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Reference: MEC Optimize from Bosch provides Our service: fast, competent and close

high transparency to our customers

As part of expanding production, the Privatmolkerei Bechtel (dairy company) needed to renew their ▶ Over 100 boiler service experts in Germany
process heat supply. Their boiler system, with nearly 30 tons of steam capacity per hour, is one and Austria
of the first in the world with MEC Optimize. ▶ Boiler service in over 140 countries around
the world
▶ Over 100 CHP module service experts
The Bechtel dairy processes more than one million Another important optimisation aspect is the maxi-
kilograms of milk per day. Complex production struc- misation of the boiler service life. The most important
tures and energy-intensive processes require compre- influences here are the water characteristics and Our service team – always available, always on-site
hensive data analysis. This transparency is the basis of the ope rating mode – both are often neglected in
competitive production costs – decisive factors include practice. MEC Optimize not only serves as a digital Bosch Industriekessel
preven ting system failures and minimising energy con- boiler logbook but interprets the entered values and
sumption. Bechtel had already introduced an energy helps the operator to identify and correct conditions Service service@bosch-industrial.com
management system as far back as 2012. Since 2017, that promote corrosion or are even safety-critical. In 24-hour hotline Tel: +49 180 5667468*
the company has also been using the digital efficiency addition, the operating mode is analysed for incorrect
assistant MEC Optimize from Bosch. start-up, inefficient boi ler sequence control and too Spare parts spareparts@bosch-industrial.com
frequent boiler cycles. 24-hour hotline Tel: +49 180 5010540*
MEC Optimize is integrated in the boiler control and
records all data from the steam boiler, water treat- MEC Optimize also prevents production losses due to Your personal
ment, heat recovery facilities and other connected interrupted process heat: the permissible loads and on-site service www.bosch-industrial.com/searchcontact
plant components. The operating data is stored locally switching cycles are stored for all important compo- experts
for many years and evaluated via trend analyses. If nents. Based on the operating mode, the efficiency Bosch KWK Systeme
the fuel consumption increases, for example, due to assistant determines the state of the component,
excessive desalting rates or soiling in the boiler, the predicts the probable residual run time and helps to Service and service.kwk@de.bosch.com
efficiency assistant identifies and reports possible plan maintenance. The other plant equipment from spare parts Tel: +49 6406 9103-111 Bosch company
causes. At Bechtel, this is done through the company Bosch for feed water deaeration, heat recovery and Service region
network of connected PCs or via a WiFi hotspot in the automation rounds off the overall system and ensures * 0.14 Euro/min. from German land line; max. 0.42 Euro/min from mobile network. Service location
boiler house to the tablet of the boiler attendant. For low energy consumption. Different charges may apply for calls from mobiles and international calls. Service partner
defined cases, there is an option to send notifications
directly to the operator's mobile phone via the remote
maintenance system MEC Remote. 35 35