ASSET OPTIMISATION PROGRAM
OVERVIEW
Berg’s capabilities and experience enable us to offer a holistic, fully integrated engineering, manufacturing and, if required, maintenance and asset management service to customers for complete asset lifecycle management and optimisation. Our extensive design and manufacturing expertise guarantees the quality and efficiency of our products, while providing effective solutions to your plant’s challenges and a focus on meeting delivery timeframes. In Berg, you have a trusted supply partner for all your parts and components.
DESIGN, ENGINEERING & CONSULTANCY
We offer the following services in the Engineering stage of the asset management lifecycle:
- Drawing and modelling
- Material and design specifications
- Design criteria
- Documentation
- Project plans and timelines
- Collaboration with experts and consultants.
Skills & Experience
To perform these services with precision, Berg rely on our experience, skills, and competencies in these areas:
- Heavy engineering
- Advanced problem solving
- Project management
- Hands-on Mechanical and Material Engineers
- Drafting & Design.
MANUFACTURING
Drawing on our extensive equipment and skill across machining, fabrication, hard facing, painting and more, we will expertly produce your part or component to the highest quality standards. Customers are invited to our facilities at any time to view the progress of their components. Every item is coded with a unique Berg part number for tracking.
Listed below are just some of the benefits our clients have seen from our ability to re-engineer, upgrade, and supply materials across a variety of sectors:
- More than double the life on high wear components
- Improved reliability
- Delivery reduced by 60%
- 80% reduction in cost compared with the original equipment manufacturer
- Improved operational and personnel safety.
24/7 Response
Our clients receive unparalleled service through our network of highly skilled machinists, the availability of our 24-hour response service / quick response facilities and our full range of portable machining, welding and testing capabilities.
Mobile Machining & Welding Repairs
Berg Provides state of the art machining, mechanical fitting and repair welding services ensuring all parts and components are manufactured in accordance with the latest design standards such as AS, ISO, ASTM and ASME.
Onsite Service capabilities include:
- Lineboring – 35 to 1500mm
- Lathing – 95 to 285mm
- Milling
- Keyway Milling – 3 to 50mm keys
- Flange Facing – 0 to 5000mm
- Clamshell Cutting – 25.4 to 1800mm
- Laser coupling alignment
To avoid break downs or maintenance issues, Berg can provide various troubleshooting solutions including risk-based inspections to help minimise machine down time, thus saving valuable resources. Our experienced team of engineers and senior inspectors can work on-site with plant personnel or independently to provide solutions to problematic equipment and components issues. By reviewing operating data, performing non-destructive examinations and conducting performance tests, we can identify the root causes and recommend and implement corrective actions.
Commissioning & Decommissioning
Berg can manage equipment removal, dismantling and decontamination services while protecting plant personnel from physical and environmental hazards. You can trust Berg to take the hassle out of managing sub-contractors by allowing us to manage the entire commissioning or decommissioning process to achieve the best result.
OUR VALUE ADD
SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCED COSTS
In the last financial year alone, Berg has worked with clients to achieve reduced operating costs of up to 19% by employing our tailored AOP. This unique program facilitates the end-to-end management of agreed rotable asset classes. Cost reduction targets are established and agreed at the outset of the program and then assessed quarterly.
IMMEDIATE AND ONGOING BENEFITS
Immediate cost savings are delivered through competitive pricing while still meeting or exceeding warranty and design criteria. Additional savings are achieved as Berg gains information about the service life of asset parts as they rotate through our facility. From the information gleaned, innovations can be explored to further optimise service life and reduce operating costs.
A PROVEN, SCALABLE SOLUTION
Because the AOP is modular, the program can be implemented and applied to a discrete piece of equipment, before being expanded to include additional assets upon meeting agreed targets. In our experience, proving the AOP’s value-adding capability with a single asset class is the best way to quickly build our clients’ confidence, at minimal perceived risk.
FORECAST SAVINGS
Based on previous applications of our AOP, cost savings in the realm of 10-15% (on consumable and simple items) can be expected. These savings may increase to as much as 20-30% on difficult and complex spares like castings, gears, and pump impellers. Further still, savings are achieved by streamlining inventory management and warehouse functions.