Engineers who Deliver Manufacturing Excellence

Employee Owned

Our company is proudly employee-owned, ensuring that our team’s success is directly aligned with our clients’ best interests. As an independent firm – free from supplier, contractor, or external consulting ties – we deliver truly impartial, unbiased expertise on every project.

As an employee-owned business, our people are truly invested in your success. With a shared sense of ownership, they go above and beyond to deliver exceptional service – driven by pride, passion, and a commitment to exceeding client expectations.

In November 2024, we were proud to be named ‘EO Rising Star of the Year’ at the prestigious UK Employee Ownership Awards – a powerful recognition of our people-first culture and unwavering dedication to delivering outstanding results for our clients.

Manufacturing Excellence

We take responsibility for delivering major capital engineering and manufacturing improvement projects.

Capacity
Optimising production planning; new production lines for new products; and removing constraints, are typical capacity expansion projects that we deliver.

Cost
Rationalising production capacity; automation; increasing yield and reducing waste through intelligent design and planning, are typical examples of cost-saving projects that we deliver.

Quality
Working in food and pharma means that all our projects have the highest quality standards. We qualify and validate all our own projects.

Compliance
Our knowledge of pharma and food regulations together with health and safety means that we are often asked to assess, recommend and deliver compliance projects.

Support
Factory infrastructure replacement, and streamlining support services, are projects that we deliver to mitigate risk and improve business efficiency to move closer to our goal of manufacturing excellence.

Operational Excellence

Smart Factory is on our doorstep and it’s not going away anytime soon. It provides the opportunity to use modern technology to make data centred decisions. Here at JPH we have a plethora of tools at our disposal to assist you in the Smart Factory journey.

MXL
MXL Smart Factory software is a flexible tool which enables you to model your factory from end to end, create live or static digital twins, scenario plan and more. Using MXL, we can make comparative costs and benefits across equipment, labour and energy, therefore facilitating investment decisions.

Data Collection
Rationalising production capacity; automation; increasing yield and reducing waste through intelligent design and planning, are typical examples of cost-saving projects that we deliver.

Data Mapping
A key step in data management. We work with you to ensure that data flows correctly throughout your organisation by looking at Data Architecture and Database Design.

Smart Factory Assessment
What is your Smart Factory IQ? We use our expertise to assess your current status as a Smart Factory. By performing technical reviews and gap analyses, we start to build a picture of the scope of works.

Workshop
We speak to your employees, ranging from line workers to senior management, about their daily challenges and what their vision of a Smart Factory would encompass. We also relay the message that the Smart Factory is a tool not a threat.

Road Map Development
Presenting our findings and working with you to build a clear timeline for the Smart Factory journey – including a Cost/Benefit analysis.

Pharmaceutical Excellence

We provide one-stop, expert support to the pharma, biopharma and medical devices industries, delivering both turnkey and standard solutions.

Target-Driven Delivery Ethic
We offer a professional and well-practiced service, resulting in complete solutions that fulfil the specific requirements of all our clients, whatever the sector, whatever the challenge.

One Stop, Full Product Lifecycle Coverage
Our portfolio of services covers all stages of the product lifecycle and is delivered by a team of specialists including chartered engineers, quality professionals, and accredited project managers with extensive sector knowledge and pharma experience.

Quality Driven
We apply the principles of QMS by applying validation, qualification, compliance and GMP. We combine this with collaboration and knowledge sharing to appreciably improve overall quality resulting in more efficient safe regulated improved products and processes.

Covering Start-up to Fully Established Enterprises
We apply the principles of QMS by applying validation, qualification, compliance and GMP. We combine this with collaboration and knowledge sharing to appreciably improve overall quality resulting in more efficient safe regulated improved products and processes.

Culture
We pride ourselves in forming long-lasting relationships as well as the results we achieve. We welcome the opportunity to explore building new partnerships with organisations such as yours.

Deep Dive: The Pharmaceutical Expansion Plan and Re-Plan

Our pharmaceutical client needed to double tablet production – but the disruption caused by manufacturer delays would need some expert support…

JPH’s work on this particular project began in 2016. Our client – a UK-based pharmaceutical manufacturer – needed to double their output of tablets and planned to do this by duplicating the equipment and procedures they already had in place. The main features of this equipment were a drum blender and hoist, and a tablet compression machine – with all of the installation, compliance and safety standards that those intricately-calibrated devices require.

This type of installation requires detailed analysis, quality assurance and tight project management: every key part must be manufactured, tested and installed to the highest standards, as there is no room for error. Lacking the resources to dedicate to this project themselves, they approached us to take on delivery, and all that would entail.

Despite the challenges that the supplier delays presented, we were able to double tablet production to all of the vital industry and safety standards required. With monthly stakeholder meetings, and weekly project team meetings with the client as well, we were able to give them the reassurance and confidence they needed that the project would be delivered – with all the due diligence and close supplier management that we brought to the project as well.

That successful production has continued since this project concluded in 2017 – and our relationship with that client has continued as well, as we deliver larger and even more complex production line projects, and act on their behalf as liaison with machine manufacturers.

Deep Dive: The Packing Production Puzzle

When demand outstrips supply, there are several paths to take. This is how we solved the Packing Production Line Puzzle…

Our client is a major manufacturer, and a new customer preference in packaging was becoming a trend they couldn’t ignore. Sales of their product sold in packets, rather than traditional boxes, were far outstripping the others; and they needed to boost the numbers of packet products to meet that demand. Our client knew they would need to make changes within their production lines to address this, along with some other issues to solve. Here’s a breakdown in summary of the puzzle in front of them:

• Product A: High demand for packets over boxes, with obsolete box machinery. Unsuitable cases requiring unnecessary repackaging.
• Product B: Lower sales than product A and distributed only in the UK produced with outdated packet machinery in need of replacement.
• Increasing packet demand with no way to change the existing production line pack mix to meet that demand.
• No room to install any new equipment alongside the current lines.

These were the problems to solve. With no room for extra packing lines, the client planned to replace Product A’s line with new machinery that would both solve the case problem, and increase packet production capabilities. They also proposed a replacement to Product B’s line machinery at the same time – so two full-scale line replacements, with a notional budget of £5million to achieve them.

From the earliest stage of knowing a change was needed, JPH were able to offer objective, expert  support for decision-making, followed by a fully managed installation service. Our clients could have 100% confidence that their major investment would return the greatest benefit to them, and that their new equipment was installed to all industry standards – without needing to have any of that expertise in-house.