Friday, August 2, 2019

The Benefits Of Pilot Plants

By Susan Hayes


Many individuals and small businesses have struggled to move their ideas from singular creation to mass production. The time, financial investment, and energy are often overwhelming. Building pilot plants can relive all of these problems. Being smaller, they take less money to build and reduced time from start to finish. There are many benefits in using this option when you want to go from small-scale to large-scale production.

Moving from creating one at a time to many is a huge step for some. The ability to take an item that needs a lot of testing or a product that needs to be made faster and on a larger scale is not an easy task. As the inventor or discoverer, finding that middle ground is harder than it seems. Having a smaller facility that has what you need to do things are a larger scale than before helps move things forward quickly.

Multiple testings can happen at once. There is a lot at stake when time is a factor. Creating a single product and then testing it takes time. Being able to create several and test them at once makes everything go faster. Since the testing is completed faster, you can produce the results more quickly. Many testing facilities have to be scaled up in order to keep investors happy. A middle step allows you to increase production and testing time.

Scaling up for production is tested through the pilot phase. The cost of a huge production facility is not always a good investment when you're still working out the kinks in how a product will be produced. Having a smaller and less expensive facility allows you to test and modify the production setup before investing in the larger production line. When so much is at stake, it is important to get the assembly line and testing systems set up to know that your end product will be exactly what you want. Without this intermediate step, the modifications to a full-scale production line will be extremely costly.

Saving money is always good. The pilot plant phase costs much less than the larger systems. The equipment, employees, and other factors are much smaller in scale and keep the investment smaller in turn. Using the middle step reduces the amount of money needed to get up and running. Once the money is coming in from sales, it is much easier to secure capital for the larger facilities.

Remote destinations may need a modular facility. In some cases, the resources for testing or creating a product are not easily accessible. Being able to build a modular plant allows the company a chance to get the facilities close to the point of origin and reduce shipping or transport costs. The plant can be built on site and even moved at a later date.

Smaller systems take less time to build. Usually, when a small business wants to ramp up production, they spend a lot of money getting the new lines setup. If the new facility takes a long time to get ready, the money continually flows out instead of in. Saving time by getting the system's set up quickly allows the business to start making money much faster. This then allows the products to get to market faster.

Providing a middle ground for small companies to grow is essential to move forward. The smaller plants provide the advantages of a large production facility without all the costs associated with it. Time is saved and things can get moving much faster.




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