Resources

A stage-gate review of a food-factory block layout — material and personnel flow, hygiene zoning, expansion allowance and the services that constrain them.

Reference material for planning use only. Verify every figure and clause against the governing standards and your own site conditions before acting on it — contact PMG Engineering for expert consultation on your project.

46 checks across building fabric, drainage, product-contact equipment, openings and pest exclusion, hygienic services, and air and condensation control. Cites FSSAI Schedule 4, EHEDG Doc 8, ISO 8573 and IS 10500.

Reference material for planning use only. Verify every figure and clause against the governing standards and your own site conditions before acting on it — contact PMG Engineering for expert consultation on your project.

48 checks over the demand basis, steam, compressed air, refrigeration and chilled water, process water and effluent, and electrical power — for basic engineering and again before utilities are handed over for commissioning.

Reference material for planning use only. Verify every figure and clause against the governing standards and your own site conditions before acting on it — contact PMG Engineering for expert consultation on your project.

48 pre-audit checks over management commitment, the HACCP plan, prerequisite programmes, traceability and recall, supplier control and verification — the common ground across FSSAI Schedule 4, Codex HACCP, ISO 22000 and the GFSI-benchmarked schemes.

Reference material for planning use only. Verify every figure and clause against the governing standards and your own site conditions before acting on it — contact PMG Engineering for expert consultation on your project.

48 checks over the route from mechanical completion to verified production — commissioning planning, pre-commissioning, IQ, OQ, PQ and handover. Agree the gates before construction finishes, and hold them while it does.

Reference material for planning use only. Verify every figure and clause against the governing standards and your own site conditions before acting on it — contact PMG Engineering for expert consultation on your project.

How to choose between pasteurisation, ESL, UHT with aseptic filling, hot-fill and retorting — the four inputs that decide the route, the pack decontamination each implies, and the F₀ / B* / C* numbers that govern it.

Reference material for planning use only. Verify every figure and clause against the governing standards and your own site conditions before acting on it — contact PMG Engineering for expert consultation on your project.

Choosing a cleanliness class per zone, setting air-change rates and the pressure cascade, selecting filter grades to ISO 16890 and EN 1822, and specifying compressed air to ISO 8573-1 where it contacts product.

Reference material for planning use only. Verify every figure and clause against the governing standards and your own site conditions before acting on it — contact PMG Engineering for expert consultation on your project.

Establishing real demand, setting pressure, reading and choosing ISO 8573-1 purity classes, selecting dryers and filtration, sizing distribution and receivers — and the five decisions that set what the system costs to run for twenty years.

Reference material for planning use only. Verify every figure and clause against the governing standards and your own site conditions before acting on it — contact PMG Engineering for expert consultation on your project.

A fill-in worksheet for building a diversified utility demand schedule from a stated production basis, and comparing it against the capacity you are about to buy.

Reference material for planning use only. Verify every figure and clause against the governing standards and your own site conditions before acting on it — contact PMG Engineering for expert consultation on your project.

Map every flow through the factory — materials, people, waste, rework, equipment — against the hygiene zones it crosses, and register every point where two flows meet. The crossings are where contamination is designed in, and they are cheap to fix on paper.

Reference material for planning use only. Verify every figure and clause against the governing standards and your own site conditions before acting on it — contact PMG Engineering for expert consultation on your project.

A fill-in working set in the Codex sequence — scope and team, product description, the verified process step list, hazard analysis, CCP determination with critical limits, and the monitoring, corrective action and verification that hold them.

Reference material for planning use only. Verify every figure and clause against the governing standards and your own site conditions before acting on it — contact PMG Engineering for expert consultation on your project.

A fill-in worksheet for closing a factory water balance — intake and treatment, consumption by use and required quality, losses, effluent by stream, and recovery — with the balance check that shows whether a stream is missing.

Reference material for planning use only. Verify every figure and clause against the governing standards and your own site conditions before acting on it — contact PMG Engineering for expert consultation on your project.

A working spreadsheet that sums the envelope, infiltration, product, internal and defrost loads and converts them into the machine capacity to buy — in kW and TR — with the load split shown so you can see which component to design out.

Reference material for planning use only. Verify every figure and clause against the governing standards and your own site conditions before acting on it — contact PMG Engineering for expert consultation on your project.

Builds the business case line by line — labour, yield, rework, throughput, downtime, energy and maintenance — then returns simple payback, NPV and IRR, with a sensitivity grid on capex and benefit to test whether the case survives being wrong.

Reference material for planning use only. Verify every figure and clause against the governing standards and your own site conditions before acting on it — contact PMG Engineering for expert consultation on your project.