EPS Case Histories:

Creating Value Through Design Engineering

The following case studies illustrate the substantial benefits achieved through EPS’s innovative approach to engineering solutions. In all cases, EPS went above and beyond simply meeting the stated objectives by providing designs that produced significant added advantages.

Efficient Designs Save Over $1,000,000 in Annual Manufacturing Costs

The Challenge: A leading commercial vehicle manufacturer was looking for ways to protect its market share in an increasingly competitive economy by building more efficient vehicles while achieving manufacturing cost savings.…more

Bearing Redesign saves $231,000 per year, Achieves 5,775% ROI

The Challenge: A leading manufacturer of towing solutions wanted to increase its profitability by lowering its manufacturing costs. .…more

Material Handling Design Reduces Emissions,
Achieves 39% ROI

The Challenge: An international leader in biotech products needed to protect its production technology and find a better way to handle the solid waste it produced. The existing disposal system was an open conveyor system, which was prone to spillage and exposed workers to hazardous bioaerosols …more

EPS-Designed Process System in Half the Normal Delivery Time

The Challenge: A new ownership agreement dictated improving the production and environmental hygiene aspects of the company’s filter press operation, while meeting a critical deadline to ensure financial reimbursement. The deadline stipulated was rapidly approaching, and it was largely held that the task was an impossible one …more

Waste Disposal System Reduces Costs By $300,000,
Achieves 75% ROI

The Challenge: A diversified biotech company needed to reduce the dust level produced by its plant’s bulk handling systems and to reduce employee exposure to respirable particulate...more

Water Discharge Solution Developed & Implemented,
Exceeds 100% ROI

The Challenge: An international chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturer wanted to reduce waste water discharge in a cost-effective manner, and had hired an engineering firm which spent several months and more than $100,000 collecting data. When no viable solutions were developed by that firm, the company turned to EPS …more

Pneumatic Conveying System Redesigned, No Downtime, Achieves 55% ROI

The Challenge: With semi-trucks of raw materials arriving daily, the company needed a new material handling system that would perform more efficiently than the existing system while resolving reliability, worker exposure, and environmental concerns …more

EPS Self-Directed Plant Documentation & CAD Services

The Challenge: A leading international polymer services company needed detailed CAD drawings for all of its processes for OSHA and EPA compliance and to provide plant management with an assessment of operational capabilities …more

Effective Plant Mechanical Design, 25% Below Budget

The Challenge: A leading building products manufacturer was launching a new division and building a new plant which required an efficient and cost-effective heating, cooling and ventilation system. The objective was to provide a productive, hygienically compliant environment without adversely affecting the process operations …more

New Manufacturing Process Developed in Five Months, Exceeds 100% ROI

The Challenge: One of the company’s well-established, profitable manufacturing processes accounted for a significant percentage of the plant’s SARA Title III air emissions. The primary goal was to reduce these emissions while maintaining the integrity of the process and retaining product line profitability …more

Distillation System Redesign Averts Large Capital Expenditure

The Challenge: A leading chemical manufacturer needed to revamp an existing distillation operation in order to purify a pharmaceutical intermediate to meet customer requirements. Previously proposed designs exceeded $1 million in costs …more

Separations Design Achieves Simplified Production Process, Exceeds 200% ROI

The Challenge: An international bioprocessing company had been meeting customer demand for sodium citrate by converting citric acid through a complex, multi-stage process that was inefficient and costly. EPS personnel were given the task of developing an alternative fermentation recovery scheme …more

Innovative Capture Design Avoids Large Capital Investment, Exceeds 100% ROI

The Challenge: After a traditional engineering approach to emissions capture was proposed by a large, well-established engineering firm, EPS personnel were asked to propose a second – and hopefully more cost-effective – plan …more

Critical Permit Obtained in Three Weeks, Reduces Plant Operating Costs

The Challenge: An international biotech company had mapped out the basics of a strategy to discharge wastewater and had scheduled the construction project, but had not obtained the necessary permitting. The typically lengthy permitting process would have cost the company significantly in terms of delays and shutdowns …more