Equipment Condition Assessment for Industrial Facilities

sanitary design requirements prevent standard sensor mounting methods and require food-grade materials in the process zone. In this environment, equipment failures cause product contamination, batch holds, recalls, and audit non-conformances. Our multi-technology baseline condition evaluation program specifically targets sanitary pumps, mixers, homogenizers, fillers, refrigeration compressors, and packaging line drives — the assets where early detection has the greatest impact on production yield and food safety compliance rate. We also account for frequent washdown, CIP cycles, and temperature extremes between cooking and cold storage zones, adapting our measurement approach to maintain data quality despite these operating conditions.

Yes. Food & Beverage facilities must comply with FDA 21 CFR Part 110/117, FSMA, HACCP, and SQF/BRC audit requirements. Our multi-technology baseline condition evaluation program generates the condition documentation needed for haccp prerequisite program documentation proving equipment reliability supports food safety. Beyond compliance, the condition data drives measurable improvements in production yield and food safety compliance rate by converting unplanned failures into scheduled repairs. Most food & beverage clients see meaningful reductions in product contamination within the first 12 months of program implementation.

Sub-sectors with the highest equipment criticality and longest production runs. Within Food & Beverage, that's typically operations running large rotating equipment 24/7 on tight production schedules. Smaller Food & Beverage operations with mostly batch work and shorter equipment populations get less leverage from Equipment Condition Assessment and may be better served by basic preventive maintenance with on-call diagnostic support.

Lead findings on a typical first-year Equipment Condition Assessment program at a Food & Beverage site cluster around undocumented as-found condition. In Food & Beverage specifically, those failure modes show up faster because of sanitary constraints, daily CIP, washdown corrosion. Lead time before functional failure runs baseline reference — long enough to schedule the repair into a planned outage rather than firefighting at 2 a.m.