How an engineering study can help you

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.

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.