Factory Design & Layout- Plant Utilities & Services
- Energy Savings
- Equipment Selection
- Equipment Maintenance
- Lab & Factory Safety
Optimizing your assets to improve operational efficiencies, reduce costs and improve your business capabilities by using skilled facilities management practices is the trademark of successful and profitable companies.
Factory Design & Layout
The key objective of a "maximized" facility layout is one that delivers a high-quality, low-cost product quickly, while maintaining a safe and pleasant working environment. GEA is an industry leader with world wide experience in using Lean and Flow principles to deliver facilities that consistently provide these critical benefits to your business. GEA will deliver reductions in cycle time, lead time, inventory, capital equipment, space and lost time accidents. Correcting these common issues contributes directly to improved costs, productivity, efficiency, safety and flexibility. Our professionals are highly regarded world wide for assisting companies identify systematic, cost effective new plant layout or facilities rearrangements with product flow analysis specific to their needs - before large resource commitments are made.
Plant Utilities & Services
GEA will provide the expertise to bring you into conformance to code including OSHA, NEC and NFPA. GEA consultants have been part of the manufacturing world with 20 years or more of hands on experience. We offer rational cost effective solutions for common challenges such as power distribution and metering, fire protection and emergency systems, contracts with fuel and power suppliers, new plant site selections, new plant design and build and safety and security systems and procedures.
HVAC Systems - Energy Savings
Save energy dollars by reducing operating costs and resolving performance problems. GEA has AEE Certified Energy Managers who help businesses by providing factory energy audits with energy analysis, optimization of equipment and lights and harmonization of Building Energy Management Systems.
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Capital Equipment Selection
GEA experts can help you select new or used equipment that is right for the job, design, and fabricate fixtures to meet the process requirements, apply Single Minute Exchange of Die (SMED) principles and provide expert advice on budget preparation, de-commissioning and disposal as needed.
Plant & Equipment Maintenance & Reliability
Properly managing the facilities and related assets such as equipment, control schemes and maintenance will have significant impact on your manufacturing and business capabilities as well as operating costs. GEA professionals can provide the management expertise in equipment selection, installation, startup, reliability/maintenance, controls and retrofits that insure your continuing manufacturing success at optimized costs. We use CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management Systems) principles to employ a progressive series of common sense steps that synchronize purchasing, project management, planned/preventive maintenance, work order analysis and financial systems with established performance metrics to optimize your facilities performance expenditures.
Office, Laboratory & Factory Safety
Safety in the office or plant is one of the most critical and cost effective steps any company can practice. Cultivating a positive work place for employees by preventing complacency, improving communication and providing proper office/plant layout benefits everyone. GEA'S experts solve client's safety issues in a technically competent manner whether the challenge is safety in the laboratory, the factory or the office to reduce exposure to risk or the evaluation of chemical use to determine the necessary handling requirements and maximum exposure concentrations.