Shipping, Installation and Commissioning — What Happens After the Order

1. How the line is packed and loaded

Equipment leaving the test bay is partially disassembled, protected and crated for sea transport. What matters to the buyer is not the packing method but the paperwork that comes with it, because that is what customs and your unloading crew will work from.

The packing list gives crate dimensions and weights. Send it to your unloading contractor before the vessel arrives — that one email prevents the most common arrival problem, which is a crate heavier than the available forklift.

2. Shipping documents and customs

Container delays are administrative far more often than they are physical. The standard document set:

• الفاتورة التجارية وقائمة التعبئة
• بوليصة الشحن أو بوليصة الشحن بالسكك الحديدية
• شهادة المنشأ
• Conformity certificates for the destination — CE declaration, EAC/EAEU documentation for the Customs Union, SASO for Saudi Arabia
• Insurance certificate where the Incoterm places cover with the seller
• Fumigation certificate for wooden packing where the destination requires it

For Kazakhstan and other EAEU destinations, EAC certification requirements should be settled at contract stage, not at the border. Details in EAC certification for beverage machinery.

3. Site preparation — the schedule risk you control

Manufacturing lead time is fixed and visible. Site readiness is variable and invisible until the engineers land. This is why projects slip. Civil and utility work should run in parallel with manufacturing, starting from the approved layout drawing.

4. تركيب

Installation is local work under supervision. The sequence is fixed because each step depends on the tolerance achieved in the one before:

1. التمركز. Machines are set on the layout marks. The layout drawing was approved months earlier — check it against the real building before the crane arrives, not after.
2. Levelling. Each machine is levelled on its feet and anchored. Filling carousels are unforgiving of an out-of-level frame; fill accuracy problems traced back to levelling are common.
3. Conveyor assembly. Sections are joined following the numbering on the layout drawing and aligned to machine infeeds and discharges.
4. Utility connection. Power, compressed air, water and drains are connected by local contractors to the tie-in points. Our engineer verifies pressure, flow, voltage and phase rotation before anything is energised.
5. Alignment and clearance check. Transfer points, star wheel gaps and guide rail heights are set. This is where an experienced engineer earns the airfare.

5 التكليف

Commissioning escalates in stages and nothing advances until the previous stage is clean. The order protects both the machine and your material budget.

1. ركض جاف. Drives jogged, rotation verified, interlocks and emergency stops tested. No bottles, no liquid.
2. Empty bottle run. Bottles circulate without product until transfers run jam-free over a sustained period.
3. Water run. Fill level accuracy and capping torque are tuned and recorded on water.
4. Product run. Real product at reduced speed. Foaming, viscosity and temperature behaviour only appear here, which is why water testing never replaces it.
5. Speed ramp. Output is stepped towards rated speed while reject rate is watched.
6. Stability run and SAT. The line runs at rated output for the agreed continuous period; output, fill accuracy and reject rate are measured against the contract and signed.

Training runs alongside commissioning rather than after it, so operators learn on the moving line. Scope and structure are covered in global service and support.

6. When site output is below the factory figure

It happens, and the cause is almost never the machine that passed a witnessed FAT weeks earlier. Work through the variables in this order:

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