SSG’s newly launched Reliability and Efficiency Committee held its inaugural meeting on 16 June at SCA’s head office on Klarabergsviadukten in Stockholm.
The meeting was attended by representatives from Stora Enso, Billerud, Holmen, Korsnäs, M-real, SCA, Södra Cell, Cascades Djupafors, Fiskeby Board, Munksjö Aspa Bruk and SSG.
The purpose of the committee’s work is to identify common collaborative benefits from a perspective of operational availability and cost. The board of SSG has tasked SSG and the new committee with drawing up a long-term action plan and with prioritising certain activities that can be started and run over a two-year period.
Broad support
Mats Karlsson from SSG opened proceedings by outlining decisions taken by the SSG board and presenting a summary of work and results related to the launch of the new committee.
The committee will initially comprise mills in the Swedish pulp and paper industry. An invitation to take part in an industry committee was sent to 49 mills in Sweden, with 32 mills since confirming their interest in taking part and three mills yet to respond.
SSG’s board and the new committee also remain positively disposed towards future discussion and collaboration with other interested parties, since the driving focus of the committee is to be efficiency and operational availability, whatever the context.
Composition of the committee
In line with previous decisions, the new Reliability and Efficiency Committee will comprise representatives from the seven owning companies and from all the other mills that have chosen to take part.
On the basis of Stora Enso’s already well developed work on maintenance, the Group’s Maintenance Director Henrik Olofsson was appointed chairman of the committee. During the meeting, the committee was informed about the importance of working with Sweden’s national organisation for operational reliability and maintenance, UTEK, explaining the need for a representative from this organisation to be included on the committee.
The Reliability and Efficiency Committee therefore comprises the following individuals: Henrik Olofsson (chairman) Stora Enso, Håkan Eriksson, Billerud Skärblacka, Mikael Wahlgren, Holmen Hallsta, Staffan Orthin, Korsnäs Frövi, Stefan Rönnquist, M-real Husum, Nicklas Holfelt, , SCA Ortviken, Henning Ekström, Stora Enso Kvarnsveden, Tomas Håkansson, Södra Cell Mönsterås, Magnus Nerpin, Arctic Paper Grycksbo, Ulf Lundberg, Cascades Djupafors, Jan Crone, Domsjö fabriker, Staffan Andersson, Fiskeby Board, Claes Rödén, Inlands kartongbruk (Knauf Danogips), Bengt Lindqvist, Munksjö Aspa Bruk, Lars Rosén Nordic Paper and Christer Olsson, UTEK.
Objectives, tasks and planning
During the first meeting, it was decided that the committee’s initial purpose will be to work on standards and recommendations in the area of operational reliability and maintenance efficiency, along with benchmarking – getting started on comparing, reaching out and gaining acceptance.
Tools for benchmarking
One of the key points on the agenda was the issue of benchmarking key figures for maintenance and choosing a suitable tool.
The committee decided to appoint two working groups to assess two different alternatives, both of which will be presented at the committee meeting on 1 September. The basic criteria are that the tool must support SSG 2001 and that comparisons are supplier-neutral, i.e. independent of who carries out the maintenance.
The mills prioritise important key figures
The next stage will be to flesh out the specification of requirements and choose the key figures that will initially be compared. The aim is to present a static comparison (a single measurement point) in 2011. All the committee members were therefore tasked with identifying their priority key figures, which SSG will collate.
The mills are all at different levels in their work on maintenance efficiency, which will mean an ongoing debate on interpretations of definitions, as SSG 2001 is introduced into the organisations. It is therefore being proposed that SSG will gather together issues of interpretation, so that the committee can agree on a single, industry-wide interpretation. SSG can also escalate issues to a European level through UTEK.