A true understanding of machine and equipment performance is the key to a safe, high-quality, and efficient process. Our team performs comprehensive machine and equipment audits including digital machine mapping. The result is a detailed service assessment with feedback, recommendations, and project justification.  

Properly maintaining and repairing equipment improves safety, machine uptime, quality, and return on investment. Collaborating with your team, we customize preventative maintenance and repair contracts. Our team will recommend, perform, and manage preventative maintenance programs and repairs using only Kadant Solutions Genuine Parts.

Yankee doctors operating at maximum efficiency is crucial to the success of any tissue operation. The field service technician will inspect all mechanical components including mounting brackets, bearings, journals, doctor structure, blade holder, levers, air cylinders, oscillation, and other equipment. Also, the blade angle will be adjusted to your specific application and the blade holder profile will be checked, and necessary adjustments made to ensure a proper blade-to-surface fit. A full report including service details, before and after profile diagrams, and recommendations for improved performance will be provided after each service.

Onsite supervision and technical support for capital equipment installations will ensure your investment in new equipment is installed correctly and meets the needs and expectations of your mill.

Our turnkey services offer tailored mechanical maintenance and project execution, particularly for mills facing resource constraints and manpower shortages. By supervising every aspect directly at customer sites, we assume full ownership of the work, ensuring it's completed to KSD standards—accurately, on time, and properly. This comprehensive solution spans from routine upkeep to executing major capital ventures, all designed to boost operational efficiency and dependability. Our methodical process, from the initial planning to the final handover, guarantees precision and a commitment to excellence, aligning with customer expectations for impactful outcomes.

Education and training are the foundation for maintaining a safe environment, high-quality product, and efficient performance of mill equipment. Our field service team can provide custom, onsite, remote, and equipment-specific training.  

The kConnect series of products and services offer intelligent monitoring of equipment. This smart-connected technology provides insights for preventative maintenance plans and predictive monitoring.  

The Kadant Access Portal provides access to a comprehensive suite of process management tools. Keep track of action items, quotes, service reports, drawings, and orders for machines throughout your facilities. View maps of machinery, as well as details regarding the grade and any pertinent status information.

The kConnect blade cabinet provides a smart-connected solution for doctor and roll cleaning blade storage and inventory management all in one. The kConnect blade cabinet creates one, compact place to store blades while using RFID technology to track inventory and automatically order replenishment consumables when the stock is depleted to the mill’s minimum levels. Each blade box is marked coinciding with the machine maps to make tracking blade changes simpler and safer.

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Benefits

The M-clean PRO with kConnect offers intelligent monitoring that leads to insights about preventative maintenance and predictive monitoring for the system. The kConnect series uses a variety of sensors incorporated into the M-clean PRO for monitoring and analysis. The data collected can be used to optimize preventative maintenance to improve performance and reduce downtime.

Kadant Solutions provides general guidelines for how long parts and components should last; however, tapping into the kConnect sensors attached to the M-clean PRO allows for more precision with preventive maintenance. Over time, the intelligent system will enhance optimization of the timing of preventative maintenance, reducing operating costs.