Major Manufacturing Capacity Expansion in Live Production Testing Environment

Understanding our client, we translated their needs in to a fully robust, multi-faceted plan to increase production capacity and meet organisational goals.

Our client is a world leader in production testing systems that helps in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of a range of health conditions. With its superior systems and continued growth expansion was required to fulfil customers’ needs and the Long Rang Plan for the next 5 years.

Dolmen Engineering was tasked with analysing the current production capacity and to come up with a robust plan that can provide sophisticated technical solution, meet corporate budgets and integrate into a live environment without impeding production.

Innovation Challenge

Clearly comprehend business requirements in order to put a robust technical solution in place and maintaining corporate budgets in a brown field site. Key challenges identified included;

• Integrate the new expansion into existing live production environments
• Determine a baseline by performing full analysis of the current Facility, Utilities and Process systems.
• Develop and gain corporate approval for a 5 year Long Range Plan (LRP)
• Prioritisation of projects and conduct Front-End Planning (FEP) to determine
• budget accuracy, schedule, constructability and determine risk to live projects.
• Gain full financial approval

Detailed Design and Implementation

The basis of the initial design work was completed as part of the FEP process. This followed with Detailed Design, Procurement, Construction Management & Validation also executed.

Scope of Work:

• Facility
• Clean/Dark Utilities
• ISO 5/8 Cleanrooms
• Process Systems

Delivered:

• New Micro Laboratory
• Upgrade & expansion of existing Diagnostics Laboratories
• New Filling & Packaging Lines
• Full upgrade & expansion of Clean/Dark Utilities
• Expansion of solution manufacturing area
• Waste Management Systems Upgrade

Exceptional results

A challenging and worthwhile journey with the client, growing and developing relationship the experience and demonstrating our trust and reliability with the client deepening a long term relationship.

• Collaboration and learning
• Innovative problem solving delivering in live environment
• Transforming business needs into fully functioning successful execution
• Delivering to time and to budget

A key element to Dolmens success on client side projects is our strong representation from a client background, fast tracks jargon busting and provides clear understanding of pain points.