What is an engineering study? How is it useful? Why should I pay for one? These are all great questions. First, at JCS, an engineering study is useful when a customer needs to identify a problem, or multiple problems within their systems in their facility. Paying for an engineering study, or engineering evaluation, allows an outside organization to come into your facility with a fresh perspective to look at the big picture. Whether trying to identify possible contamination points creating micro counts on a low acid aseptic line, identifying areas for improvement in yields, or even looking at ways to treat your product better during processing for improved quality; an engineering study brings the perspective of outside engineering experts to evaluate, provide data, and a detailed report to assist you to make the best business decision.
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Elements of a typical engineering study:
- Pre-meeting with customer
- Define problem statement
- Define the Schedule
- Identify existing documents, data and records to be made available to the study
- Travel to Site
- Interviews with key Corporate, Management, and Plant personnel regarding Operations, Maintenance, Quality Control, Lab Testing, Plant History, Process History, and Product History
- Documentation Review of
- Process Flow Charts
- P&IDs
- System Documentation
- P&IDs
- HMIs
- PLCs
- Instrumentation
- Electrical
- Any pertinent Production Records
- Any pertinent Sanitation Records
- Production Line Evaluation
- Observe Production Running
- Observe CIP and Sanitation
- On-Site Review Meeting at Plant prior to leaving
- Return from site
- Compilation of Study Data and Information
- Evaluation of Systems, and compiled data, with the Engineering Staff
- Generate any recommended P&ID process and CIP improvements
- Generate the Budgets for each recommendation
- Develop the Report, including:
- P&IDs with recommendations
- Recommended Improvements, including justifications and ROI strategy
- Any potential product improvements
- Budget for Changes
- Detailed Written Report
- Presentation of the Report and above documentation to the customer
At JCS, we provide engineering studies to our customers to help them with their business decisions. When a customer purchases an engineering study, they are the owner of the engineering and data that is generated in the project and report. The report provides a scope of work for the bidding process or in-house implementation if the resources are available.
At JCS, we offer up to a 50% rebate of the cost of the engineering study against a subsequent project to implement the recommendations of the study. Contact us to see how a JCS engineering study could be right for your facility.
