Maintenance & Support

Support for equipment already in service.

Maintenance work on industrial equipment is planned around the time the machine can be stopped. Beck & Pollitzer carries out planned maintenance, shutdown work, repairs and specialist modifications on equipment that is already in service, from single assets to complete production lines.

Manufacturers such as Elval and SSAB have used our teams for shutdown maintenance and revamps. On a separate project, in one week on glass-manufacturing equipment, our team repainted nine heating and 21 cooling chambers, replaced worn conveyor components and completed 3,250 project hours.

Work can be booked as a single intervention or as a recurring shutdown programme.

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Shutdown, repair, modification and support

The work below covers planned intervention, repair, modification and technical support for machinery already in service.

Planned maintenance & shutdown support

Planned interventions are scheduled into shutdown windows or other periods when equipment is released from production. On a multi-contractor site, work zones, movement routes and task sequence are agreed up front, with isolations, permits and supervision planned through our shutdown work-zone control and supervision.

Planned machinery maintenance
Shutdown maintenance support
Millwright and mechanical fitter labour
Work-package and resource scheduling
Repeat annual shutdown campaigns
Post-maintenance handover

Inspection, repair & component replacement

Maintenance work includes inspection of mechanical components, replacement of worn or damaged parts and corrective work found during the stoppage. Fault finding and accuracy checks, including ballbar testing on CNC machines, are part of the scope. Where dimensional checks or alignment verification are needed after repairs, our measurement and verification team can support them.

Mechanical condition checks
Fault finding and diagnosis
Bearing, roller, shaft and belt replacement
Drive-train component replacement
Roller re-levelling and alignment
Heat-resistant repainting of chamber surfaces

Machinery modification & retrofit

Existing machinery is modified to suit a revised process, a replacement component or a changed site condition. Shutdown scopes have included loader rail modifications, new overhead conductors, removal of redundant cabling and replacement of casing and spare parts on production lines. Where several work areas and subcontractors run at once, coordination of simultaneous work areas and subcontractors keeps them to the shutdown schedule.

Specialist machinery modification
Mechanical alterations and retrofit work
Equipment and robot replacement
Supporting steelwork modifications
Redundant cabling and services removal
Reinstallation following modification

Ongoing technical & operational support

Support can continue after installation or a major project where the client needs extra engineering resource around operating equipment. This can include maintenance assistance, verification checks and defined follow-on work. Where the requirement becomes a new installation or a major equipment replacement, the work moves to our installation and commissioning teams.

Post-installation maintenance support
Follow-on mechanical support
Defined verification checks
Site-based technical assistance
Planned follow-up interventions
Support during production changes and upgrades

Wider maintenance & support services

The scope can be a single repair or a multi-week shutdown campaign across several machines.

- Industrial maintenance services
- Machinery maintenance support
- Mechanical maintenance
- Plant maintenance support
- Production-line maintenance
- Conveyor maintenance support
- Machine repairs
- Industrial equipment repair support
- Summer shutdown services
- Plant shutdown labour
- Shutdown project supervision
- Roll exchange and replacement
- Defined maintenance work packages
- Machinery upgrades
- CNC machine maintenance
- CNC machine accuracy checks
- Re-commissioning after maintenance
- OEM machinery modifications

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What types of industrial maintenance can Beck & Pollitzer support?

Planned mechanical maintenance, shutdown work, inspection and component replacement, fault finding, specialist machinery modification and follow-on support for equipment already in service. The work package is set by the machinery, the site and the time available.

Can maintenance work be carried out within a fixed shutdown?

Yes. Work is grouped into a defined package, with labour, access and handover planned against the shutdown window. One aluminium rolling client had its mill rolls exchanged within six days during each winter shutdown, repeated for four consecutive years.

Do you maintain CNC machines?

Yes. Maintenance support can include fault finding, accuracy checks such as ballbar testing, and the decommissioning and re-commissioning of CNC-controlled machinery and production lines.

How is work coordinated when several contractors share the site during a shutdown?

Non-essential tasks are rescheduled, work zones are segregated and movement routes are agreed so teams do not overlap. A full-time safety coordinator can be on site for the duration of the shutdown.

Which trades carry out the maintenance work?

Teams are drawn from project managers, supervisors, millwrights, mechanical fitters, electricians, pipefitters, riggers and welders, depending on the work package. The comprehensive guide to millwrights: definition, role and importance.

What is the difference between maintenance support and machinery installation?

Maintenance & Support covers equipment already in service, including planned intervention, repair and modification. Machinery Installation covers positioning, assembly, connection and commissioning support for equipment being installed or reinstalled.

Planning maintenance or machinery modifications?

Tell us what needs attention and how long the equipment is stopped for. We will come back with a work package sized to that window.

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