Drawing on TAKUMA Group technology and expertise to make possible stable plant operation
We have accumulated extensive expertise on plant operation by performing maintenance work on completed plants and having subsidiary Takuma Technos provide operation management services.
We also make full use of the TAKUMA Group’s technology and expertise in long-term comprehensive operation contracts such as DBO and O&M arrangements, allowing us to meet the needs of both customers and society over the long term.
The most recent plants are becoming more complex and diverse overall due to factors including rising environmental awareness, active use of waste energy, and the introduction of recycling technologies. Advanced operation management skills are necessary in order to manage such facilities in an appropriate manner.
TAKUMA works closely with subsidiary Takuma Technos to ensure facilities can maximize their functionality while operating in a stable manner by having engineers with advanced operation management skills carry out fine-grained, comprehensive assessments of facilities and then maintain them in an optimal state.
Annual maintenance is an essential part of ensuring plants’ ability to operate in a stable manner. Maintenance work demands advanced technical skills and experience because plants embody an array of expertise, and because the extent to which equipment deteriorates is affected by waste or fuel properties.
We make it possible for facilities to operate in a stable manner over the long term by formulating long-term maintenance plans based on the extensive expertise we have accumulated over time and by performing optimal, carefully timed maintenance work based on the results of detailed site surveys.
Our Solution Lab provides remote monitoring and operational support by monitoring plant status and operating conditions 24 hours a day. We improve the quality of plant operation while lowering life cycle costs by collecting plant operating and maintenance management data for more than 10 municipal waste treatment plants with POCSYS (our comprehensive support system for operation and maintenance management), analyzing and evaluating accumulated data, and providing feedback to operational personnel. It utilizes the latest Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), including the IoT, big data, and AI, to provide optimized solutions for customers and support to help ensure safer, more secure facility operation.
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Operation support |
| We provide field support for each facility through 24-hour remote monitoring of plant operating status. | |
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Problem-solving and research |
| We improve the quality of plant operation while lowering life cycle costs by analyzing and evaluating accumulated data and providing feedback to facilities nationwide. | |
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Personnel training and skills transfer |
| We use operational simulators to improve the operational skills of plant personnel and ensure those skills are passed on. |
We have collected plant operating and maintenance management data for more than 10 facilities with POCSYS, which we use to provide real-time integrated management of plant and equipment operating status.
By analyzing and evaluating accumulated data and providing feedback to operational personnel, we are able to improve the quality of plant operation while lowering life cycle costs.
To ensure plants delivered by Takuma can be used in a stable manner over the long term, our Supply Lab is developing after-sales service structures with extensive features in the twin areas of operations and maintenance, example by keeping special parts with long lead times on hand in our new warehouse, using ICT to make possible central management of information about part inventories at facilities we operate, and working closely with Takuma’s Solution Lab.
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Using ICT to make possible central management of parts and maintaining an inventory of special parts with long lead times to ensure safe inventory |
| We maintain an inventory consisting primarily of special parts with long lead times, and we’ve deployed a system that lets us ascertain the status of part inventory at each facility in real time. We’re able to ensure fast recovery when a problem occurs at a facility, even if the parts needed to effect that recovery aren’t on hand at the local site, by using this system to supply those parts from our Supply Lab or from another facility. |
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Delivering fast after-sales service in partnership with our Solution Lab |
| We’ve put in place structures that let us provide fast after-sales service to resolve issues and restore operations by providing information rapidly from our Solution Lab and maintenance departments to our Supply Lab when problems occur. | |
Explanation of Supply Lab begins at 7 min 5 sec.
