Craig Sears
Pulp Mill Maintenance Superintendent,
Eurocan Pulp & Paper Company.

TITLE
Using Preventative Maintenance To Eliminate
Production Bottlenecks

BIOGRAPHY
12 years with Pulp & Paper Industry as Millwright and Mechanical Engineering Technologist. He has held positions as Junior Engineer, Maintenance Planner, Maintenance Supervisor and Currently Maintenance Superintendent. Was with the 1st Canadian Submarine squadron posted to the Submarine Okanagan for 4 years. Originally from New Brunswick, East Coast Canada. Currently On the North West coast, Kitimat, British Columbia.

ABSTRACT
Eurocan Pulp & Paper is divided into 4 production Areas, Paper Mill, Pulp Mill, Power & Recovery, and the Outside Chip Unloading and Screening Areas. The Pulp Mill was the bottleneck with production averaging 1000 TPD of average quality pulp. Reliability of the equipment was less than satisfactory. Training, Planning, scheduling preventative maintenance, and KPI's were the keys to improved maintenance. In a two-year period the Pulp mill increased production to 1200+ TPD, improved quality, and is no longer the bottleneck.

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