Food & Beverage · ExpansionCompleted 2023

Ice Cream Plant Upgrade & Expansion

One of the brand's largest plants, rebuilt line by line without a single summer shipment missed.

LocationOntario, Canada

ClientConfidential

LocationOntario, Canada

SectorFood & Beverage

Value$210M

SizeProduction & cold storage

DeliveryEPCM

Duration30 months

StatusCompleted 2023

Why it mattered

Food and beverage plants live by market windows: peak season, retail launches, distribution contracts. A schedule that misses the window does not lose weeks; it loses the year.

The challenge

A global food brand expanded and modernized one of its largest ice cream plants, adding production lines and automated cold storage.

Every hour of shutdown in peak season meant empty freezer space at retail. Cutovers had to land in carefully chosen low-demand windows, and a window missed in spring could not be recovered until autumn.

Our role

Shutdown & Turnaround Scheduling Commissioning & Startup Scheduling Integrated Master Scheduling (IMS)Progress Measurement

Schedule at a glance

The whole program, on one line.

Start to finish, as the schedule tells it. For work still in progress, the bar moves with today's data date.

StartJan 2021

Duration30 months

HandoverJul 2023

Progress—

Protect productionPut equipment on the pathIntegrate the vendorsValidate and ramp

How we held the date

Our approach, phase by phase.

The same disciplined sequence we bring to every engagement, shaped around what this project needed most.

PHASE 01PHASE 02PHASE 03PHASE 04

PHASE 01Protect production

Shutdowns placed in low-demand periods, with every outage planned to the hour.

PHASE 02Put equipment on the path

Process equipment tracked from factory slot to setting on its foundation.

PHASE 03Integrate the vendors

Line vendors, automation and building trades working to one critical path.

PHASE 04Validate and ramp

Line trials, food-safety validation and ramp-up scheduled as real work with real durations.

What changed

The difference we made

Measured the only way that matters: whether the date and the budget held.

Result 01No summer output lost

The program cost no production during peak season in any year of the work.

Result 02Every outage inside its window

Each planned shutdown closed out within its allotted hours.

Result 03Validation treated as real work

Line trials and food-safety validation carried durations and logic in the schedule, not a closing assumption.

Services engaged

What we brought to it

Our work in Food & Beverage

2.01.14Shutdown & Turnaround Scheduling

Hour-by-hour shutdown and turnaround schedules that compress outage windows and return critical assets to service safely, on the date operations committed to.

2.01.15Commissioning & Startup Scheduling

System-based commissioning and startup schedules that carry facilities from mechanical completion to reliable operation without the familiar last-mile slip.

2.01.03Integrated Master Scheduling (IMS)

Integrated Master Schedules that bind design, procurement, construction and commissioning into one traceable program view, from board summary to field activity.

2.02.06Progress Measurement

Quantity-based, field-verified progress measurement that turns physical work into numbers owners, lenders and auditors will accept.

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