Advisory
Engineering Consulting & Owner's Engineer
Independent technical judgement at every stage of the asset lifecycle.
Overview
What this capability means at OneFit Projects
We act as your in-house engineering department or independent owner's engineer: scoping projects, reviewing vendor designs, investigating failures and advising boards on technical risk. Our consultants combine hands-on delivery experience with deep domain knowledge across mechanical, process, controls and digital engineering.
How we engage
- Scoped studies with fixed deliverables and price
- Turnkey packages delivered with our engineering, quality and digital teams
- Embedded specialists working in your tools and processes
- Retained support under a framework agreement
Service lines
8 ways we deliver engineering consulting
Feasibility & concept studies
Technical and commercial feasibility, options analysis, capex/opex estimates and go/no-go recommendations.
Owner's engineer services
Specification writing, tender evaluation, vendor design review, factory and site acceptance witnessing on your behalf.
Design review & peer review
Independent third-party review of drawings, calculations, P&IDs, control philosophies and safety cases.
Root cause & failure analysis
Metallurgical, mechanical, process and control failure investigation with corrective and preventive action plans.
Technical due diligence
Asset condition, technology and capability assessments for acquisitions, financing and joint ventures.
Regulatory & standards advisory
Gap assessments and roadmaps against ISO, ASME, PED, FDA, CE and national codes.
Operational excellence
OEE improvement, bottleneck analysis, lean layout, debottlenecking and throughput studies.
Expert witness & dispute support
Technical opinion, evidence review and reports for arbitration and litigation.
Tools, platforms and standards
What we work with
We work in the platforms our clients already use, and we document to the codes their regulators, auditors and customers expect.
- ISO 9001
- ISO 55000
- ASME
- PED
- API
- FDA 21 CFR
- IEC 61511
Where we apply it
Industries served by this capability
Medical Devices
Design, validate and manufacture devices that regulators trust and clinicians rely on.
Industry pagePharmaceutical
GMP facilities, equipment and systems qualified for global regulatory inspection.
Industry pageOil & Gas
Integrity, inspection and engineering for upstream, midstream and downstream assets.
Industry pagePower & Energy
Engineering for thermal, hydro, nuclear-adjacent and grid infrastructure.
Industry pageChemicals & Process
Process, mechanical and safety engineering for plants that run hot, high and hazardous.
Industry pageInfrastructure & Construction
Structural, mechanical and inspection engineering for the built industrial environment.
Industry pageAutomotive & EV
Production lines, test systems and analytics for the electrified vehicle era.
Industry pageAerospace & Defence
Precision engineering, analysis and qualification for flight and mission-critical systems.
Industry pageRepresentative engagements
Engineering Consulting in practice
Investment-grade energy audit and utility redesign for a dairy plant
Identified and implemented steam, refrigeration and compressed-air savings worth a substantial share of the plant's energy bill.
Owner's engineer for a fully automated e-commerce fulfilment centre
Specified, tendered and supervised a shuttle ASRS, sortation and goods-to-person automation programme through to go-live.
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