The Importance of Professional Engineering Services in Customized System Solutions
In today’s economic climate, maintaining profit margins while meeting the demanding needs of your customers is a tricky puzzle to complete. Improving the technological profile of your operations can provide the key to improving efficiency and gaining a competitive edge.
Still, investing in new technology isn’t without risks. Professional engineering services help anticipate and mitigate these risks while maximizing the return on your investment.
What are Professional Engineering Services?
Professional engineering includes all the activities involved in designing, developing, optimizing, and maintaining systems and infrastructures. Engineers use a variety of technical, scientific, and mathematical principles along with expertise in industry standards and regulations to solve the complex problems that arise.
Professional engineers typically specialize in sectors such as mechanical and piping, civil and structural, and electrical and controls, and they work in every industry.
Engineering Higher Returns
Along with ensuring proper installation and operation of your equipment, professional engineers bring various benefits to every project. More than an additional cost, engineers often reduce the overall expense of major projects by avoiding costly errors, compatibility issues, and problems with regulations and compliance.
Professional engineers also keep costs down through the following:
- Improved Efficiency: Optimized processes, increased production, and reduced downtime.
- Enhanced Quality: Expert insights and solutions improve product quality, safety, and performance.
- Technology and Innovation: Experience with advanced tools and software leads to innovative solutions.
- Flexibility and Scalability: Customized solutions can be scaled depending on your needs and requirements.
Professional Engineers in Action
When the City of Chicago’s South Water Purification Plant needed a carefully coordinated retrofit for their pump systems, the Quad Plus engineers were up to the task. The primary challenge we faced was that the plant could not be shut down for any length of time.
Instead, we had to complete one system transformation every six weeks for nine systems originally installed in the late 1940s. Our engineers worked with the equipment supplier to design one package supporting a range of field currents. That way, one system could handle all motors, and all spare parts would be interchangeable.
We achieved our objective of a total retrofit with no shutdowns and streamlined and simplified the system so it no longer suffered from delays and downtime.
Planning for Success
Professional engineering means visualizing your industrial projects to anticipate and solve problems before they arise during installation and startup. For expertise in mechanical, piping, electrical, civil, and structural engineering for projects large and small, contact Jim at jwoulf@quadplus.com or call (920) 515-4155.
Quad Plus
1266 Home Ave Menasha WI 54952
www.quadplus.com
Sales Contact
Jim Woulf
(920) 515-4155
jwoulf@quadplus.com
