Octopus to provide maintenance services to cement industries

KARACHI: The five-year contract marks Octopus Digital’s entry into the construction sector. Cement, a crucial ingredient of the Construction Sector, is experiencing a dramatic boom in Pakistan.

Octopus Digital has made an agreement of Rs 120 million with the cement industry for ‘Plant Wide Controls Maintenance’ encompassing end-to-end Operations – Raw Material to Finished Product. Designing, Build, Testing, Commissioning, and Support of End-to-End Automation Infrastructure. The company will provide five-year guaranteed support services with warranty, Scheduled, Unscheduled, and On-Call Corrective and Remedial Maintenance Support, the company statement said here on Monday.

The national local cement consumption is expected to have a CAGR of 7 percent till the year 2025 taking the local count to 65 million tons per annum.

One challenge for cement manufacturers during this period of growth would be to control costs due to rapidly increasing coal prices.

Octopus Digital will play a critical role in helping the cement plant operations become efficient and cost-effective through its state-of-the-art decision support system (DSS).

Octopus Digital will deploy its DSS with Real-Time Dashboards and Cloud Integration and Reporting capability to deliver key insights on complex data to assist every user throughout the organization achieve operational optimization and modernization.

The duration of the service agreement will be from November 2021 till November 2026. Octopus Digital Limited has extensive experience and expertise in Maintenance and Support services.

The company partners with leading global OEMs to ensure best in class industry solutions for its customers.

Recently registered at PSX, Octopus Digital helps businesses digitalize their manufacturing, supply chain, and financial workflows backed by strategic and operational maintenance support services in the US, Middle East, and South Asia.