50 L stainless mixing system
Detail design of a 50 litre stainless steel mixing system — vessel, impeller and support frame — issued as fabrication-ready drawings.
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Core Plant Engineering
Process equipment design and detailing for fabrication
Vessels, skids, piping, panels and access structures, to ASME BPE, DIN 11864 and cGMP.
About Core Plant Engineering
Core Plant Engineering is the physical side of the practice. The measure of a finished package here is simple: a fabricator builds from it without sending a question back, and that standard sets how far the detailing goes on every deliverable.
Most of this work runs as the design partner behind system and skid builders. They win the fabrication order and hold the client relationship. Most of the manufacturers our equipment reaches have never dealt with us directly.
What we deliver
Core Plant Engineering
Process Vessel Engineering
General arrangement and fabrication drawings, nozzle orientation, and saddle and weldment detailing for jacketed and non-jacketed vessels.
Core Plant Engineering
Integrated Skid Systems
Skid layout, equipment integration, structural frame design and utility routing, delivered as one coordinated drawing package.
Core Plant Engineering
Process Piping Engineering
Routing, isometrics, plant modelling and utility integration, delivered as a coordinated package around vessels, skids and plant lines.
Core Plant Engineering
Control Panel Design
Panel general arrangement, wiring and schematic drawings, and instrumentation integration, detailed for the panel builder and the commissioning engineer alike.
Core Plant Engineering
Platform & Ladder Systems
Access platforms, walkways, ladders and their structural supports, engineered to fit the vessel or skid they serve rather than bolted on afterwards.
Core Plant Engineering
Cable Management Systems
Tray routing, power and signal segregation, and termination and gland schedules, detailed so the electrical contractor can pull cable without a site query.
Core Plant Engineering
Mechanical BOM, MTO & BOQ
Bills of material with SAP-aligned part codes, material take-off by grade and size, and mechanical BOQ formatted for tendering.
Core Plant Engineering
Simulation & Custom Components
Displacement and stress evaluation on a nominated component or structure, and custom component design where an off-the-shelf part does not fit.
Core Plant Engineering
2D & 3D CAD Design and Detailing
3D modelling, 2D detail drawings, and paper-sketch-to-CAD conversion, delivered as revision-controlled packages a fabricator can work from directly.
Core Plant Engineering
BIM & MEP Modelling
BIM and MEP modelling with clash detection, coordinating mechanical, electrical and plumbing routing against the structural model before it reaches site.
How we do it
Take in what you already have
A process datasheet, a P&ID extract, a reference drawing or a paper sketch.
YOU GETEngagement model
Agree the deliverables before the first sheet
The deliverable list, the drawing standard and the review checkpoints, all settled before anything is issued.
YOU GETMost Plant & Equipment work is delivered as the design partner to system and skid builders, running as a dedicated pod trained to your templates and review process, or on time and materials against an agreed scope.
Run it through designer, checker and approver
Every revision version-controlled, nothing shipping on one person's judgement.
YOU GETA first engagement is usually one vessel, one skid, or one drawing set.
Hand over a package you can build from
Something your shop floor and procurement can work from directly, in the formats you use.
YOU GETNative CAD files in Creo, SolidWorks, Inventor or Revit, PDF drawing sets, DWG and DXF, and STEP where a fabricator or downstream tool needs it, with the BOM and MTO that sit around the drawings.
Case studies
Single-use chromatography system
Process and layout design for a single-use chromatography skid — flow diagram, isometric routing and instrumentation.
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Virus filtration skid
Layout and flow design for a depth/virus filtration skid — pumps, pinch valves, pressure sensors and filter housings.
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Stainless steel frame assembly
Fabrication detailing for a welded stainless steel frame — member sizes, joint details and a full dimension set for the shop floor.
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Stainless steel joint assembly
Blueprint and photoreal renders of a stainless steel joint assembly, with tolerance callouts for manufacture.
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