Equipment Reliability Improvement Projects

Solving Manufacturing’s Toughest Challenges

Following are examples of Equipment Reliability Improvement projects EFI Group has completed:

Redesign of barge unloading hardware including boom, trolley, turntable, and winch systems
Repair ball mill structural base
Investigate numerous large screening installations to improve maintenance and dust collection
Investigate rectifier cooling capacity and redesign circuit
Investigate transformer failures
Investigate and develop approach for improving liquid ring vacuum blower installations
Air slide system design improvement and flow control
Redesign of high temperature limestone transport conveying pipeline
Failure mode analysis of chilled roll system
Developed solutions for containing dust for fly ash loading into trucks
Conveying equipment design analysis to improve total product flow and equipment reliability
Numerous plant layout projects for packaging systems including sugar delivery systems and the configuration of structural towers and mezzanines.
Investigate and solve process problems for two large hydronic systems
Investigation and design solution for solids flow process problem for proprietary cryogenic grinding process
Equipment selection, line layout, and cost estimate for product conveying, case sealing, palletizing, and wrapping equipment
Root Cause Analysis of package overflow during filling of oriental sauces
Problem/Opportunity resolution on Rice Vinegar filling line resulting in 45% rate improvement
Technical Mediation between beverage manufacture and equipment supplier
Root Cause Analysis for particle contamination from RO discharge
Support FAT for Rotary Filling, Dosing and Capping Line
Support FAT for Multi-head Filling Line for Immunoassay reagents
Root Cause Analysis of Cap Over torqueing on reagent filling line
Model Microbiological Container Thermodynanics
Design and implementation of a custom manipulator
Design and implementation of a custom cable driven dumping cart for loading an extruder
Mechanical design of various fixtures as well as redesign of failed mechanical components
Installation of replaceable floor mounted rails
Design and implement modifications to reverse roll coating machines and liquid delivery systems
Evaluate paper unwind improvements for continuous process
Investigate wire forming problems for paint can handles
Develop swarf handling solutions for numerous horizontal trenches
Investigate numerous machine guarding improvements
Multiple steel coating line projects for expansion and improvements
Design and implementation of inert solids transfer system for mixers

We hired EFI Group to help us figure out a project and scope it, and I felt confident they would keep a keen eye on it. They had to deliver quickly and they did it well. They are especially good at project management when you don’t have the resources to do it internally. Reliability is the word I would use to describe EFI Group.

— Coatings Industry Professional

EFI Group is timely. We’ve had a lot of situations when we’ve been in a time crunch and they’ve responded very quickly. They are detail oriented and efficient. They’re a good group of people who also have a lot of strength in pre-engineering — the thought process to get to preliminary design and making sure we’ve investigated all the potential asks of a project to ensure we didn’t miss anything. They have great attention to detail up front which is very important to any project because having that detail-oriented deep dive into the pre-engineering phase sets the stage for the success of the rest of the project, making the process smoother and making it much easier to keep the project on schedule and on budget.

— Mike Quigley, Engineering & Maintenance Manager, Food Industry

I’ve worked with EFI Group for a while, so I know they have a good, knowledgeable staff. We know we’re going to get the results from them we expect. From my interactions with all the different EFI team members I’ve worked with, I know they have knowledge across many industries. Equally, I never have to follow up with EFI Group and, in some cases, they keep me on track.

— Ryan Fredsall, General Manager, Pacer Minerals LLC

We view EFI Group as a team that can dimensionalize our capability to execute projects. We can articulate what it is we want to do and they can take that input and run with it without much intervention from us. They’re able to move a project along independently and only engage us when it’s time to bring us up to speed or get more input to drive a project to conclusion. That’s one of the reasons I view them as an excellent contractor.

— Environmental Engineering Industry Professional

EFI Group has good engineers and good customer service. We know when we get an EFI engineer on a project, we’re going to a get a good job from them and it’s been a productive relationship for both of us — I genuinely like the people.

— Corporate Director, Project Management in Food & Flavors Industry