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Single-Source Project Execution

Managing multiple vendors, contractors, and suppliers can quickly create communication gaps, scheduling conflicts, and costly delays. TruNorth simplifies project execution by serving as a single-source partner responsible for coordinating every phase of the project. This streamlined approach reduces risk, improves accountability, and allows clients to focus on operations instead of managing multiple moving parts.

Streamlined Point of Contact

Large projects often become inefficient when communication is spread across multiple contacts. TruNorth assigns a dedicated project manager who serves as a consistent point of contact from kickoff through completion. Clients receive clear communication, real-time project updates, and coordinated decision-making that helps keep projects aligned, responsive, and on schedule.

EPC Services

As a full-service EPC provider, TruNorth manages engineering, procurement, and construction under one unified team. This integrated approach improves project efficiency, reduces coordination challenges, and creates greater accountability throughout execution. By managing the entire process from design through installation, we help clients reduce delays, control costs, and ensure the final solution performs as intended in real-world operating conditions.

Our “One Throat to Choke” approach gives clients a single accountable partner throughout the life of the project. Instead of managing multiple contractors, vendors, and competing responsibilities, clients work through one source for communication, coordination, and execution. With a Single Source, Single PO model, procurement and project management become more streamlined, reducing administrative complexity while improving schedule control, accountability, and overall project visibility.

Licensed and Bonded Across States

With licensing and bonding across multiple states, TruNorth can mobilize quickly to support projects in a variety of locations and industries. Clients benefit from a partner that understands regional requirements, can adapt to different project environments, and is prepared to execute work efficiently without unnecessary administrative delays.

Diverse Network of Trusted Subcontractor Partners

Successful projects depend on reliable people in the field. TruNorth has built a strong network of trusted subcontractors, craftsmen, suppliers, and technical specialists who consistently meet our standards for quality, safety, and execution. This allows us to assemble the right team for each project while maintaining accountability and performance across all phases of work.

Complete Project Transparency

Clients should never feel disconnected from the status of their project. TruNorth maintains full transparency throughout the project lifecycle by providing visibility into budgets, procurement decisions, scheduling updates, and design changes. This open communication approach helps clients make informed decisions quickly while reducing uncertainty and unexpected surprises.

Flexible Contract Solutions

Every project operates under different financial, operational, and scheduling constraints. TruNorth offers flexible contract structures designed to align with each client’s unique needs, whether supporting a fast-moving capital project, phased implementation, or ongoing engineering support. This flexibility helps clients maintain better budget control while adapting to changing project demands.

Project, Program, and CAPEX Management

Successful capital projects require more than schedules and spreadsheets. They require practical experience, proactive communication, and the ability to keep projects moving when challenges arise. TruNorth manages CAPEX projects from concept through implementation with a focus on minimizing risk, controlling costs, and aligning every decision with your operational and financial goals. We help clients avoid costly surprises, maintain momentum, and deliver projects that support long-term production performance.

Feasibility Studies and Budget Development

Before major capital is committed, TruNorth helps clients validate project viability through detailed feasibility studies, including FEED and FEL assessments. Our approach identifies technical challenges, operational impacts, budget considerations, and execution risks early in the process. When changes are less expensive and easier to manage. By building realistic budgets and actionable project roadmaps upfront, we help clients make confident investment decisions with fewer downstream disruptions.

Owner’s Representative Services

TruNorth serves as a trusted advocate for owners throughout the lifecycle of a project. We help protect your interests by monitoring progress, coordinating communication between stakeholders, identifying potential issues early, and maintaining accountability across contractors and vendors. Our role is to give clients confidence that projects are being executed properly, efficiently, and in alignment with their operational expectations.

Production Line Relocation and Coordination

Relocating a production line involves far more than moving equipment. It requires detailed planning, coordination, and execution to avoid unnecessary downtime and startup delays. TruNorth helps clients manage production line relocations with a focus on maintaining continuity, protecting equipment investments, and ensuring a smooth transition back to full production as quickly as possible.

Scope Definition and Specification Development

Clear project scopes and well-defined specifications are critical to avoiding change orders, delays, and miscommunication. TruNorth works closely with clients to develop practical, achievable project requirements that align with operational goals, budgets, and long-term performance expectations. By defining expectations early, we help create smoother project execution and more predictable outcomes.

Process and Piping Design and Layouts

Well-designed process and piping systems do more than move product. They improve efficiency, reduce maintenance challenges, and support long-term operational reliability. TruNorth develops process and piping layouts tailored to each facility’s production goals, space constraints, and operational requirements. Our practical design approach helps clients improve flow, reduce bottlenecks, and integrate new systems smoothly into existing operations with minimal disruption.

System Retrofits and Upgrades

Aging systems can limit productivity, increase downtime, and create ongoing maintenance concerns. TruNorth helps clients modernize and upgrade existing systems to improve performance, reliability, and efficiency without requiring a complete facility overhaul. By identifying practical improvement opportunities, we help extend equipment life, increase throughput, and adapt operations to meet evolving production demands.

Mixing, Batching, and Blending

Efficient mixing, batching, and blending systems are critical to maintaining product consistency, process control, and production efficiency. TruNorth helps clients design, optimize, and upgrade these systems to improve throughput, reduce waste, and support repeatable product quality. Our hands-on process engineering experience allows us to develop solutions that work reliably in real-world manufacturing environments.

Bulk Dry Material Handling

Handling bulk dry materials efficiently requires careful consideration of flow characteristics, storage, transfer methods, and dust control. TruNorth helps clients improve material handling systems to reduce waste, minimize downtime, and improve operational consistency. From conveying and storage to process integration, we focus on solutions that improve reliability, protect product quality, and support safer operations.

Magnet Audits and Performance Evaluations

Magnetic separation systems play a critical role in protecting product quality, equipment, and customer trust — but over time, magnets can lose strength, become contaminated, or fall out of compliance without obvious warning signs. TruNorth provides magnet audits and performance evaluations to help facilities verify that magnetic systems are operating effectively and protecting production as intended.

Our audits assess magnet strength, placement, condition, accessibility, and overall effectiveness within the process. We help identify opportunities to improve contaminant capture, support food and product safety initiatives, reduce equipment damage risks, and maintain compliance with customer or industry standards.

To help facilities better understand the condition of their systems without upfront risk, TruNorth offers the first magnet audit free of charge. This gives clients a practical baseline assessment and actionable recommendations for improving system performance, product protection, and operational reliability.

Process Automation and Modernization

Modern automation solutions can significantly improve production efficiency, consistency, and visibility across operations. TruNorth helps clients modernize processes by integrating automation systems that reduce manual intervention, improve process control, and streamline workflows. Our goal is to create practical automation solutions that increase productivity while giving operators better insight into system performance and operational decision-making.

PFD and P&ID Development and Updates

Accurate documentation is essential for efficient operations, troubleshooting, maintenance, and future expansion planning. TruNorth develops and updates PFDs and P&IDs that provide clear visibility into system functionality and process flow. By maintaining accurate documentation, clients are better equipped to train personnel, support compliance efforts, and make informed operational decisions with greater confidence.

Equipment Specifications and Selection

Selecting the right equipment can have a major impact on system performance, maintenance requirements, and long-term operating costs. TruNorth helps clients evaluate and specify equipment based on their unique application, operational goals, and production demands. Because we are vendor-neutral, our recommendations are driven by performance, compatibility, reliability, and overall value, not supplier preferences.

CIP/COP System Designs

Effective sanitation systems are essential for maintaining product quality, meeting regulatory requirements, and minimizing downtime between production cycles. TruNorth designs CIP and COP systems that support thorough cleaning while maintaining operational efficiency. Our approach helps clients improve sanitation consistency, reduce labor requirements, and keep production moving with minimal interruption.

Dust Hazard Analysis

Combustible dust hazards can create serious safety and compliance risks if not properly managed. TruNorth conducts Dust Hazard Analysis (DHA) surveys and develops mitigation strategies that help facilities identify high-risk areas, reduce ignition hazards, and improve overall plant safety. Our approach focuses on practical solutions that help protect personnel, equipment, and operations while supporting compliance with applicable industry standards.

Mass Balance and Utility Matrix Development

Understanding how materials and utilities move throughout a process is critical to improving efficiency and operational planning. TruNorth develops mass balances and utility matrices that help clients evaluate system performance, identify inefficiencies, and support future process improvements. These tools provide clearer operational visibility and help guide smarter production and resource management decisions.

Packaging Line Design, Analysis, and Layout

An effective packaging line does more than move products. It directly impacts throughput, labor efficiency, downtime, and overall operational performance. TruNorth designs packaging systems with a focus on maximizing productivity, reducing waste, and creating smoother product flow from start to finish. By aligning equipment layouts with real-world operational demands, we help clients improve efficiency while creating packaging lines that are easier to maintain, operate, and scale.

Product Application Expertise

Different products create different packaging challenges, and successful systems must be designed around real production conditions. Whether handling wet, dry, viscous, rigid, flexible, bulk, high-speed, or specialty products, TruNorth develops packaging solutions tailored to the unique characteristics of each application. Our practical manufacturing experience helps ensure packaging systems perform reliably while maintaining product quality, consistency, and production efficiency.

Equipment Specifications, Comparisons, and Procurement

Choosing the right packaging equipment has a major impact on long-term operational performance and maintenance costs. TruNorth helps clients evaluate, compare, and select packaging equipment based on production goals, product requirements, available space, and future scalability. Because we remain vendor-neutral, our recommendations are focused on finding the best fit for the application; helping clients make confident investment decisions without unnecessary overspending.

Line Automation and Robotics Integration

Automation and robotics can significantly improve packaging line speed, consistency, and labor efficiency when implemented correctly. TruNorth helps clients integrate automation solutions that reduce manual handling, improve repeatability, and create more responsive production environments. Our approach focuses on practical automation strategies that support operational goals while improving uptime, flexibility, and long-term production capacity.

Installation, Startup, Commissioning, and Training Support

Successfully launching a new packaging line requires more than equipment installation. TruNorth provides hands-on startup and commissioning support to help ensure systems operate as intended from day one. We work directly with operators, maintenance personnel, and plant teams to provide practical training and troubleshooting support that reduces startup delays, improves system adoption, and helps facilities reach stable production faster.

Factory and Site Acceptance Testing Support

Identifying issues before full production begins can prevent costly delays and operational disruptions later. TruNorth supports factory and site acceptance testing to verify equipment performance, validate system functionality, and ensure packaging lines meet operational expectations before going live. This process gives clients greater confidence that systems are ready for production under real operating conditions.

Packaging Line Efficiency Studies and Upgrades

Even well-established packaging lines often contain hidden inefficiencies that impact throughput and profitability. TruNorth conducts packaging line assessments to identify bottlenecks, downtime causes, and performance limitations that may be reducing productivity. We then help implement practical upgrades and process improvements that improve efficiency, increase throughput, and extend the value of existing equipment investments.

Packaging Line Modifications and Relocations

Packaging line modifications and relocations require careful planning to avoid unnecessary downtime and production interruptions. TruNorth helps clients manage these transitions efficiently by coordinating layouts, utilities, equipment integration, and startup activities with minimal disruption to operations. Our goal is to keep production moving while ensuring modified or relocated systems perform reliably in their new configuration.

Existing System Analysis for Performance Improvement

Production issues are often caused by inefficiencies that go unnoticed over time. TruNorth evaluates existing systems to identify performance gaps, bottlenecks, reliability concerns, and opportunities for improvement that can increase throughput and reduce downtime. Our practical, operations-focused approach helps clients maximize the value of their current systems while improving efficiency, consistency, and long-term reliability.

Upgrades to Legacy Control Systems

Outdated control systems can limit production visibility, create maintenance challenges, and increase operational risk. TruNorth helps clients modernize legacy PLC and control systems with upgrade strategies that improve reliability, simplify troubleshooting, and support future expansion. By carefully planning migrations and integrations, we help minimize downtime while transitioning operations to more capable and maintainable technologies.

Programming and Troubleshooting

Unexpected automation and controls issues can quickly impact productivity and disrupt operations. TruNorth provides programming and troubleshooting support designed to resolve problems efficiently while improving overall system stability. Our hands-on experience allows us to diagnose issues quickly, implement practical solutions, and help clients reduce recurring problems that affect uptime and production performance.

Control Panels, Hardware, and Instruments

Reliable controls begin with properly designed hardware and instrumentation. TruNorth develops control panel solutions and hardware selections that support safe operation, maintainability, and long-term system performance. We focus on practical designs that improve accessibility, simplify maintenance, and help facilities maintain compliance with industry standards and operational requirements.

Hardware and Software Upgrades

As manufacturing technology evolves, aging hardware and software can create compatibility issues, security concerns, and operational inefficiencies. TruNorth helps clients implement strategic upgrades that improve system performance, increase reliability, and support modern manufacturing capabilities. Our approach prioritizes practical improvements that extend system life while minimizing disruption to ongoing operations.

Process and Packaging Controls and Instrumentation

Consistent production depends on accurate controls and reliable instrumentation. TruNorth helps clients improve process and packaging system performance through integrated control solutions that enhance accuracy, responsiveness, and operational visibility. By improving control consistency, we help facilities reduce waste, improve product quality, and maintain more stable production environments.

Control Platform Expertise

Manufacturing environments often rely on a combination of platforms and technologies that must work together seamlessly. TruNorth brings experience across leading control platforms, including Rockwell, Siemens, GE, Modicon, Wonderware, and Ignition, allowing us to integrate systems efficiently while supporting long-term maintainability. Our broad platform expertise helps clients avoid compatibility issues and build solutions that align with their operational needs and future growth plans.

Information Solutions

Operational data is most valuable when it can be turned into actionable insight. TruNorth helps clients improve visibility into production, performance, and operational trends through integrated information solutions, including SCADA, Historians, ERP, MES, and reporting systems. By improving access to real-time and historical data, we help organizations make faster, more informed decisions that support efficiency, productivity, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Startup, Commissioning, and Training Support

Bringing new equipment or systems online is often where projects succeed or fail. TruNorth provides startup and commissioning support focused on reducing downtime, accelerating ramp-up, and ensuring operators are fully prepared for day-to-day use. We work directly with plant personnel to deliver practical training and operational guidance that improves adoption, increases reliability, and helps teams become self-sufficient faster.

On-Site Engineering Support

Unexpected production or technical issues can quickly impact schedules, throughput, and profitability. TruNorth provides responsive on-site engineering support to troubleshoot problems, stabilize operations, and keep projects moving forward. Our practical manufacturing experience allows us to quickly assess issues, implement solutions, and minimize operational disruptions when time matters most.

Custom Fabrication

Every facility has unique operational challenges that often require more than off-the-shelf solutions. TruNorth provides custom fabrication services designed around the specific needs of each application, helping clients improve functionality, efficiency, and long-term reliability. From process support structures to specialized equipment modifications, our practical fabrication approach ensures components are built to integrate seamlessly into existing operations while supporting safe, efficient production.

Equipment Demo, Relocation, and Installation

Equipment moves and installations require careful coordination to avoid unnecessary downtime, equipment damage, and production delays. TruNorth manages equipment demolition, relocation, and installation projects with a focus on maintaining operational continuity and minimizing disruption to production schedules. Our experienced field teams coordinate rigging, utilities, layout integration, and startup support to help clients return to full operation safely and efficiently.

Tanks, Vessels, Bins, and Silos

Properly designed and installed storage and process vessels are critical to maintaining efficient material handling, product quality, and operational reliability. TruNorth supports the fabrication, modification, and installation of tanks, vessels, bins, and silos tailored to the demands of each process and facility environment. Our solutions are designed to improve durability, accessibility, cleanability, and long-term system performance while supporting safe and efficient operation.

Mezzanines, Catwalks, and Platforms

Safe and efficient facility access is essential for maintenance, operations, and employee safety. TruNorth designs and installs mezzanines, catwalks, and elevated platforms that improve accessibility while maximizing available facility space. Our structural solutions are built with both functionality and safety in mind, helping clients improve workflow efficiency, support equipment access, and create safer working environments throughout the facility.

Boiler and Steam System Evaluation

Inefficient boiler and steam systems can quietly drive up energy costs, reduce reliability, and create avoidable maintenance issues. TruNorth evaluates boiler and steam systems to identify performance gaps, safety concerns, and opportunities for operational improvement. Our assessments help clients improve energy efficiency, reduce utility costs, and maintain more reliable thermal system performance across their operations.

Steam Control Valve Selection and Sizing

Properly selected and sized steam control valves play a critical role in maintaining stable temperatures, efficient energy usage, and consistent system performance. TruNorth helps clients evaluate operating conditions and application requirements to ensure control valves are properly matched to the system. This helps improve process control, reduce energy waste, and minimize unnecessary wear on equipment.

Steam Trap Selection and Sizing

Steam traps that are improperly selected or sized can negatively impact efficiency, increase maintenance costs, and reduce overall system reliability. TruNorth helps clients identify the right steam trap solutions for their specific applications and operating conditions. Our practical approach helps improve condensate management, reduce steam loss, and support more efficient thermal system operation.

Steam Trap Auditing

Failed or underperforming steam traps often go unnoticed while increasing energy consumption and operating costs. TruNorth conducts steam trap audits to evaluate system performance, identify inefficiencies, and quantify opportunities for cost savings and return on investment. By proactively identifying issues, clients can improve system efficiency, reduce wasted energy, and extend equipment life.

Condensate Return System Evaluation

An inefficient condensate return system can lead to unnecessary energy loss, higher operating costs, and increased strain on steam equipment. TruNorth evaluates condensate return systems to identify opportunities for improved heat recovery, reduced utility consumption, and better overall system performance. Our recommendations help clients improve operational efficiency while maximizing the value of existing infrastructure.

Heat Exchanger Evaluation and Testing

Heat exchangers that are not operating efficiently can impact production consistency, utility costs, and system reliability. TruNorth evaluates and tests heat exchangers to verify performance, identify fouling or efficiency losses, and determine opportunities for improvement. Our goal is to help clients maintain reliable thermal transfer performance while improving energy efficiency and reducing downtime risks.

3D Laser Scanning and Point Cloud Conversion

Accurate facility data is essential for successful design, planning, and execution. TruNorth uses advanced 3D laser scanning technology to capture precise measurements and convert them into detailed point cloud models that provide a reliable digital representation of existing conditions. This allows clients to make informed decisions with greater confidence, reduce field measurement errors, improve design accuracy, and minimize costly surprises during installation or construction.

Aerial/Drone Scanning for Site Imagery

Large or complex sites can be difficult and time-consuming to assess using traditional methods alone. TruNorth leverages aerial and drone scanning technology to provide detailed site imagery and data that improve visibility, planning, and project coordination. By capturing comprehensive site information quickly and safely, we help clients evaluate conditions more efficiently, improve communication across teams, and support smarter project decision-making.

Creating and Updating Building, Facility, and Equipment Layouts

Outdated or inaccurate facility layouts can create challenges during expansions, equipment installations, and operational planning. TruNorth develops and updates detailed building, facility, and equipment layouts that provide clients with accurate, usable documentation for day-to-day operations and future projects. Our layouts are designed to improve space utilization, support workflow efficiency, and simplify planning for modifications, relocations, and capital improvements.

Project Planning and As-Built Assessments

Successful projects depend on understanding real-world site conditions before work begins. TruNorth uses 3D laser scanning and LiDAR technology to support accurate project planning and as-built assessments, helping clients verify dimensions, identify potential conflicts early, and reduce execution risks. This proactive approach improves coordination, minimizes rework, and helps projects move forward with fewer delays and unexpected field changes.

Remote Access to Site Information

Quick access to accurate site information can significantly improve communication and project responsiveness. TruNorth helps clients leverage digital scanning technology to enable remote access to facility data, virtual site reviews, and collaborative project planning without requiring constant on-site visits. This improves decision-making speed, enhances coordination between teams, and allows stakeholders to stay informed and engaged regardless of location.

Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment

Safety issues are often most costly when they go unnoticed until an incident occurs. TruNorth conducts comprehensive hazard identification and risk assessments to help clients proactively uncover potential safety concerns before they impact personnel, production, or compliance. Our practical, operations-focused approach helps organizations reduce risk exposure, improve workplace safety, and create safer, more reliable operating environments.

Machine Guarding, Railings, and Pipe Insulation

Protecting employees requires more than meeting minimum requirements. It requires practical solutions that improve safety without disrupting operations. TruNorth helps clients implement machine guarding, railings, pipe insulation, and other facility safety improvements designed to reduce workplace hazards and support compliance with safety standards. Our focus is on creating safer work environments while maintaining operational efficiency and accessibility for maintenance and production teams.

Machine Center, Process Components, and Instruments Tagging

Clear equipment identification plays a critical role in maintenance efficiency, troubleshooting, and operational safety. TruNorth helps facilities implement organized tagging systems for machine centers, process components, and instrumentation that improve equipment traceability and simplify maintenance planning. Proper tagging helps reduce confusion in the field, supports faster servicing, and contributes to more effective long-term asset management.

Regular Maintenance and Inspections

Preventive maintenance and routine inspections are essential for reducing downtime, extending equipment life, and maintaining safe operations. TruNorth helps clients establish and support maintenance and inspection programs that identify issues before they become larger operational or safety concerns. By taking a proactive approach, facilities can improve reliability, reduce unexpected failures, and maintain safer working conditions across operations.

Dust Hazard Analysis (DHA) Surveys and Mitigation Plans

Combustible dust hazards can create serious safety and compliance risks if not properly managed. TruNorth conducts Dust Hazard Analysis (DHA) surveys and develops mitigation strategies that help facilities identify high-risk areas, reduce ignition hazards, and improve overall plant safety. Our approach focuses on practical solutions that help protect personnel, equipment, and operations while supporting compliance with applicable industry standards.

Food Safety Consulting, Auditing, and Design

In food manufacturing environments, operational efficiency must always align with product safety and regulatory compliance. TruNorth helps clients improve food safety practices through consulting, auditing, and facility design support that prioritizes sanitation, process control, and risk reduction. Our experience helps organizations maintain compliance, strengthen quality programs, and build safer production environments that protect both consumers and brand reputation.

Technology Integration for Improved Safety

Modern technology can significantly improve workplace safety when implemented effectively. TruNorth helps clients integrate safety-focused technologies that improve visibility, monitoring, communication, and operational control across facilities. By leveraging practical technology solutions, organizations can reduce risk exposure, improve response times, and create safer working environments for employees and operations teams.

Ergonomic Assessments & Design Implementation

Poor ergonomics can contribute to employee fatigue, repetitive strain injuries, and reduced productivity over time. TruNorth helps clients implement ergonomic improvements that support safer, more efficient work environments by reducing unnecessary strain and improving operator interaction with equipment and processes. Our ergonomic design approach helps improve employee comfort, support workforce retention, and contribute to long-term operational performance. Your assessment is then refunded with the purchase of equipment.