Miller Magazine Issue: 122 February 2020

64 MILLER / FEBRUARY 2020 The new approach to process design is the interaction amongst all systems, their interface and the streamline of functions and processes that take place from A to Z. By new design, an industrial process may need less equipment, or better graded and selected equipment, consume less energy, be more efficient and work in a straight operational line fully integrated…Three objectives paramount to the food industry today: economic results, quality of product, environment and working conditions. Milling process project optimisation through strategic design More than ever before applied design has pla- yed a fundamental role in the “thinking” of a new process line, a new facility, a sea, rail or land transport terminal…and more than ever applied to a complete interface and inter functionality of all systems. Likewise, analysis of existing facilities under design reprocess may show a cost-cutting margin of relevant importance when adequately implemented. This study enhances the main aspects of this subject by considering the advantages of a cor- rectly thought of the project, by planning in advance the whole integrated systems that will complete the production steps, and by re’thin- king’ the existing process facilities. Design by itself, no longer applicable… History tells us something Seeing high-quality process facilities, magni- ficent milling machinery, high quality conveying Alex Bignoli Seward Project and Contracting Design COGEA Ltd-Rome Alex Bignoli Seward is an economist dedicated to project and business design and international commodity markets, stakeholder and responsible for project design at COGEA Ltd, a company part of the COGEA Group, leaders in Italy with public and private sector in technical assistance. Various design projects have been successfully developed in the agribusiness field which have derived in the specialization of strategic design for industrial process plants.