How effective is your maintenance?

Manufacturing equipment is subject to degradation through everyday use and exposure to environmental factors. This degradation ultimately leads to equipment failure, in turn resulting in safety issues, equipment damage, quality issues, and unwanted downtime!

Maintenance is an essential business function and a critical element of asset management. Effective planned maintenance can improve manufacturing efficiency, reliability and profit! Similarly, ineffective maintenance can have a detrimental impact on your business.

QSLs multidisciplinary team have a wealth of experience to help measure the effectiveness of your maintenance, strip out non value adding activity and highlight improvement opportunity’s.

Areas of expertise:

  • Capital Project Support, generating Turnkey Maintenance Life Plans for new plant equipment
  • Equipment condition field surveys, to establish the likelihood of failure
  • Equipment Critical Assessment based on duty and potential consequences of failure
  • Review of legacy maintenance regimes vs volumes of corrective works
  • CMMS configuration and data maintenance
  • Compliance reviews against latest standards and guidelines
  • Spares obsolescence surveys
  • Assessment of the resource requirements based on the new maintenance schedules

QSL provide a broad range of engineering expertise across all disciplines.

Unlike other engineering firms, QSL’s services are tailored to the highly complex and GMP-regulated pharmaceutical industry. We support the entire pharma manufacturing lifecycle from front end design, construction support, project and cost management, commissioning & qualification, continuous improvement, maintenance and decommissioning.

We promote a culture of shared project ownership and responsibility, where the entire team has the same goals: to drive success and deliver results for our clients.

We pride ourselves in our ability to truly understand our client’s needs ensuring we allocate an engineer with the correct blend skillsets and experience to hit the ground running.

Specialist Services:

  • Instrument & Controls
  • Electrical
  • Mechanical
  • Process
  • Project Management
  • Project Planning and Cost Control
  • Construction
  • Commissioning
  • Validation

Computer System Validation Services   

QSL promote a pragmatic risk-based approach to computer system validation (CSV) which aims to reduce business costs and meet greater compliance with the regulatory authorities. This risk-based approach to CSV saves our clients considerable time and money when implementing electronic systems ( e.g. laboratory instruments, automated manufacturing systems (e.g. DeltaV, PCS7) and network computer systems (e.g. LIMS, CDS).We have a dedicated team who develop and implement system validation activities based on current industry best practices (e.g. GAMP 5) and their significant industry knowledge.Our CSV services can be adapted and tailored to meet your organisational needs, leveraging our extensive document templates library and professional team.

CSV Services:

  • CSV Site Validation Master Plans and Summary Reports.
  • Validation Plans and Summary Reports.
  • Validation Gap Analysis Reports.
  • High level risk assessment of Computer Systems.
  • Management of Computer Systems Inventories.
  • Categorisation of hardware and software according to GAMP 5.
  • High level Risk Assessments (for prioritisation of validation activities).
  • Functional Risk Assessment of systems (providing rationale for content of validation protocols).
  • Design Qualification (DQ) protocols.
  • Installation Qualification (IQ) protocols.
  • Operational Qualification (OQ) protocols.
  • Performance Qualification (PQ) protocols.
  • Validation Execution and Reporting.
  • Equipment Qualification (combined IQ/OQ)protocols and reports
 

A specialist cyber security team you can trust

Cyber security can be a daunting area. Our experienced consultants will guide you through the process.

Our primary area of expertise is “Operational Technology” (OT*) in contrast to “Information Technology” (IT).

We can help protect your manufacturing and safety critical systems from disruption. Our services can be tailored to reflect your requirements – from conducting a technical risk assessment for a single asset to developing OT security strategy for a global operation.

More specifically, we help:

  • Conduct an OT security health status checks to assess your current state of protection, the potential business impact from disruption, the risks, and your organisations ability to respond to and recover from a security breach.
  • Strengthen your security arrangements, from improving security governance, identifying and addressing specific technical weaknesses, through to changing the way your people think and act on security.
  • Improve your response capability, including training your teams in incident management
  • Comply with the with the latest standards and guidelines

In addition to meeting functional safety needs, electrical and mechanical equipment present within a flammable atmosphere must comply with the relevant requirements of Atex 95 and must be inspected and maintained accordingly.QSL provide a complete support package offering pragmatic, impartial and accurate advice to help our clients understand the mandatory legal requirements of Hazardous Area legislation.

 

Our Services Include:

  • Inspection and verification in accordance with IEC60079-14 and IEC60079-17
  • Survey and Data Gathering of Ex Equipment on Installations
  • Compiling Ex Registers and Client Databases
  • Management of Clients Ex Register
  • Ex Hazardous Area Inspection Strategy Development & Implementation
  • Ex Installation & Maintenance Project Management
  • Remedial Repairs.
 

Our CompEx certified personnel:

  1. Ex01-04 (Gas/Vapour)
  2. Ex05-06 (Combustible Dust)
  3. Ex12 (Intrinsic Safety Design)
  4. Ex14 (Responsible Persons)