Up & Running articles
Up & Running articles
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Improve roll asset management, reduce risk, lower costs (webinar)
A Valmet webinar reviewed the roll agreement concept including case studies of mill achievements. The recorded webinar is described here and available to view.
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Optimizing continuous digester performance (webinar)
Many continuous digesters are operating over design, making the system too sensitive to process disturbances. A Valmet webinar reviewed issues and solutions.
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Make slitter adjustments safely, provide better paper quality
Operators must check and adjust slitters in a safe manner regularly for slitter positioning systems to perform well, including gap, sideload, overlap and angle.
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Mill finds good housekeeping can reduce vibration, case study
PM5 was producing waves of vibration that speed limited the machine, reducing production by 10%. Vibration analysis pointed to the gearbox pinion shafts.
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Valmet Seal Strip Flex extends roll change intervals, case study
The seal strip on this mill's paper machine was wearing too rapidly. For five years they had struggled. Valmet's new flexible seal more than doubled runtimes.
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Mill Safety - Lockout procedures save lives and equipment
Locking out power sources and drives is an important safety procedure. If not done, components can be started while personnel are out of the operator's sight.
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Stop waste due to cockle wrinkles - avoid contributing factors
Cockle wrinkles, common on light weight paper machines, cause waste paper and rejected rolls resulting from downstream sheet breaks. They are influenced by basis weight variation and high drying temperatures.
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Flexible Service Agreement: Easy budgeting with predicable costs
Valmet now offers a fixed price volume purchase agreement to improve mill operations. Regardless of service type, maintenance costs will now be predictable.
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Improve profitability and efficiency with a Performance Agreement
Valmet’s Performance Agreement is a mill-wide development program to improve and maintain your competitiveness and profitability throughout the mill lifecycle.
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Securing mill efficiency and continuous reliability improvement
Most equipment failures are random. For high value, critical equipment this program proactively does the right work at the right time and maximizes reliability.