INDUSTRIAL

Wood Products Engineering, Crow Engineering 

Industrial

INDUSTRIAL Experience

Our team of consultants and structural, civil, forensic, and mechanical engineers have a vast amount of experience in a variety of industrial settings. We also partner with a diverse group of architects and engineering firms to ensure our clients receive the most comprehensive design and quality.  

Our experienced engineers design the following types of facilities:

WOOD PRODUCTS

  • Raw material processing 
  • Veneers
  • Lumber
  • Chips
  • Sawdust
  • Planing
  • Bark
  • Fuel
  • Biomass of all types including plastics and other post-consumer waste materials.

MANUFACTURING

  • Material handling systems
  • Storage systems
  • Custom equipment and machinery
  • Process design
  • Overhead crane integration

MAINTENANCE

  • Vehicle maintenance and dispatch
  • Truck wash
  • Part storage and inventory management design
  • Office and team rooms

BULK HANDLING

  • Marine load/unload systems
  • Pellet manufacturing and distribution
  • Grain and particulate systems
  • Residual and waste management system
Engineering & Consulting Services
  • Equipment supports
    • Frames
    • Towers
  • Foundation designs including:
    • Pile-supported foundation systems
    • Conventional and special foundation systems
    • Mat slab foundations
  • Greenfield facility design
  • Building evaluations, renovations and seismic upgrades
  • 3D scanning
  • Custom equipment and complete solutions
  • Equipment integration, automation and installation
  • Plant layout optimization for ease of operation, safety and efficacy
  • Process optimization
  • Safety evaluations and upgrades to meet industry standards and requirements
  • Plant upgrades and equipment retrofits utilizing the latest technology
  • FEA analysis and design reviews
  • Maintenance and maintenance-improvement projects
  • Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) improvement
  • Machine and equipment engineering and design
  • Machine and equipment layouts
  • Conveyor and transfer engineering and design
  • As-built drawings
  • Shop Drawings and fabrication level design documents
  • Maintenance engineering and reliability support
  • Coordination with OEM vendors for integration into overall plant and product line layout
  • Special machine design
  • Construction review services
Additional SERVICES
  • Preliminary feasibility studies
  • Plant layout options
    • Machine and equipment installations
    • Equipment support
  • Assistance and recommendations for capital improvements
    • Feasibility studies
    • Product recovery
    • Productivity
    • Staffing
    • Manufacturing costs
    • Marketing flexibility
    • Preparing capital estimates, budgets and economic justification including the development of pro-forma income and cash flow statements
    • Operational improvements
    • Product line enhancements
    • Alternative equipment configurations
    • Evaluation of facility competitive position in respect to:
      • Product recovery
      • Productivity
      • Staffing
      • Manufacturing costs
      • Marketing flexibility

 

INDUSTRIAL Experience

Our team of consultants and structural, civil, forensic, and mechanical engineers have a vast amount of experience in a variety of industrial settings. We also partner with a diverse group of architects and engineering firms to ensure our clients receive the most comprehensive design and quality.  

Our experienced engineers design the following types of facilities:

WOOD PRODUCTS

  • Raw material processing 
  • Veneers
  • Lumber
  • Chips
  • Sawdust
  • Planing
  • Bark
  • Fuel
  • Biomass of all types including plastics and other post-consumer waste materials.

MANUFACTURING

  • Material handling systems
  • Storage systems
  • Custom equipment and machinery
  • Process design
  • Overhead crane integration

MAINTENANCE

  • Vehicle maintenance and dispatch
  • Truck wash
  • Part storage and inventory management design
  • Office and team rooms

BULK HANDLING

  • Marine load/unload systems
  • Pellet manufacturing and distribution
  • Grain and particulate systems
  • Residual and waste management system
Engineering & Consulting Services
  • Equipment supports
    • Frames
    • Towers
  • Foundation designs including:
    • Pile-supported foundation systems
    • Conventional and special foundation systems
    • Mat slab foundations
  • Greenfield facility design
  • Building evaluations, renovations and seismic upgrades
  • 3D scanning
  • Custom equipment and complete solutions
  • Equipment integration, automation and installation
  • Plant layout optimization for ease of operation, safety and efficacy
  • Process optimization
  • Safety evaluations and upgrades to meet industry standards and requirements
  • Plant upgrades and equipment retrofits utilizing the latest technology
  • FEA analysis and design reviews
  • Maintenance and maintenance-improvement projects
  • Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) improvement
  • Machine and equipment engineering and design
  • Machine and equipment layouts
  • Conveyor and transfer engineering and design
  • As-built drawings
  • Shop Drawings and fabrication level design documents
  • Maintenance engineering and reliability support
  • Coordination with OEM vendors for integration into overall plant and product line layout
  • Special machine design
  • Construction review services
Additional SERVICES
  • Preliminary feasibility studies
  • Plant layout options
    • Machine and equipment installations
    • Equipment support
  • Assistance and recommendations for capital improvements
    • Feasibility studies
    • Product recovery
    • Productivity
    • Staffing
    • Manufacturing costs
    • Marketing flexibility
    • Preparing capital estimates, budgets and economic justification including the development of pro-forma income and cash flow statements
    • Operational improvements
    • Product line enhancements
    • Alternative equipment configurations
    • Evaluation of facility competitive position in respect to:
      • Product recovery
      • Productivity
      • Staffing
      • Manufacturing costs
      • Marketing flexibility
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