Machinery Relocations
What do Machinery Relocations services include and why choose FESS Group?
Moving production assets is not just forklifts and rigging, it is controlled change. Our project engineers coordinate suppliers, lifting teams, electricians, and automation specialists so your lines hit target OEE on day one. We map utilities, interlocks, guarding, and software dependencies before anything is unbolted. In practice, we provide:
- End-to-end Machinery Relocations services and equipment relocation planning
- RAMS, permits to work, lift plans, traffic and pedestrian segregation
- Weekend or night works to avoid downtime and protect output
- Clean-down, swab plans, and allergen controls for high-care lines
Terminology matters
If you search for lift and shift you might miss the specialist planning and validation your site needs. We market and deliver this as machine moves, equipment relocation, and machine relocation services so engineers and procurement teams can specify correctly.
Expect us to:
- Decommission with tagged cabling and as-built documentation
- Protect assets with custom frames, bracing, and shock logging
- Reinstall with precision levelling, alignment, and laser tracking
- Revalidate safety, controls, and throughput against URS
Our Top Machinery Relocation FAQs
We stage works around your shift pattern, pre-fabricate off site, and run parallel commissioning where possible. Night or weekend windows are used for hot cuts and changeovers, then we perform dry and wet runs to verify throughput before releasing back to production.
Yes. We plan segregated routes, blue and white zoning, tool control, and hygienic barriers. Cleaning verification and allergen controls are embedded in the method. This is vital for equipment moving food industry standards and audit readiness.
We plan to LOLER for lifting operations, verify guarding and interlocks to PUWER, and complete electrical testing and controls validation. Post-move, we issue as-builts, commissioning sheets, and re-risk assessments for sign-off.
Our method for zero-disruption machine moves
Every project starts with a structured survey and risk workshop. We capture dimensions, mass, centres of gravity, utilities, access constraints, and micro-timings around your production plan. From there, we create a move file that links lift plans, RAMS, permits, drawings, and QA hold points.
Deliverables you receive:
- Feasibility and costed options, including phased versus big-bang moves
- Programme with milestones, night and weekend windows, and float
- Lift studies, route maps, slab checks, and temporary works design
- Disconnection schedules for power, air, steam, water, data, safety circuits
- Commissioning plan with FAT, SAT, I/O checks, and OEE recovery targets
This is machine relocation services designed to be predictable, safe, and commercially sound.
Engineering scope, from single assets to full line relocation
We support single fillers, ovens, conveyors, multihead weighers, checkweighers, labellers, and complete end-of-line cells. Controls engineers back up PLC and HMI programs, confirm firmware parity, and test interlocks and safety PLCs after reinstatement.
Typical scope elements:
- Decommission, tag, and protect, including pipework blanking and fluid drain-down
- Fabricate skids, bracing, and lift beams, then crane, Versa-lift, or skate as required
- Transport with shock and tilt indicators plus insured escort if needed
- Reposition, bolt-down, level, laser align shafts and belts, tension chains
- Reconnect services, test earth continuity, run I/O and functional tests
- Recommission, run product trials, and hand over with training and manuals
For equipment moving food industry operations, we also manage hygiene risk, traffic segregation, and controlled cleans between zones.
Scheduling around production to protect throughput
Stopping a plant costs money. We structure programmes that protect sales volumes by batching works into short, high-intensity windows. Pre-wiring, pre-fabrication, and off-site panel modifications reduce on-site time. We hold contingency kits and spare parts to avoid rework.
How we keep you running:
- Parallel works, for example conveyor reroute while upstream runs at reduced rate
- Temporary bypass conveyors or manual pack stations to keep WIP moving
- Red-tag change controls so no undocumented changes reach live production
- Go/no-go gates, with senior sign-off before each restart
This approach keeps machine relocation services aligned with commercial targets, not just technical ones.
Services we can help with
Mechanical and Electrical Services 
Industrial Machine Maintenance 
Lift and Shift Equipment Specialists 
Industrial Process Solutions 
Inspection Systems: Industrial Metal Detection 
End Of Line Processes: Industrial Packaging 
Industrial Construction Industries we can help with
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