Discover how the largest workshop dedicated to industrial valve maintenance in Latin America has explored this concept.
Like other equipment, industrial valves also need maintenance, mainly because they involve the efficiency of their operations and the safety of people and facilities.
However, this process is not always pleasant because performing maneuvers for maintenance or carrying out a factory shutdown involves many concerns, and they cannot always be resolved quickly.
Understand how we have innovated industrial valve maintenance by bringing the aftermarket concept into our daily lives! To do this, navigate through the following topics of this article:
- What is aftermarket and how does it apply in the valve maintenance market;
- Getting to know the largest workshop dedicated to industrial valve maintenance in Latin America;
- How industrial control and safety valve maintenance works;
- Getting to know Axpr's Enki system.
Ready for more content? Let's dive in!
The aftermarket concept in industrial valve maintenance
The subject of valve maintenance can be a nightmare for many people because it is common for this process to end up causing communication gaps, delivery delays, and even process failures after service.
It was precisely to reduce the recurrence of these types of situations that the aftermarket emerged. This English term has been reinvented by various sectors, including the industrial valve maintenance sector.
We can simplistically say that the aftermarket is the reconstruction of the new experience, without the pain of the unknown. It ranges from providing genuine parts to customized services, always offering expertise and transformative digital products.
In this way, when performing maintenance on your valves, for example, you will have the guarantee that it will be done according to the original product specifications. Additionally, it will meet all the requirements for it to function as if it were a valve that has just come out of the factory.
In summary: The aftermarket is the way to deliver the best remedy for headaches when it comes to maintaining your industrial valves.
Companies that explore this concept in their daily lives have guaranteed customer satisfaction because they have the resources and expertise necessary to keep their clients' operations safe and efficient, regardless of the challenges they face.
In this scenario, Axpr stands out in performing industrial valve maintenance. Through scalable and innovative processes, with a wide portfolio of parts and trained professionals, we are innovating in these deliveries.
Additionally, we ensure transparency in all valve maintenance processes, allowing clear communication and support to address all your doubts. Learn more about our services below
Getting to know the largest workshop dedicated to industrial valve maintenance in Latin America
With the aim of conquering the global market for industrial valve maintenance, attending to each request with care and dedication, we have become the largest workshop dedicated to this service in Latin America.
We work to ensure that our aftermarket goes beyond post-sales, as from the initial contact, we offer all the support to identify the client's needs and how we can guide them to offer what they really need.
We are not only recognized for our service transparency but also for the efficiency of our delivery.
Check out in more detail below what the differentials of our maintenance services are.
Industrial Control and Safety Valve Maintenance
This service involves a wide range of activities, such as diagnosis and repair of valves. All repairs can be retrofit, rebuild, or original review service.
Regardless of what is being performed, everything comes down to inspection, fine-tuning, and testing, rigorously.
The PSV is the element that can cause immediate catastrophic damage compromising process safety for many different reasons, or simply, and even silently, cause significant losses due to uninterrupted leaks. These valves need to be precise, with selected, inspected components, and of course, rigorously tested. Did you know that our GTC certification is equivalent to NBBI/ASME?
Those who think that only documents are enough for safety valves to be in order are mistaken.
As for control valves, if not periodically repaired, they can bring huge financial losses due to variability in the quality of the final product, excessive consumption of inputs, and of course, with the eventual shutdown of a line unexpectedly, generating many losses, often irreparable.
In this way, we analyze the demands of this type of service to efficiently meet the most different scenarios in the industry. Learn below about our innovations and types of maintenance that we perform.
Valvscope for Control Valves
This technology is capable of making a precise diagnosis of the valve's health, ensuring that data on the equipment is available, especially for lines where digital positioners are not installed..
The information provided is essential for monitoring the vital signs of your valve, allowing you to know when it is the right time to maintain your equipment.
Field Maintenance for Safety Valves (In field)
It is not uncommon to find safety valves installed in hard-to-reach locations or welded to the pipeline. In these cases, it is more efficient to repair the valves in the field.
On the other hand, repairing control valves on-site is a privilege of installed bases that have access to original spare parts and good interchangeability of parts.
We perform this type of service with highly qualified professionals and a complete portfolio of spare parts.
Online Testing for Safety Valves (EVT)
Our online test has a double-action hydraulic device that is attached to the valve body and stem.
During this process, a combination of sensors monitors various parameters relevant to the valve's behavior. This data is presented in real-time graphs by crossing the following information:
- Data collected in the analysis;
- Calibration parameters;
- Valve construction technical standards.
After the complete test and calibration cycle, the information obtained is archived and related in the test report. This calibration certificate is made available to the client.
Additionally, this service is ideal if your certificates are about to expire because you will not need to stop the plant to update the document. Calibration can be done online, with trained professionals and equipment specifically designed for this purpose.
But if your valve is leaking, overheating, or if you believe it is losing calibration over time, it is probably time for repair.
Maintenance Stops Support
Also known as plant turnaround, this type of service is nothing more than scheduled occasions for maintenance of several valves, ensuring that the operation maintains its production volume and that operational costs do not rise during the next production campaign.
The process of stopping a plant is undoubtedly complex. This stoppage requires a lot of organization, preparation, and support from qualified teams with experience in the subject.
Therefore, we also offer pre-plant turnaround planning where we analyze various aspects, including inventory and spare parts audit , which certifies the quantity of spare parts you will need to have on hand for efficient maintenance during a shutdown.
As well as, we perform an installed base audit that surveys data on valve location, access needs, and vertical movement (scaffolding, cranes, etc.), as well as calibration data, case measurements, gasket types, among other information. Have you ever thought about having all this in hand to plan the next shutdown?
Finally, we can also mention that this type of service can be on-site, with a pop-up workshop set up within the plant premises, or in shop, with valves directed to one of our workshops, and this will depend on the client's needs and structure.
In addition to all these services, we have also created an innovative system that guarantees transparency and agility in valve maintenance, and we will talk about it next.
Enki System: Industrial Valve Maintenance allied to Technology
Perhaps one of the main customer pains at the time of maintaining their valves is related to the lack of visibility about the progress and what is being done piece by piece.
Can you imagine requesting a factory shutdown and being able to see in just a few clicks in real-time at which stage of maintenance your valves are? Now this is possible!
Thinking of alleviating any anxiety or headache involved in this process, we have created Enki, a monitoring system that informs the progress of your valve maintenance and gathers images, videos, and real-time information. Through it, factory shutdown managers can access online S-curve graphs that reflect the progress of the work.
Everything is done automatically, intelligently, and with the aid of cutting-edge technology, guaranteeing greater visibility, transparency of each process, and reducing any anxiety that our clients may have during their factory shutdowns.
Below, get to know our workshops spread across the entire Brazilian territory.
Authorized Masoneilan and Consolidated Repair Center
We are a qualified company to provide all the necessary support for the acquisition, selection, installation, and maintenance of your line's industrial valves, with the GTC (Green Tag Center)seal, a maintenance certification program granted by Baker Hughes for Consolidated safety valves.
We also have the MARC seal, a program that guarantees that workshops are certified for maintenance and repairs of different models of Masoneilan control valves.
In other words, we are recognized as workshops of the Masoneilan and Consolidated brands with technicians and equipment of transforming level!
In this way, our workshops have:
- Completely autonomous adjustment stations;
- Exclusive test benches;
- In-house machining structure in comfortably spacious manufacturing area.
In addition, our service has national coverage, with several workshops installed in strategic locations, in order to deliver the best experience, including logistical matters. Check in the image below which states we are located in.
We are ready to offer you the best experience in industrial valve maintenance!
Contact our team right now by clicking here and come and enjoy all the technologies and quality processes applied to our services!
