Reliability & Maintenance Services

Protecting your plant's
performance

Achieve Overall Equipment Effectiveness through Online Reliability Services

The Reliability Fallacy

THE COST OF STAYING
REACTIVE IS TOO HIGH

Most cement plants agree that reliability matters. The real challenge is turning equipment insight into funded, timely maintenance action. Maintenance is not the burden. The missed opportunity is finding and prioritizing the work too late, before small events can be converted into planned action.

Reliability Is Shaped by Management, Not Just Maintenance

Production targets, budget decisions, and maintenance scope are connected. If plant leadership does not make room for earlier intervention, maintenance teams are left reacting after the risk has already grown.

Inspection Discipline Erodes Under Pressure

Inspections and condition reviews are often the first activities to slip when output pressure rises. That reduces visibility, weakens the planned routine, and makes preventive action harder to plan.

Late Action Shrinks the Gain Window

When developing issues are not addressed early, the repair scope expands, downtime grows, and the conversation shifts from planned improvement to urgent recovery.

Optimization leverage - earlier action moves plant performance.
The opportunity is using condition insight early enough to take effective action and protect uptime, quality, and operating stability.

Optimization leverage
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Early warning of critical failure modes

Early warning of critical failure modes

Identify cause in collaboration with the customer

Identify cause in collaboration with the customer

Prioritized preventive and corrective action

Prioritized preventive and corrective action

Lower unplanned downtime and longer asset life

Lower unplanned downtime and longer asset life

Stronger availability and maintenance effectiveness

Stronger availability and maintenance effectiveness

INTRODUCTION

FROM EARLY WARNING TO UPTIME & LOWER
COSTS

Reliable cement production already runs on condition data and scheduled maintenance. More uptime now comes from earlier warning on developing failure modes - and the OEM judgement to act on it. That is why sound reliability decisions draw on more than condition data. They need OEM understanding of equipment design, installed-base behaviour, process control, electrical systems, automation logic, and failure-mode patterns from across the global fleet. That knowledge sits with the engineers who design, automate, and support the equipment, sharpening the plant's maintenance routine when applied to real operating signals.

That's where Fuller's digitally driven reliability and maintenance services come in. Backed by 140+ years of cement-equipment and process experience across the full flowsheet, the service turns condition data into early warning and prioritised preventive or corrective recommendations your team can plan and execute. Global Remote Service, agreements, and add-on programmes carry the work that follows - helping reduce unplanned downtime, extend asset life, and sustain stable, high-performance operations at lower lifecycle cost.

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RELIABILITY & CONFIDENCE

PLANT RELIABILITY
AT RISK
  PROTECTED.

Plant reliability rarely fails for lack of sensors - it more often fails in the gap between signal interpretation and action. Even with strong instrumentation and well-run routines, unplanned events may still shape the month. What is missing is interpretation - which signal matters, on which asset, with what urgency, before the outage window closes.


Reliability & Confidence means closing that gap inside one connected loop. Each condition signal is validated against equipment design and installed-base experience, prioritized by urgency and consequence, and translated into a specific preventive or corrective step the plant team can execute. Sensor coverage and review cadence are calibrated to failure consequence and operating exposure - so protection scales with what each asset is worth to keep running.

Reactive Response

Reactive Response

Planned Intervention

Planned Intervention

Most maintenance plans only react once symptoms are obvious. ORS catches the signal upstream of the symptom, so the work is scheduled - not scrambled.

Fixed intervals

Fixed intervals

Condition-Led Timing

Condition-Led Timing

Scheduled maintenance still runs - ORS just shows which tasks to move, which to keep, and which to expand, based on how the equipment is actually behaving.

Signals without Context

Signals without Context

OEM Judgement

OEM Judgement

A monitoring app shows what changed. Fuller engineers know what it means on that equipment, in that process - and what maintenance step the plant should take next.

Isolated Services

Isolated Services

One Working Loop

One Working Loop

Sensors here, software there, advice somewhere else. ORS ties system, engineers, and recommendations into a single working loop so the plant team acts on one source of truth.

Online Reliability Services System

TURNING FAILURE MODES INTO MAINTENANCE ACTION

Detection starts with machine signals from critical assets. Condition sensors and process inputs are interpreted using Fuller's equipment-specific failure-mode expertise, where rule-based, condition-based, and AI/ML methods spot failure modes as they develop. What leaves this layer is not a raw alarm - it is a defined fault finding, ready for the Fuller service response. OEM expert advisors interpret the failure mode, monitoring applications keep it visible between visits, and detailed reports carry the evidence to maintenance action.

Data collection for detecting Failure Modes

Machine / Sensors - Instrument Cabinet.

Internet

Secure connectivity moves the data from site to the service layer.

Cloud Applications

Applications keep machine status and condition visible between visits.

Services

Fuller teams turn insights into service delivery and maintenance follow-up.

Expert OEM Advisory Service

See how Fuller links signals to potential failure modes, consequence, and the right maintenance response.

Applications & Reports

Application layers make equipment condition visible and turn Fuller review into action-ready recommendations.

Failure Modes
1

Condition Based/ Predictive Maintenance

Uses live sensor data and analytical methods to detect developing failure modes so maintenance can be planned before performance loss becomes operational loss.

2

Preventive Maintenance

Scheduled tasks applied at defined intervals. Condition insight helps plant teams confirm scope, timing, and urgency with better equipment visibility.

3

Reactive Maintenance Run-To-Failure

Accepted only where consequence is manageable or no earlier task changes the outcome. Better condition insight helps reduce unnecessary drift into this category on critical assets.

Kilns
Shell temperature anomalies
Live ring migration / shell ovality
Girth gear wear and misalignment
Hydraulic thrust and axial balance and more
Cross-Bar Coolers
Hydraulic drive force / pump utilisation
Roller torque / bearing temperature
Cooling air coefficient / pressure drop
System pressure / frequency anomalies and more
Vertical Roller Mills
Separator motor and bearing failure
Gearbox tooth wear and misalignment
Table tilting / unequal axial clearance
Drive-train structural looseness and more
Ball Mills
Girth gear wear, cracking, misalignment
Trunnion and pinion bearing condition
Slide shoe bearing monitoring
Eccentricity and backlash
ORS Coverage Across the Full Flowsheet

CONTINUOUS EVENT-SERVICE-ACTION LOOP

Once live, the Online Reliability Services loop supplements the plant's operations and maintenance routine. Fuller specialists review each event and translate it into a clear preventive or corrective recommendation - kept moving by a dedicated Service Account Manager through to action and follow-up. Each cycle sharpens the next: scope, thresholds, and targets adjusted as the installed base and plant priorities evolve.

Measurement Data

Measurement data is captured by condition sensors, process control systems, and vibration monitors.

Insights Applications

Applications keep you continuously informed about equipment status and condition.

GRSC / 24-7 Service Delivery

The Global Remote Service Centre ensures uninterrupted service delivery, 24/7 - with specialist event review on the agreed service cadence.

Service Account Manager

Keeps the maintenance service aligned with your agreed targets - across recommendations, reporting, and follow-up.

Project Management

Fulfils our commitment to deliver on promises - through installation, commissioning, and handover.

OEM Insight + Equipment Intelligence

OEM Insight + Equipment Intelligence

STRENGTHENING
  THE MAINTENANCE PROCESS

Hardware, data, and OEM judgement - three layers, one maintenance decision. Sensors on the asset. A secure data layer in your hands. Equipment precedent behind every finding. Separately, they are signals; together, they are reliability.

Your team keeps the data and the control. Fuller brings the OEM judgement that pure monitoring cannot - so what reaches your team is a plan, not just a reading. It strengthens the routines you already run - and the people who deliver it.

  • OEM review of events, failure modes, and operating context
  • Root-cause depth from Fuller equipment and installed-base knowledge
  • Recommendations aligned with the customer's maintenance process
  • Data access, integration, and service support that improve value over time

OEM judgement, applied continuously - that is what turns monitoring into reliability.

End to end support

SUPPORTING YOUR PATH TO MAXIMUM AVAILABILITY.
EVERY STEP OF THE WAY.

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Comprehensive Planning Meets Ongoing Service

Online Reliability Services runs as a managed service, anchored on the equipment that drives plant availability. From scoping and commissioning at the start through continuous event review and follow-up, Fuller engineers work alongside your team - across the full flowsheet, across the full agreement term. Your team runs the plant; Fuller carries the reliability decisions that shape it - supported by the broader maintenance services that follow through with the right actions.


With Fuller, the service compounds: every OEM expert review strengthens the maintenance process, every cycle sharpens the next decision

HOW ORS IS DELIVERED

Each cycle compounds plant value: earlier action on developing failure modes, sharper reliability decisions, and growing team confidence.

  • STEP 01

    Scope & Prepare

    Define monitored assets, interfaces, and success criteria before the system goes live.

    • Asset selection and criticality alignment
    • Sensor and interface planning
    • KPI and value alignment
    • Installation preparation

  • STEP 02

    Deliver & Commission

    Install, connect, and bring the ORS system into daily use with the right technical foundation.

    • Hardware delivery and installation support
    • System commissioning
    • Monitoring application setup
    • Handover into live service

  • STEP 03

    Review & Recommend

    Continuous event review and OEM interpretation that help maintenance teams plan earlier action.

    • Event monitoring and validation
    • Failure-mode review
    • Prioritized recommendations
    • Short-, medium-, and long-term actions

  • STEP 04

    Support Plant Execution

    Help plant teams translate ORS insight into planned preventive or corrective maintenance.

    • Remote troubleshooting
    • Maintenance coordination support
    • Inspection and follow-up guidance
    • On-site support when required

  • STEP 05

    Train & Grow Value

    Build team confidence in using ORS outputs and turning insight into measurable maintenance value.

    • ORS workflow training
    • Monitoring application guidance
    • Maintenance response routines
    • Continuous improvement reviews
Agreements + Maintenance Services

Agreements + Maintenance Services

TURN RELIABILITY DECISIONS INTO THE RIGHT MAINTENANCE
 SCOPE

Managing reliability across a cement plant takes a coordinated maintenance solution around the equipment, risks, and outage windows that matter most. ORS shapes the reliability decision; Fuller's maintenance services span operations and automation, following through with the right action - inspections, shutdown planning, site support, and add-ons that mean faster response, optimised automation, better-targeted maintenance, and lower lifecycle cost.

  • Maintenance Service Agreements tier to the plant - Healthcheck, Inspections, Smart Support, or Full Preventive / Predictive - across Fuller assets and selected non-Fuller assets where the monitoring scope and failure modes justify it.
  • PlantLine covers the automation layer separately - Proactive, Lifecycle, Cybersecurity, and Remote Technologies packages for ECS/ProcessExpert tuning, software/hardware currency, cyber protection, and remote access.
  • Specialist field services and Fuller Institute training add depth on demand - hot-kiln alignment, roller rebuilds (OK, ATOX, FRM), shutdown support, and training across maintenance, automation, process, and Pfister tracks. RCM programme and calcined clay agreements are available as linked offers.
  • Plant teams own execution and timing; Fuller backs each call with OEM interpretation, recommendations, and follow-up.

EXPERTISE ACROSS EVERY RELIABILITY DISCIPLINE

From a failing bearing to process drift, from shutdown planning to strategy - every reliability issue has a Fuller specialist path behind it. When uptime is at risk, Fuller connects the issue to the right expertise, service response, and strategy.

  • Assess & Diagnose

    Define failure risk, asset criticality, and maintenance priorities before issues become unplanned downtime.

    • Asset criticality assessment
    • Maintenance and reliability audits
    • Failure mode review
    • Baseline condition assessment

  • Engineering & Program Design

    Build the right maintenance framework with OEM-backed engineering, planning, and implementation support.

    • RCM programme development
    • Preventive maintenance planning
    • Shutdown scope definition
    • Implementation support

  • Online

    Digitally connected monitoring and remote support to detect developing risk early and guide timely maintenance action.

    • Online Condition Monitoring (OCM)
    • SiteConnect™ & PlantLine™
    • ECS/ControlCenter® & ECS/UpTimeGo™
    • Remote diagnostics

  • On-Site

    Field expertise to validate findings, support corrective action, and strengthen maintenance execution at plant level.

    • On-site inspections and troubleshooting
    • Production and maintenance assistance
    • Process audits and optimisation
    • Training and mentoring

  • Spare & Wear

    The right parts and wear strategy to keep critical equipment available, protected, and cost-effective over its full lifecycle.

    • Critical spares planning
    • Inventory management
    • Wear-protection and parts lifecycle strategy

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RELIABILITY THAT GROWS WITH YOUR PLANT.

Plant reliability is never finished. Assets age, fuels shift, priorities move, and the maintenance routine has to keep pace. Fuller's digitally driven reliability and maintenance services are built for that - a long-term reliability partnership that scales with your plant, your portfolio, and the goals your team sets.

From a single critical asset to coverage across the full flowsheet, every engagement starts with the same conversation: where reliability matters most, what your maintenance team already runs well, and where Fuller adds weight. The next step is short. The value compounds.

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