Engineering Excellence

Beyond compliance, exceeding expectations, innovative solutions are the core values at Pandora. We cannot increase profits and move beyond compliance using the same approach as we have used in the past and at Pandora we look to embrace radical design to dissolve problems and eliminate the limitations of the current process.

The backbone of every project is safety better than regulatory compliance. Pandora treats every project as a socio-technical system that requires the integration of the best technical solution with human factors in operation.

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Core Disciplines

Front End Design

The greatest opportunity to improve productivity and safety, as well as to reduce capital costs occur during Front End Design. With experience in delivering successful designs from traditional batch facilities to intensified small scale continuous facilities we understand how to achieve outstanding value in capital and life cycle terms.

Pressure Relief

Pressure relief is a statutory requirement and excellent documentation is foundational in being able to assure regulators that the whole systems has been assessed correctly. However, there are more ways to comply than 'end-of-pipe' solutions and these intrinsic safety measures and proven 'unconventional' design are essential in areas such as polymerisation and complex chemistry.

Risk Assessment

Risk is a complex subject. Great risk assessments consider more than the average values from standard tables and considers the variability of the probabilities. There is also a need to recognise the uncertainty in all aspects of the assessment; including those that may be longer term effects on the organisation. Some assessments lend themselves to straightforward traditional approaches while others need a deeper consideration of the complexity involved.

Human Factors

At Pandora we view Human Factors as more than a simple performance assessment. Business is a complex adaptive system (CAS) and not fully considering the human component can have as massive impact on your organisational performance. The difference between typical and excellent psychosocial and psychological safety can be up to 100% on the triple bottom line.

About Pandora

Established in 2004, Pandora Consultancy was created to bring the one thing left in Pandora's Box to it's clients - hope. Founded on 20 years experience in process design, project management and process safety the company has continued to grow and collaborate with various partners to bring the best available technical expertise to bear on our clients problems.

Pandora has focused on the principle that factories are Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS). What this means is that every project is more than "just engineering"; it is a socio-technical system that needs to be optimised for both the technical and human components.

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CHAPLIN

CHAPLIN (Compressible Homoegenuous and Adiabatic Loss In a Network) is a tool for model flow in piping networks using a mixture of models. Read more..

Teal4 Behaviour

Safety rests on what people do; or how they behave. The Teal4 model dates back to work by ICI in the 1980's with evidence based models on safety and productivity excellence. Read more..

InnovationWorks

InnovationWorks is the software implementation of the Design Breakdown Structure methodology that maximises innovation in projects or product development. Read more..