Site readiness checklist before contractor mobilisation
What a plant should have ready before a contractor's crew arrives at the gate — and what it costs when these are missing.
Knowledge centre
Checklists and planning guides for the people who actually run these projects. Written from execution experience, not from a marketing brief.
Contractor Management
Industrial Fabrication
What to send before asking for a fabrication quotation
Why fabrication quotations vary so wildly between vendors, and the six inputs that make them comparable.
Machine Installation
What must be frozen before a machine installation starts
Eleven decisions that have to be closed before the machine reaches the gate. Every one of them costs more to change afterwards.
Imported machine installation — a checklist for Indian plants
What changes when the machine arrives in containers from Japan, Taiwan or Europe, and what to arrange before it lands.
Sizing a vertical injection moulding machine for insert moulding
Why the tonnage figure is the last thing to decide, not the first, when the part has an insert in it.
Machine Shifting
A 20-point checklist before you shift a heavy machine
The twenty things worth confirming before a heavy machine moves inside an operating plant — most of which have nothing to do with the crane.
Plant Modernisation
When to change a screw-tip set, and what a worn one looks like
Shot weight variation that behaves like a process problem is often a mechanical one. Here is how to tell.
Plant Utilities
Utility relocation planning checklist
Moving compressed air, water, power or process lines inside a plant that cannot stop — the questions to answer before anyone opens a line.
Project Planning
How to avoid scope gaps in an industrial BOQ
Scope gaps are not found during tendering. They are found on site, at the worst moment, and somebody always pays for them.
Why the cheapest industrial quotation often costs the most
Not an argument for paying more. An argument for comparing quotations that actually cover the same work.
Safety & Execution
Planning cranes, hydras and forklifts before shutdown work
Lifting equipment is the most common single cause of shutdown delay. It is also the easiest to plan properly.
Shutdown Planning
How to plan a 48-hour industrial shutdown
A shutdown is a fixed-duration project with a hard finish. Here is how the plan is built, and where the hours are usually lost.