Agreement package is an annual agreement between Valmet Service and the customer to provide field services. The package includes a mutually agreed amount of hours of service to be used within the agreement period.
The customer commits to a specific level of hours. For that commitment, they can receive a substantial discount. The higher the commitment level, the higher the discount.
Expenses such as airfares, hotels, meal per diems, shipping costs, consumables and equipment rental are not included in the package price. They will be added to the invoice as a variable monthly expense at cost plus 10%.
The customer does not have to commit to Valmet for all field service activities during the agreement period.
In addition to basic ease of mind, the agreement gives:
Valmet and the customer agree to a package of hours and agreement period. All hours used under the agreement are converted to equivalent hours based on the type of hour. Expenses are added as a monthly variable cost. The mill is billed once a month.
The Valmet Flexible Service Agreement hours can be applied to any project and any type of field service. In the example below, the mill used the agreement to more predictably budget expert service related to outages for two paper machines over the course of a year.
Service type | Basis | Hours |
PM1 - 1 day outage service | 1 day, travel, prep, post | 40 |
PM1 - Inspection before outage | 3 days onsite plus travel, prep, post | 48 |
PM1 - Annual outage services | 3 service representatives, 5 days, 12 hour days, travel, prep, post | 320 |
PM2 - Annual outage services | 4 service representatives, 5 days, 12 hour days, travel, prep, post | 432 |
PM1 - 1 day outage service | 1 day, travel, prep, post | 40 |
PM2 - 1 day outage service | 1 day, travel, prep, post | 40 |
PM1 - 1 day outage service | 1 day, travel, prep, post | 40 |
PM2 - 1 day outage service | 1 day, travel, prep, post | 40 |
TOTAL | 1000 |
For more information on achieving predictable maintenance costs with easier budgeting, contact your Valmet representative.