Evaluate the interface between equipment, buildings and utilities. A plant project needs a complete scope for dismantling, relocation and recommissioning as well as a machine inventory.
- Which utilities and building interfaces are documented?
- Which relocation and recommissioning responsibilities remain with the buyer?
Inspect the plant’s operating dependencies
Request layout and available documentation for utility connections and control interfaces. Identify shared services that are not included in the sale. Review the dependency list with the technical team so the inspected production scope can be recreated at destination.
Verify identity and scope
Match serial plates, year, manuals, electrical drawings and the seller’s equipment list to every module offered.
Inspect condition
Check wear parts, lubrication, bearings, product-contact areas, safety systems, controls, obsolescence and visible modifications.
Test with evidence
Whenever possible run the equipment with representative product and formats, recording speed, rejects, alarms and changeover requirements.