Consultancy & Specialist Services
Our Consultancy & Specialist Services division has been created to develop our specialist services which reflect global business trends and build on our years of experience gained in complementary engineering disciplines to drive business productivity, efficiencies, sustainability, health & safety and compliance.
Having worked with a range of clients over the last 30 years, we have the capability to provide expert technical consultancy that will tangibly improve your plant operations in line with your business objectives. Whether that be improving plant safety, adding value to your process or manufacturing operations, and optimising environmental performance we have cross-sectoral experience to fit with a variety of engineering challenges.
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Technology Development & Digitalisation
Innovation and emerging technologies have been a central focus for businesses, even more so since the introduction of Industry 4.0. Following an intense period of collaboration with our own staff, our partners, our clients, and academia we now have an extensive range of industry use cases for our digital solutions and platforms. We have also developed a new environmental initiative called Environment 4.0, which is all about using emerging digital technologies to align your business and environmental goals to achieve measurable results in efficiency, performance, mitigation, and waste reduction, while also delivering a positive impact on profitability.
We want to continue this journey by encouraging businesses to realise the potential that innovation and emerging technologies can have on their operations.
Booth Welsh embeds digital technology throughout the complete lifecycle of our client’s projects to support specific objectives such as optimising process & manufacturing operations, plant safety, productivity, efficiency, and their journey to net zero. A list of some of the technology development & digitalisation services we offer are detailed below:
- High performance data visualisation, data analytics & machine learning solutions
- Digital Twin development
- AR remote support & troubleshooting
- Remote data acquisition & asset management
- Intelligent workflows for operations & maintenance activities
- Digitalising field testing & commissioning activities
Cyber Security (OT)
In today’s ever connected world, resilient and attack proof systems have never been more important than now. Our team of professionals have a wide range of experience in supporting clients with Operational Technology (OT) requirements, working with you to ensure your systems are as robust and future proof as possible.
We can support clients across a wide range of cyber security (OT) activities, including:
- Cyber audits & risk assessments
- Cyber incident response management planning
- System hardening
- System penetration testing
- Disaster mitigation & recovery
Process Safety
Booth Welsh has a dedicated process safety team who can work with you to put the systems and processes in place to reduce the potential of major accident hazards. We have a proven track record of providing process safety expertise within the process industries and can assist with a wide range of process safety activities. Some of our services include:
- Hazard studies conducted by our trained HAZOP leaders
- Process Hazard Analysis (PHA)
- SIL Studies including Layers of Protection Analysis
- Functional Safety Assessments
- Functional Safety Design and Verification
- Hazardous Area Classification
Recruitment
We offer a full, dedicated internal recruitment function to support the Booth Welsh business needs. We also provide technical engineering resourcing services to new and existing clients across a variety of industry sectors. We work with multi-national companies to source best in class talent, recruiting right across the globe for temporary, contract and permanent positions, at all levels.
Our own Consultants have over 25 years’ experience networking with Engineering candidates and clients.
We work within all major Process industries, including Pharmaceutical, Fine Chemicals, Petrochemical, Renewables, Oil & Gas, Nuclear, Food & Beverage, and more.
We offer a full Engineering, multi-discipline recruitment and resourcing service, such as:
- IR35 compliant Contracting Solutions
- Permanent Staff resourcing
- Retained Specialist Search
- Search & Selection
- Payroll Services
Service & Training
Our 30+ years of industry experience in the engineering & design of bespoke project solutions for our multi-sectoral clients, combined with our track record in delivering complex control system automation solutions, and our more recent efforts in technology & digital platform development, allow us the opportunity to provide comprehensive, value-added technical support to our clients at all times.
Our technical support and bespoke training services provides our clients with tailored solutions to meet their specific needs and the peace of mind that their systems & operations are covered 24/7, where required. The services that we offer include:
- Multi-discipline technical Engineering support for site operations, including high voltage systems.
- Site Control System support, including health checks & maintenance, remote troubleshooting, and 24/7 call-out where required.
- Bespoke training courses tailored to suit site engineering & operational requirements.
- Mixed Reality (VR & AR) training & support, including digital twins and VR mock-ups of hazardous site operations.
Asset Management & Specialist Engineering Services
Specifically focusing on highly regulated industries such as Nuclear, and by drawing on our expertise in Engineering & Consultancy, we can provide comprehensive support for managing your plant assets and delivering bespoke engineering solutions. Our key objective is to enhance our client’s business performance by increasing efficiencies, productivity, and reducing operating costs. Booth Welsh (BW) has been involved in asset & data management work in the UK Nuclear Industry since 2000, providing services such as:
Work (Flow) Management
- Work Pack Specification / Material Requirements
- Bills of Material / critical spares
- Risk Assessment / Safety Assessment
- Inventory Management
- Maintenance Strategies
- Plant Optimisation
- Reliability Centred Maintenance
- Equipment Reliability
Technical Support
- Professional Engineering Services
- Project Management
- Engineering Plant Modification
- Technical Authoring / Maintenance Procedural Authoring / Plant Operating Instructions
- Obsolescence Review and Replacement
- System Commissioning Documents
- Governance, Compliance, and Statutory Reviews
- Document Management / Control
Data Management
- Data mining / Interrogation / Cleansing
- Data Analysis
- Data Verification / Population
- Equipment Grouping
- Plant Verification / Plant Asset labelling