Customer Hotline

A key component of our service is the free customer hotline as the first line of support and for troubleshooting. Employees with years of experience, working in an experienced team, ensure immediate help on the phone for your issues:

• Free initial advice by phone for faster troubleshooting and debugging
• Fault analysis using a secure VPN data connection
• Service hotline for spare parts
• The design documents for your machine are used

Free initial advice by phone for faster troubleshooting and debugging
Packaging Machines für Consumer, Food & Beverage sowie Pharma-Verpackungen

Service Technicians

We will send out service technicians to your plants from our Bekum sites in Germany, Austria and the USA: Our on-site service allows us to provide you with support in the event of repairs, exchange of parts and maintenance of your production plant. Mechanical and electric defects and malfunctions are pinpointed and solved immediately. Our service technicians guarantee short repair periods and keep downtimes to a minimum, our spare parts service providing spare parts quickly. You'll always be on the safe side with our on-site service:

• Fast fault detection and solution
• Faultless production start-up
• Guaranteed functional and production reliability
• Rotation modules available for purchase as optional extras

Fast troubleshooting on site
Economic Line to produce inexpensive packaging

Spare Parts

Time is money – and this is also true of spare parts. With experienced, highly qualified and regularly trained employees in the BEKUM plants, we can ensure a professional and highly responsive spare parts service – in more than 100 countries around the world. Our logistics also ensure optimal parts availability with effective availability, so that original spare and accessory parts can be delivered within the shortest possible time. Reasons to use original spare parts made by BEKUM:

• Operational reliability due to original spare parts
• Functional reliability due to accuracy of fit
• Investment security for your plant
• Guarantee on spare parts

Optimal parts stock with effective availability
Operational reliability due to original spare parts

Upgrading & Conversion

Are you unable to find the solution for new production requirements on an existing machine? The conversion of Bekum machines for new article sizes and production requirements is part of our daily business. Whether a change of materials, angular calibration or an increase in throughput, we are happy to advise you if you are wondering which options are viable for you when it comes to changing formats by means of retrofits, conversions or modernisation – all you have to do is ask!

Changing formats by means of conversions or modernisation
Conversion is part of our daily busines

Retrofit

Only the best for a used Bekum to boost productivity and economic efficiency to the latest standards and allow the continued use of tried-and-tested machines. A Bekum retrofit with new control and drive technology can push even older Bekum machines to a substantially better performance and level of precision.
Advantages of new control and drive technology for tried-and-tested Bekum machines:

• Extension of the machine service life
• Production reliability thanks to reduced idle times and downtimes
• Quality improvements due to better reproducibility
• The latest drive and control technology
• Manufacturer's guarantee on the full retrofit
• Retrofit at your production site, or at Bekum

Cost savings of up to 60% compared to a new investment
New Bekum heads can be part of a retrofit!

Preventive Maintenance

With our maintenance contracts we offer production safety. Experienced maintenance and service teams will ensure that scheduled maintenance is carried out effectively, and adapted to your blow-moulding machine and requirements to ensure technical availability. Planned machine inspections and adherence to maintenance cycles ensure production reliability of your investment due to

• High operational reliability due to regular inspection and high-quality system maintenance
• Minimal idle time due to optimal maintenance intervals
• Reduced costs due to efficient maintenance strategy
• Long-term value retention of your investment

High operational reliability due to regular inspection
Scheduled maintenance is carried out effectively

Remote Maintenance

Travel times for service technicians cost time and money. Some of these costs can be avoided by taking advantage of our remote maintenance services. Bekum offers an encrypted and user-friendly remote maintenance concept for Bekum machines. A Bekum service workplace is connected to the machine by means of a Cloud application using an encapsulated, VPN-encrypted tunnel. Security is ensured by disconnecting the machine network from your company network. This allows us to provide you with help quickly, inexpensively and using logged service access.

Quickly, inexpensively and using logged service access
Packaging machines with remote maintenance

Prototype Sampling

Sampling prototypes – plus test specimens and taste samples – is possible on our laboratory machines, which are designed for versatility. This allows you to produce small production runs inexpensively as specimens and for test purposes with the aid of our specialists, who are trained in process technology. We are also happy to provide you with support with the subsequent examinations and quality tests.

Consulting by our process-engineering trained specialist staff
Flexible laboratory machines for small runs, cost-effective for trial and test purposes

Training & Training Courses

Good training forms the basis for knowledgeable and skilled use of your blow-moulding machine. By learning the right operations and know-how, your employees can ensure an optimal production set-up, maintenance and repair of your investment. We can give you this knowledge – individually and effectively, with a practical orientation!

• Individual training structure
• Examples of problems based on practice
• Expert know-how right from the source
• Training courses at your company, or at Bekum
• Also for maintenance and repair services

Training courses at your company, or at Bekum
Individual training structure

Augmented Reality Service

In the event of a malfunction, it is particularly important to identify the cause quickly in order to initiate solutions to remedy the situation. With the help of augmented reality smart glasses, our remote experts see live what you see on site and can quickly and efficiently record errors and causes of malfunctions with you to help solve the problem. They explain and show what actions need to be taken to solve the problem faster and with less potential for error.

New augmented reality service with the help of smart glasses
Our remote experts see live what you see on site

Relocations

Bekum is a competent partner for machine relocations.
We create a detailed project plan with you and implement it for you. This includes the plant inspection, dismantling, packing, transport, installation at the new location, and recommissioning.

Bekum is a competent partner for machine relocations
Installation at the new location, and recommissioning

Service Contracts

Keeping your Bekum machines running efficiently is the basis for your competitiveness. Our modular service contracts can be tailored to your individual needs. Bekum's modular service contracts ensure fast, efficient assistance and high system availability.
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Our modular service contracts ensure a high level of plant availability
Secured competitiveness thanks to service contracts

Do you have any questions?

We are available for you from 7:30 am to 4:30 pm at our office! Afterwards our hotline is reachable until 10 pm!





Manfred Behrends
Manfred Behrends

Technical Service Manager
+49 30 7490 2307
m.behrends@bekum.com