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Lifecycle360 Services

CPM|Crown’s Lifecycle360 is your single source for comprehensive support services to optimize your oilseed, renewable fuel or specialty processing facility’s lifecycle. From planning to long-term maintenance, our specialists have executed thousands of projects worldwide. With Lifecycle360, you can boost efficiency, cut costs, plan maintenance, innovate, train your team, and avoid unexpected shutdowns.

CPM|Crown is ready to partner with you to create the optimal Lifecycle360 package for your operations. Each service is tailored to different stages of your plant’s lifecycle and can be used individually or in combination with our equipment and technology. Our experts bring local knowledge and global experience to support you wherever you are.

Innovation Services

The Global Innovation Center (GIC) is a state-of-the-art facility for piloting, testing, and commercializing new products and processes. Our 15,000 square foot pilot plant, lab, and training center offer real-world testing capabilities in a safe and controlled environment.

At the GIC, you can work with Crown’s engineering and R&D teams to develop and test new ideas. Our innovative equipment and deep expertise help you bring products to market faster with increased confidence.

Customer Benefits:

  • Explore new products and new feedstocks
  • Engineer unique, better processes
  • Increase accuracy of cost estimates
  • Confidently move from benchtop to commercialization

Pre-Engineering Services

Lifecycle360 Pre-Engineering Services increase ROI confidence in process technology, scope, and budget. Our progressive engineering service packages leverage 145 years of expertise to increase project success.

Work with our experts to understand project scope, get budget quotes, and receive high-quality deliverables.

Customer Benefits:

  • Pre-engineering can enable +/-20% investment confidence
  • Conceptual engineering and pre-engineering packages available
  • Conceptual engineering can enable +/- 50% investment confidence

Construction Support Services

Avoid delays with CPM|Crown’s Lifecycle360 Construction Support Services. Our global team helps streamline project planning for faster start-ups and fewer costly changes.

With Crown’s Construction Support, you can maximize your investment, reduce emergencies, and enjoy smoother startups.

Customer Benefits:

  • Continuity with aftermarket services
  • Maximize investment
  • Better awareness and coordination throughout process
  • Reduce emergencies and change orders

Automation Services

Lifecycle360 offers secure Automation Services backed by unmatched experience. We manage all aspects of process automation, delivering solutions with quick paybacks.

Our Automation Support integrates the Industrial Internet of Things, offering remote monitoring, predictive maintenance, and enhanced safety.

Customer Benefits:

  • Single-solutions provider = no gaps in planning and execution
  • Make data-driven, real-time decisions
  • Confidence your operation is running at max efficiency
  • Save time and hassle of coordinating services
  • Out-of-the-box solutions = greater time savings

Training Services

Lifecycle 360 Training Services teach your team to operate and maintain our technology, creating a safer and more efficient work environment.

Our Training Specialists draw from over 200 subject matter experts to teach all aspects of oilseed plant theory, design and operation. We offer flexible training locations and immersive modules tailored to your needs.

Customer Benefits:

  • Dedicated team of training specialists
  • Increase safety, efficiency and product quality consistency
  • Higher employee confidence, job satisfaction and retention
  • Dynamic, experiential learning on real operating equipment

Maintenance Support Services

Lifecycle360 Maintenance Support Services help you maximize plant operations and achieve more uptime. Our specialists enhance your team’s ability to inspect, assess, plan, troubleshoot, and improve your plant’s lifecycle.

Customer Benefits:

  • Maximize facility uptime
  • Maximize life of equipment and parts
  • Minimize surprises and costs
  • Long-term planning to minimize replacement costs

Optimizing Services

Lifecycle360 Optimizing Services focus on holistic process improvements to increase yields, quality, and cost efficiency. Using state-of-the-art process simulation software, we identify savings and process improvements, typically achieving payback in under two years. With Crown, you can make informed decisions about plant improvements and achieve your sustainability goals.

Customer Benefits:

  • Energy savings: 5-15%
  • Water and effluent reduction: 5-25%
  • Raw material savings: 2-5%
  • Capacity increases: 2-10%

Don’t go it alone. Put us to work for you.

Achieve your best results and have peace of mind at every stage of your plant’s lifecycle with CPM Crown’s Lifecycle360 Services –
your Single-Source Support Services.