EFI Group offers a wealth of knowledge and experience with full range of services to food and beverage processing and general manufacturing plants.

Preventative Maintenance of Production Lines

We identify and take immediate action to prevent machinery from failing and disrupting production. Our preventative maintenance services deliver increased reliability and less downtime. These services include:

• Replacing worn/faulty components

• Checking terminals to ensure proper connections

• Identifying sources/causes of corrosion

• Inspecting for water ingress damage

• Insulating and resistance testing

• Rectifying problems using thermographic imagery

• Monitoring and maintaining instrumentation devices

• Maintaining equipment safety — emergency STOP operation, guard switches, emergency lanyards and machine guarding to Australian Standards.

Emergency Breakdown Repairs

Our rapid response, fast fault diagnosis and immediate repair will ensure minimal plant downtime. Our emergency breakdown repair services include:

• 24/7 breakdown call-out service

• Onsite diagnostics including programmable logic controllers using PLC diagnostic software

• Root cause identification

• Immediate fault rectifications

• Machine testing and repair verification.

Capital Projects

We adapt, upgrade and modernise production lines to take advantage of new technologies which provide product quality and cost benefits. Our services include:

• Installing machine vision systems

• Machinery upgrades

• Conveyor systems automation

• Implementing machinery status data acquisition software and hardware

• Project commissioning

• Issuing Certificates of Electrical Safety.

Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs)

We install, program and reprogram PLCs. Our PLC services include:

• New program development

• Machinery fault diagnosis

• Program modifications

• Analogue motor control (VSD)

• Developing and installing HMI (Human Interface) applications.

Refrigeration and Heating

We provide maintenance of controlled temperature environments and processes. Our refrigeration and heating services include:

• Temperature control and sensor maintenance and installation

• Logging of temperature records for AQIS purposes

• Turning of PID control loops. 

Warehouses

We offer a range of services to keep warehouses operating safety and efficiently. These include maintenance of:

• High bay lighting

• Roller doors

• Suspended GPOs

• Automated pallet wrapping equipment.

We also install and maintain laser barcode readers. 

Factory Facilities and Amenities

We provide a complete range of services for lighting and cabling of factories and related facilities. These include maintaining: 

• factory lighting

• car park flood and security lighting

• exit and emergency lighting

• GPOs

• alarm systems. 

We also install data and network cabling. 

Testing and Tagging

We can help you meet your duty of care under Occupational Health and Safety legislation in regularly assuring the safety of your electrical equipment against death or injury to your employees. We provide:

• Testing and tagging of 415v and 240v appliances

• Programmed testing and tagging

• Insulation resistance testing

• Data logging and reporting

• Earth leakage testing.

Contact us to arrange a free, no obligation site visit to learn more about our services and find out how EFI can take the stress out of maintaining your equipment in a broad range of manufacturing and food and beverage processing environments.