Maintenance costs cut with digital services

At the beginning of 2022, an old vacuum system with oil-lubricated rotary vane vacuum pumps was exchanged for 36 MINK vacuum pumps from Busch. Thanks to their dry operating principle, the Busch claw vacuum pumps do not require operating fluids in the compression chamber and operate nearly maintenance-free.

Johannes Kohne, technical manager at Emsland Frischgeflügel says: "Not only have we saved an unbelievable amount of time tending to the systems, but we have also saved 70% of maintenance costs. Specialists spending hours cleaning pumps and changing oil on the weekend is now a thing of the past!"

What's more, thanks to the state-of-the-art IE4 motors that drive the MINKs, around 274,500kWh of energy can be saved in one year. Another advantage was the 30% of the purchase costs that Emsland Frischgeflügel was refunded from the Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control (BAFA), which supports the conversion to state-of-the-art, energy-efficient technologies in Germany. Busch experts helped with the application for the reimbursement.

All 36 MINK pumps are fitted with OTTO, the digital service innovation from Busch, via which they permanently send performance data such as pump temperature, vibrations, and inlet pressure to the Cloud, which can then be accessed via PC, tablet or smartphone.

"How high the transmission oil temperature is, whether the inlet pressure is constant, how high the exhaust air temperature is – we didn't know all that before. And now, thanks to OTTO, we even have it on our tablet via the app," says Kohne. "And thanks to the excellent cooperation between our IT department and Busch experts, the installation in our system has also worked extremely well."

Emsland Frischgeflügel has also signed an Active Service Contract for maintenance with Busch. Through targeted, predictive maintenance, excessive wear and premature failure can be prevented; in the event of a problem, Busch technicians can also connect to the system remotely.

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