Five ways we can help you build resilience into your facilities

In any industrial environment, unexpected challenges can occur at any time. The secret to improved resilience is to put measures in place to ensure that your operation can respond quickly to such challenges, overcome them and avoid unplanned downtime.

At AIS Eurelo, we work with clients across sectors and borders to help them deliver their resilience strategies, mobilising the resources they need to tackle any challenges quickly, safely and cost effectively. These are the top five ways that we could help you build resilience into your facilities too.

1. Enhancing your storage and stockholding

Over the past year, manufacturing sectors have faced complex challenges around supply chain reliability, logistics and price volatility. As a result, there has often been a need to buy in materials ahead of need, and to store increased levels of stockholding in order to maintain supply chain reliability for customers.

At AIS Eurelo we can help operators to increase their storage capabilities by clearing redundant assets from existing buildings to make space for storage. We can also install racking, robotics and automated systems and revise building services to provide the right plant and equipment for storing specific goods and materials. Our end-to-end service means that we can plan and implement every stage of a storage or stockholding installation or refurbishment, including the method statement and risk assessment, phasing of works and implementation by our in-house team and wholly-owned lifting equipment.

2. Installing standby plant and services

Power outages, air handling unit failure or faulty mechanical plant can result in unplanned downtime if there is insufficient resilience in the facility. While BMS, EMS and fault monitoring systems are effective in providing an early warning of potential failure, it may not always be possible to fix plant quickly enough to avoid business interruption.

At AIS Eurelo, we have the expertise to lift heavy and sensitive plant into position and connect it to your building services. This means that we are not only able to help with asset replacement projects if an issue arises, but we can also help you build resilience by installing standby plant that will enable you to remain operational while the duty asset is repaired or replaced.

3. Installing additional production lines

In times of change and uncertainty, many operators need to be ready to expand rapidly to meet demand, while others have to be agile enough to diversify or adjust to evolving commercial conditions.

At AIS Eurelo, we have the in-house expertise, vehicles and lifting equipment to plan and implement production line installation projects with minimal disruption. Our teams can work with you to prepare the area and service connections in advance of the installation to ensure a fast-track installation and maximise the value of any downtime.

4. Realising redundant assets

Redundant assets taking up space in your facility could prevent you from responding quickly to change, while tying up capital that could be reinvested in your operation.

At AIS Eurelo, we can help you remove redundant assets to free up space. Our teams can decommission machinery and carry out service diversions where necessary so that other equipment can remain fully operational. We can also dismantle redundant machinery for you so that it can be removed from your facility without the need for heavy lifting equipment or modifications to your building.

Whether you choose to sell your redundant asset as a viable machine or dispose of it as scrap, we can help you manage the whole process and achieve the maximum possible yield, generating revenue that can be reinvested in your facility.

5. Rationalising sites

Sometimes the most effective way to improve commercial resilience for your business is to rationalise the number of facilities you are operating. This may involve moving equipment across locations, or even across borders, to optimise your assets and teams where you need them most.

At AIS Eurelo we can help with any relocation project; from a single machine to an entire factory. With teams and lifting equipment at our locations across Europe, we are ideally placed for relocation projects that require equipment moves across European borders and our project management expertise means we can plan your project with you, implementing them around your commercial and operational needs.

Responding to your resilience requirements

Resilience means different things to different operators; for some, it’s all about keeping production going, for others, it may be about aligning operations to commercial factors. Whatever your needs, our resources, geographical reach and experience means we can tailor our service around your requirements and help you achieve your goals efficiently and cost effectively.