The pandemic has brought into focus what is important at both an economic level and societal level. The terms ‘key workers’ and ‘essential services’ dominated our vocabulary as the nation relied on the medical profession, retail workers, delivery drivers and workers in food and beverage production and pharmaceutical production, to name but a few.
It is easy to forget just how important these processing plants are and the crucial role they play in society. We witnessed first-hand the incredible speed of research and development to discover a vaccine and setup production lines to produce billions of doses for the world market.
Complex manufacturing processes
The engineering profession plays a key role at every stage of this process from developing and producing the technology that supports research laboratories to designing production on complex manufacturing processes and controlling the quality and flow of products through the process.
At Cronin Movers Group, our specialist teams were also essential workers during that period, providing valuable support to the Irish engineering profession as they supported processing plants in the pharmaceutical and food and beverage industries. Our highly experienced teams have been providing essential services in transporting, rigging, offloading and final positioning of processing equipment and plant infrastructure in manufacturing plants for more than 30 years.
Our team is fully trained in operating in cleanroom environments and undertake extensive planning and risk assessments on every equipment move to minimise disruption to production and ensure safe operations onsite.
In the manufacturing industry, there is a continuous drive towards the smart factory and Industry 4.0, the fourth Industrial Revolution. This is the digital transformation of manufacturing integrating data with new technologies and analytics, combining AI and machine learning into production facilities to provide increased connectivity across operations to allow for better decision making.
Digital technologies
These digital technologies will not only lead to increased automation, predictive maintenance, self-optimisation of process improvements but will also facilitate production modelling in a virtual production environment.
As a result, there are significant developments in processing plant and equipment with manufacturers investing in upgrading plant and equipment. Swapping out production processing equipment requires precision planning as every minute of lost production time is so expensive.
At Cronin Movers we have invested in the latest machinery moving equipment including truck-mounted cranes, synchronous hydraulic jacking systems, MTC Power Attack units, multidirectional transport robots.
We have just taken delivery of the only 25,000kg Electric Pick and Carry Crane in Ireland. All of this is investment is to ensure we can deliver an efficient onsite service for removing old equipment from production environments and repositioning new equipment onsite, ready for technicians to complete the installation.
Our team can also support manufacturers to move entire production lines or specific pieces of equipment to sister sites globally. We build bespoke crates onsite to ISPM15 standards, for the safe packing of specialist equipment for transportation which can be arranged by our freight forwarding team by road, sea or air.
We are also experienced in installing moisture barrier protection to PP007 standards, which can be critical for equipment used in both the pharmaceutical and food and beverage industry.
As engineers plan their plant upgrades on their journey towards a smart factory our machinery movers team will support them to implement these changes in the processing plant. Our team at Cronin Movers have the skills, experience, specialist equipment and attention to detail to support engineers in getting new equipment into the final position and minimising disruption to the production environment.
Alan Jordan, project manager, Cronin Movers Group
https://croninmovers.com/engineering-support/