Equipment checks
Specialized service technicians of SMS group record the status of the plants coordinating the results directly on-site with HMT. Finally, HMT receives a detailed report with servicing and repair recommendations, and if necessary an adequate spare parts offer or a modernization advice.
Alignment checks
The whole geometric alignment of the extrusion press is checked by specially trained service technicians
Hydraulic and control optimization
To make sure that plant productivity is maintained on a permanently high level, hydraulic and control optimizations have to be carried out regularly.
“The workflows in our maintenance department are focused on product quality, productivity and production reliability. We are consistently working on an improvement of this situation. To achieve this, we have developed a customized service concept with SMS group. With its technical expertise, SMS group is the perfect partner supporting us in planning and implementing these measures. We look forward to master this challenge together as team with SMS group,“ said Christian Schwarz, General Manager at HMT. Apart from the 18-MN GIA extrusion press, HMT has also been operating a HybrEx® extrusion press from SMS group since 2014 with a nominal press force of 25 MN. As the first company worldwide, HMT has changed over to the new extrusion press generation. HMT is one of Germany’s cutting-edge extrusion companies operating a successful extrusion plant with a broad spectrum of extruded quality profiles und accordingly versatile further processing.