Establishment of design criteria for regulatory compliance such as FDA, USDA, and EPA.
Start Your Project Off Right
Our process engineering approach is a methodical sequence starting with conceptual design. This evolves into a preliminary design, then to procurement, final engineering, construction, startup and commissioning, and final documentation. These steps result in a naturally evolving design that becomes more defined as it progresses, changing from rough order of magnitude scope of work and project definition through final detailed design where every entity is known.
Preliminary Design
Provides refined process design incorporating stakeholder input from your plant teams (Production, Maintenance, Sanitation, Quality/Food Safety, Safety, etc.) and the development of more accurate general arrangements, critical elevation views, preliminary P&ID’s, process flow rate / loss balancing, utility requirements, general pipe routing, specifications, refined project cost estimate, and preliminary project schedule.
Your Process Comes First
During the phases of design, we work with your team for on-site information gathering, defining the project goals and timelines, identifying obstacles, and running workshops with your team to determine final agreed upon process requirements as well as how to plan for future expansion and improvements.
The above steps are the backbone for a multi-disciplinary engineering team to design a modern food plant that is focused on the process itself as the most important deliverable. Covert Engineers, Inc. believes that the process must come first with buildings, utilities, and other elements designed to support that process to ensure that the final food product is the safest and best that it can be. Once a safe and efficient process is established, we can wrap a building around it and design the support systems to make make it the best possible work environment while meeting the client’s labor, energy/water, and production efficiency requirements.
Moving Forward
The above activities provide the fundamental basis for development of the total project including…