What is OBEf?

Your Plants Overall Business Effectiveness as impacted by industrial fluid usage and disposal.

How your fluids are managed, maintained and chosen, can have a fundamental impact on your bottom line. OBEf looks at the net cost of fluid usage and disposal to drive plant efficiency up while managing fluid and waste costs down by taking a sustainable lean approach to process improvement.

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Increases OEEf:

Focusing on OBEf yields direct improvements by driving Process Availability, Performance and Product Quality up over time.

Engineered solutions reduces PM's by more than 75% increasing process availability, managed fluid condition reduces rework by over 50%, daily corrective actions based on data virtually eliminates incidence of rust.

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Minimizes Risk:

Managing to a control plan, minimizes the risks associated with fluid usage and disposal.

If your facility uses industrial fluids, there are significant health and safety as well as environmental risk associated with your operation. Cost effectively managing that risk is critical in today's highly competitive and litigious economy.

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Reduces Fluid Costs:

Managing the right fluids, the right way eliminates waste and delivers sustainable, optimised solutions.

Fluid choice, how they are managed on a day to day basis and the equipment needed to maintain condition over time all impact fluid costs. Focused and sustained expertize combine to deliver a best practices approach that drives costs down. This facility saw a greater than 40% reduction in their usage while significantly improving their overall process performance.

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Lowers Management Cost:

Defined non-core business process reduces the cost of management...

Specialized expertize combined with well-defined business process and the latest technology, reduces the management burden and associated labor. This client went from 4 full time technicians down to 1, through the implementation of the appropriate systems and methodologies.

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Reduces Waste Costs:

Waste is a significant cost and represents a significant liability to industry today.

The best way to reduce waste costs, is not to create the waste to begin with. By minimizing first and then ensuring that the remaining waste was being disposed of in a cost effective and responsible manner yielded an 80% cost reduction for this client.