Why More and More Manufacturers Rely On Consulting For Tank and Pressure Vessel Engineering and Design

Manufacturers who build for industries that require tanks and pressure vessels are recognizing the value of independent engineering services for concepting, design, analysis, and more. 

Although many manufacturing companies often have capable engineers on their teams, a partnership with a firm that specializes in tanks and vessels proves useful in highly practical and even unexpected ways, including positioning your business for sustainable growth. 

Find out why manufacturers are capitalizing on this trend to ensure their products and projects perform as expected, and how Finite Engineering approaches our role as a leading engineering consultant.

Get a Fresh Set Of Eyes On Your Project

Whether a manufacturer needs support for water storage tank design, fuel transfer tank design, or any other process tank or pressure vessel, consulting engineers provide perspective for your project, including concepting, material selection, design, documentation, and more. These services provide assurance for your team about a design’s viability, such as the necessary calculations associated with finite element analysis. 

Inviting a tank and vessel design team into the production process may yield a new approach or even the discovery of an unseen error that could affect the project after it has gone to market. At Finite Engineering, our vast experience in the tank and vessel industry allows us to make accurate assessments and provide support for your current projects at any phase of production to ensure you’re on track for marketplace success.

Reduce Risk With Tank-and-Vessel-Specific Expertise

Finding ways to mitigate risk is a core principle for superior engineering teams, so that your business can feel confident that your products will perform as expected in the field. Therefore, hiring an excellent consulting engineering firm can provide a significant return on investment. This team can perform stress analyses on your project or contribute comprehensive production development services.

Finite Engineering’s experience in both the manufacturing and engineering world tells us that we too often assume that our risk level is zero. We’ve seen original designs get significant attention and testing for reliability and performance. Yet as companies request bigger, faster, lighter, or simply different configurations of a product, the impulse is to simply scale the existing design, assuming that the original product’s effectiveness will maintain itself under new conditions. Of course, this is not always the case, but we don’t recognize what has happened until after there is an equipment failure and it becomes apparent that further engineering was needed to ensure scalability.

An investment in risk mitigation means avoiding risks you may be exposed to, especially during a period of growth. For example, new challenges arise when your manufacturing company has been hired to work in a new industry for a brand-new client, the requested design is particularly unique, or you’ve been asked to build a product you’ve already mastered, but at a larger scale. The right consulting team can support you through this process with a depth of experience in many industries that require tanks and pressure vessels. 

Finite Engineering has experience in over 40 industries, delivering services such as new product development for construction equipment, mining and energy, industrial manufacturing, waste and refuse, and more. Our diverse knowledge allows us to apply our skill set to a broad set of engineering challenges, whether you’re focused on water storage tank design, fuel transfer tank design, and other storage solutions. 

Tank and Pressure Vessel Engineering and Design Teams Free Up Resources For Other Priorities - and Exponential Growth

Operations teams discover that hiring a leading tank and pressure vessel engineering and design firm allows engineers to focus on additional projects, instead of feeling spread thin. 

These projects may include forging paths into new markets and revenue sources. Receiving assistance from an outside team allows engineering teams to exclusively put their energy into critical initiatives.

A manufacturing business’s willingness to tap consultants to broaden their impact on a variety of industries is a hallmark of today’s successful organizations. These businesses are capable of exponential growth because they are willing to seek help at critical points in the process of making inroads for new opportunities and scalability, while remaining organizationally lean. Finite Engineering can help your business grow with timely, results-driven engineering support.

Tank and Vessel Design Teams Know Code and Compliance 

Behind a tank and vessel design team’s dynamic ability to support a manufacturing team is their expansive knowledge of code requirements. Whether a business needs water storage tank designs, fuel transfer tank designs, or any other dry or liquid storage, hiring engineers that can guide you through code compliance is critical.

Finite Engineering possesses this expertise for tanks and pressure vessels, including ASME, API, AWWA, UL, and others. We look forward to helping your team ensure you’ve addressed compliance requirements, even for non-traditional designs.

Our Tank and Pressure Vessel Engineering and Design Team Work As an Extension Of Your Team

Manufacturing companies and their engineering departments work hard to establish processes and procedures that help their business run smoothly and efficiently. It is understandable that some companies may be resistant to outside consulting, as it may seem like this kind of help could affect the rhythm of current operations. 

At Finite Engineering, we understand this concern - and we know how to address it for our clients’ benefit. We’ve mastered the art of working as an extension of your engineering department, so that our contributions blend seamlessly with your workflow. Every tank and vessel design project receives a dedicated web-based dashboard via Smartsheet. Our goal is complete transparency and oversight at every stage. We make project management simple, so the focus remains on solving problems and achieving results. We completely tune ourselves into your needs, so our work makes your business’ goals easier, never harder. 

Ultimately, our clients come away from their first time working with us feeling certain that a long-term partnership for engineering support lies ahead. Contact Finite Engineering to discover how we can help you over your biggest engineering hurdles. Send us a message online or call us at (913) 681-8282.