An optimal production flow

INDUSTRY CONSULTING

We ensure the optimal production flow

MOE has created a strong basis for client consultancy services for industrial clients. A new department made up of experienced consultants within Life Science and design of production facilities form a solid foundation for decision making in the early project stages.

Victor Galavits, architect by profession, has worked on industrial projects for more than 20 years. Namely, process architecture focusing on the integration and optimisation of processes, flow and equipment for production facilities.

Victor is head of the new department that consolidates our skills within industrial client consultancy. It is not a new discipline in MOE, but this department's main focus will be the preliminary project stages where decisive decisions are made. Process architecture and visualisations of the potential production facilities play an important role in this context.

Time, financial and technical aspects are, of course, important ingredients when we help clients gain a solid basis for decisions in the early stages of a project. However, being able to show different scenarios such as how a productive production flow will look is at least as valuable. We work with advanced facilities which means that it can be a good investment to determine the flow early on. To this end, we provide both design skills and visualisation tools.

As Victor points out, their task is also sometimes to assist the client in finding a suitable location for a facility and prepare a masterplan, before the acquisitional decisions are made. This might require an analysis of a location’s potential for expansion, basic logistic aspects, supply conditions, legislation etc. Medico Valley and cleanroom technology No doubt, advanced production facilities often require advanced expertise, and an example of a niche expertise that is often valuable is cleanroom technology. To answer these needs, the department has Jens Hvidberg, one of the leading cleanroom specialists in Denmark.

Cleanrooms are essential for the pharmaceutical industry, but they are also used in the production of electronics, foods and other products. Pharma is one of the areas in which the department’s expertise is in high demand, and our department is very experienced. Medical products are Denmark’s largest export good and our headquarters are situated, strategically, in what is often referred to as “Medico Valley”. The name refers to the Øresund region, where several large, global pharmaceutical companies, as well as internationally acknowledged universities, are situated and from which new candidates graduate each year.

MOE solves several projects for companies in Medico Valley. As part of Artelia Group, we can draw on international experience from numerous pharmaceutical projects. Artelia is based in France and, like Denmark, France has a large medical industry. As Victor explains, pharma is an equal parts interesting and demanding discipline:

It is extremely valuable to have an asset such as Jens Hvidberg as his expertise is relevant from the very beginning and throughout the whole project. At the same time, it is important for us to stay agile. As soon as the product in question is ready to be launched time is of the essence, and that requires flexibility. You need to constantly be aware that all industrial projects can change quickly when new needs arise. That is why it is important to offer multidisciplinary consultant skills to be ready with the right expertise at the right time.

Victor Galavits Head of Department Client Consultancy - Industry Copenhagen