Equipment Reliability Improvement Projects
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
EFI Group is a manufacturing engineering firm practicing process engineering, process design, design engineering, manufacturing technology and engineering services. EFI Group is based in Baltimore, Maryland (MD) and serves clients throughout North America.