How does one successfully plan a building for food production? You’ve already guessed: This isn’t a task for a normal architectural and engineering office …

In the focus: YOUR core process

How does a classic integrated design process work? As our client, you have ideally already formulated your real estate strategy. In an intense first phase we use this to define your operational and process planning. This provides the basis for the masterplan, in which we define the space requirements of your building before determining, together with you, the more expedient, efficient, and economical way of implementing your strategy: densifying your existing facility or starting a new building project. Then the real planning work begins with the integrated preliminary project.

ATP architects engineers essentially begins its planning work as soon as foodfab has studied in detail, understood, and communicated the core process that should take place in your building. We then work together to find the solution that generates the most added value for you and your vision. In the design studio, a digital twin is now created, which is able to provide information very early and in every project phase. This method demands that the machinery and process technology experts communicate perfectly and work together with all specialist engineers in an interdisciplinary manner. Because a project is good when it achieves its objectives. Overall results rather than isolated achievements.

As experts in your sector, our objective is to help you to become more productive, cost-efficient, and sustainable. We take the time to understand your company, your objectives, and your challenges from first principles, in order to develop bespoke solutions that meet your specific requirements.

Our objective is to offer you a linear process that can be expanded in a modular way and that enables you to flexibly adapt your production capacity and react with appropriate speed to fluctuations in the market. In doing this, we pay special attention to guarantee flows that are free of all crossovers and avoid bottlenecks and delays. In addition to this, we also focus on the use of automation technologies – in order to ensure the high efficiency, optimized cost-effectiveness, and maximum precision of your processes.

Building upon your entrepreneurial vision and strategy, we analyze and document your project or existing operation. We incorporate the findings of our analysis and the operational and process strategy developed in collaboration with you for production and logistics into the master plan for your property. We always consider medium- and long-term new construction and expansions in our planning. We make the most of existing buildings and infrastructure, only renovating and adapting them where processes need to be reorganized to align with future goals. The master plan developed in this manner can then be implemented in stages, and as practical experience has shown, even while the operation is ongoing.

Our experience shows us that today’s food companies increasingly require holistic guidance – roadmaps for the transformation of their production facilities from traditional plants into smart factories. As integrated food technology experts, we can also help you to position the right machines logically and to operate them at exactly the right capacity and to make production flows more efficient.