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