Confidential Client
Ground Beef Line Execution
Rapidly engineered, permitted, and installed to minimize downtime. Strategic development allowed lower rate production to proceed key weeks before full commissioning, creating early client return.
Critical Timelines • High Performance Results
The Challenge: Installing High-Volume Capacity in Concurrently Running Facility
The client required a major capacity expansion inside an existing, highly active Los Angeles manufacturing plant with a target of installing a massive 350,000 lbs/week high-capacity ground beef processing line.
With peak sales season looming, shutting down operational segments was out of the question; cumulative production timeline disruptions could not exceed four weeks. Fire protection codes, local permits, and physical mechanical moves had to occur concurrently while other lines maintained volume.
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Compressed Schedule — Hard 6-month turnkey delivery limit.
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Uninterrupted Flow — Maximum 4 weeks total production downtime.
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Live Plant Coordination — Clean layout boundaries in continuous utilization.
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Complex Inspections — Fire suppression loops and alarm integrations.
DPS purchased critical-path equipment immediately. Completed structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and architectural layouts in just 4 weeks, with a dedicated task force directly organizing 12 subcontractors.
Design • Build • Manage – Dynamic Alignment
DESIGN
All disciplines engineered within 4 weeks. Key process assets ordered first to eliminate logistics delivery lag. Fully reconciled fire suppression system within existing layout parameters.
BUILD
Turnkey field representation managing 12 specialty contractors. Handled processing room relocations, slab adjustments, utility piping hooks, and sanitation boundary walls cleanly.
MANAGE
Focused project management with weekly dashboarding logic. Designed and activated phased production by Week 11, giving the client early market capitalization months before baseline closeout.
EXECUTION TIMELINE
Phased Relocation & Capacity Delivery Timeline
Engineering & Permits
Structural, MEP designs calculated. Immediate equipment acquisitions placed. Approvals fully released in Los Angeles county.
Installation & Retrofit
Under-floor utility trenches cut, process pipes distributed. Line assets positioned and existing processing room relocated elegantly.
Early Production
Relocated slicing room delivered. Early lower-rate operations initialized to protect active product supply goals.
Full Integration
Fire prevention safety nets run, complex control calibrations finished and SCADA systems certified with only 4 weeks operational gap.
Full Scale Achieved
Ground beef line running at maximum 350,000 lbs/week layout with zero delay or supply defaults reporting.
Installation & Validation Phase Images
“DPS delivered our ground beef line faster than any partner we’ve ever worked with. The early production at week 11 allowed us to capture peak season sales we would have otherwise missed.”
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