Technical auditing
Engineering Company “2K” undertakes technical auditing of industrial, production facilities, utilities, buildings and structures. Technical auditing is a modern efficient procedure that serves to examine production and utilities to assess their current state, tracing reserves for improving efficiency, estimating future repair costs, reengineering energy costs and implementing energy-saving systems.
“2K” provides most reliable information about the state of the systems and supplies valid managerial decisions. As a rule, technical auditing is used to develop upgrading projects, reduce current costs, tailor production and management systems, prepare for transactions, as well as for periodic independent verification of the state of foreign or remote assets, prepare assets for pledging, lease or trust management, entering assets in the authorized capital. The need for technical auditing is increasing along with mergers and acquisitions, development of new technologies, and the appearance of new prospects for local production facilities.
The relevance of technical auditing is due to a high degree of depreciation of fixed assets, which poses significant risks. Development of Russian industry, fierce competition, especially after Russia's accession to the WTO, entail managerial, technical and technological changes in the work of industrial facilities, and a constant increase in production efficiency. Thanks to technical auditing, it is possible to trace hidden reserves of increasing production efficiency by studying the production scheme of equipment operation. When making transactions, as a rule, a procedure that examines legal, financial and managerial risks, as well as estimates the value of the business takes place. However, today in the course of acquiring industrial facilities, significant technical risks occur that further impede the operation of assets, which is much due to the aging of industrial assets and the use of sophisticated production equipment.
Therefore, the findings of technical auditing significantly affect the future transaction value. It often happens that when a new owner acquires an enterprise and during its operation an expensive equipment overhaul is required, it is necessary to renew licenses or patents, urgently replace and retrofit the facility, which requires serious investments and does not allow to quickly integrate the acquired asset into the existing business. In order to know and take into account these future events, to assess the scope of necessary changes, independent technical auditors (engineers) are involved. In the course of technical auditing licenses for applied technologies, equipment certificates, managerial documents, maintenance documents and capital repair logs are reviewed, the work of production units is checked, test run of equipment and measurements are made, readings of metering devices are taken. It is important not only to review documents and equipment, but also to interview shop managers, engineers, workers, key managers, that is, to collect as many data as possible.
Based on the study of the information received, recommendations are given on increasing production efficiency, capacity, introduction of advanced technologies, and replacement of obsolete equipment in order to reduce costs. In the course of the technical auditing, general recommendations can also be offered concerning the retooling or production diversification, if the experts deem it necessary to increase the efficiency of the production facility. The auditing covers buildings and structures, utilities and power grids, communication and power lines, production lines and machines, production tools, special-purpose machinery, energy supply facilities and other production components. This requires a team of experts and the use of a certified laboratory. That is why technical auditing is the prerogative of engineering companies having them. Audit findings are reported to the customer. In addition, technical auditing is an independent procedure, arranged in such a way that no entity, employees or experts participating in this procedure are affiliated with the facilities under study.
Our service portfolio includes: review of maintenance and technical documents, structural inspection of industrial and technical facilities based on the results of on site tests, checkup of metering instruments, checking of legal compliance as well as that with the regulations, standards, instructions and rules in the field of HSE, fire safety, power consumption estimation, working out of recommendations on the elimination of the defects revealed, reporting to the customer, working out of a production or facility upgrade program.
Technical auditing is impossible without engaging experts in production, equipment, power systems, since specific assets and processes are subject to analysis. We have a highly skilled and motivated workforce which has a passion for delivering the very best service Our staff are vastly experienced in auditing manufacturing enterprises. We have our own independent instrumentation and measurement laboratory, engineers, technical experts, auditors, lawyers, appraisers, who provide comprehensive technical auditing.
An important feature of the Company's strategy is the opportunity to pass over after the auditing to project preparation, upgrade of industrial assets and subsequent facility reconstruction.