SKF MaPro tools and online lubrication solutions from SKF Zambia, in collaboration with SKF South Africa, is optimising maintenance practices at a processing plant as well as at six mills in Zambia.

SKF’s Regional Customer Experience Manager CEA Central and East Africa, Tonny Luwo, explains that the customer recognised that the maintenance practices at a plant they had taken over were not in line with the organisation’s high standards.

“Prompted by their longstanding partnership with SKF, they reached out to SKF Zambia for assistance.”

SKF shares a successful long-standing business relationship with the global food processing specialist’s South African and Zambian subsidiaries. Recent smart collaboration between SKF South Africa, SKF Indonesia and the South African subsidiary resulted in the optimisation of the customer’s plant on Johannesburg’s West Rand.

On the back of a maintenance gap analysis in 2023 at the acquired plant, the SKF Zambia team prepared a MaPro presentation recommending a list of some 25 SKF maintenance solutions tools, which was then presented, to the customer by SKF Authorised Distributor, METMIN Zambia.

“There is a direct correlation between poor maintenance procedures and premature equipment failure with all the associated costs of downtime and production losses,” asserts Luwo.