BUILDING A NEW PROCESS IN THE CHEMICAL PLANT

BUILDING A NEW PROCESS IN THE CHEMICAL PLANT

According to the growth of chemical products demand, most companies urgently plan to increase their production rates. The only way to increase the rate is to develop a new process that is more efficiency. In order to do that, the project engineer has to follow the instruction carefully. As I used to be a project engineer, I will tell you step by step what I had to do to create a new process.

First, I have a conference with my team and operators, workers, to brainstorm so I will have all necessary opinions from other people in the factory. Opinions from them are noteworthy because operators who work in their specific areas know first-hand what would be helpful for each specific part of the process. After knowing things to do from operators, I always brainstorm and talk with my team in order to share our ideas. As a result, I would have ideas from operators in every functions of the factory and plan from the team to do the next step.

After that, I organize workers, time, tools, new machines, and location that are necessary to install new machines in their appropriate places. After organizing them, everything would be in order and every steps would be in appropriate sequence.

Then I draft my new process by managing workers to carefully install all machines in their appropriate places that I have already designed. I usually manage the project to finish accurately on time. This is the most difficult step because electricity and utility systems in every machines are complicated. Skilled workers are essential to be participating in the installing team.  

After finishing installing all machines, I review the new process by running the whole machines together. I observe every parts of the process and machines in order to make sure there is no failure in my new process. I also check quality of the products that are made from this process to certify the new process.

I revise the process by search for problems. If there was a problem with my new process, I would quickly find the cause of that problem and suddenly fix it. I add some more devices that would help the process to run smoothly.

Lastly, I publish my new process. I present it to the owner of the company and let the factory run it. The new process can provide the company with a large amount of money after running it.