CM Plus will support Project as One-Stop Service Provider.
CM Plus will support clients for their construction projects as “One-Stop Service Provider” in Japan including Southeast Asian countries, not only in the fields of pharmaceuticals production / R&D facilities, but also various kinds of production facilities for foods, home cares, cosmetics, datacenter, semiconductor, etc.
Our professionals with plentiful experience in overseas projects will take care of such projects, taking into account (1) different languages, (2) different cultures, customs, regulations, and (3) difficulties in communications between remote locations, etc., which are common issues in overseas projects.
We will respond to the clients’ concerns with overseas project execution, especially about lack of information on the local conditions, such as industrial complex, regulations, cost, construction market situations, and labors wages, etc., and also concerns about government applications. For the foreign investors those who plan to build a factory in Japan, CM Plus provides the same concept of one-stop service from feasibility study and/or land selection to facility commissioning and validations.
Steps of factory construction project
We will execute a project in a flow as shown below.
CM Plus will execute a project in a manner to protect the client’s interests from the planning phase to the completion for the facilities.
Business Planning to Basic Planning
What the client needs to realize in the project should be documented. We will help the client to build the business plan by incorporating your idea.
We can support various surveys in the planning stage, formulation of policies and strategies based on those surveys, and the development of entry plans. Additionally, we can leverage personnel and networks at our local offices in various countries to support the realization of your plans. We will customize and propose the necessary range of support to meet your specific needs.
Flow and Key Points
Formulation of Sales Strategy
Formulate sales targets and strategies, and clarify the requirements for manufacturing.
- Narrowing Down Potential Sales Countries
- Conduct market research in target countries.
- Consider marketing approach methods.
- Estimate sales potential and potential business scale.
Examination of Production System and Expansion Plan
Design the production system and formulate the expansion plan, considering various conditions.
- Narrowing Down Factory Construction Areas
- Investigate the availability and costs of various production factors in the target countries.
- Feasibility study, business and investment.
Examination of Procurement System
Understand procurement constraints that affect the production system.
- Investigate quantities of resources, suppliers, etc. for the target materials.
- Investigate the form, specifications, and prices of materials that can be procured.
Basic Design
We will develop the basic design together with the client towards realization of the project.
We will clarify the client’s required specifications (User Requirement=UR) based on their voices from the business planning phase, and prepare basic design documents. We will propose the optimum design for facilities by adding the local uniqueness obtained through plentiful experience in production facilities projects.
CM Plus would,
- Carry out basic design for building, air-conditioning, electrical and utility facilities aligned with production facilities, as a professional for production facility engineering, well knowing that preparing feasible basic design is the first step to a project success.
- Have staff in Japan cooperate with its local staff to execute a project.
- Estimate overall budgetary cost for construction.
Inquiries
CM Plus will assist the client to make inquiries for production facilities and for construction in order to secure appropriate quality within a budget.
Selection of appropriate construction contractor(s) is an important factor for a project success. CM Plus will propose a best formation, including whether relying on Japanese contractor(s) or employing local contractor(s), considering characteristics of the client’s project and facilities, and also fully support them for evaluation and selection of contractor(s)
Because the engineering information on production facilities have to be incorporated into the architectural design, inquiries for production facilities will be issued normally at the start of basic design. We will also help the client select optimum equipment supplier(s) from global market if necessary.
Advice for Selection of Construction Contractor(s)
For example, when you try to save cost by ordering local construction contractor(s), inquiries should be issued at the end of detail design phase. When you try risk hedging by issuing inquiries to Japanese contractor(s), purchase order should be issued on a design/construction basis (on a design-build basis) at the end of basic design phase.
Detail Design
We will manage detailed design for construction
as well as quality, schedule and cost.
We will manage detailed design to ensure that it proceeds in line with the client’s budget, considering local regulations, construction methods and materials. We will also make overall coordination with production facilities at this phase so that construction proceeds smoothly without rework at site.
The Points
We will coordinate among building, building facilities and production facilities, including mating points adjustments.
- Schedule adjustment → to prepare daily schedule for work adjustment
- Physical mating points adjustment → to prepare composite drawings with all facilities layered for adjustment of all facilities.
Construction
We will manage construction to keep schedule, quality and cost.
We will manage construction to keep schedule, cost and quality as planned with our staff stationed at site having the client’s viewpoints for overall construction and erection of production facilities.
Final Inspection
It is an important quality assurance activity prior to turnover
of the facilities. We will carry out inspections strictly on behalf of the client.
We will carry out inspections severely as a third party so that it will lead to smooth start-up of the facilities by assuring that construction has been implemented as shown in the design drawings.
Operation
We will propose the best formation for project execution.
The important thing is to optimize the combination of quality, cost and schedule. We will support clients to realize the optimum project execution formation fit for the purpose through close communications.
A Network of CM Plus’s foreign group companies will support clients for oversea projects.
CM Plus Japan, will support clients in coordination, as a group, with a network in foreign group companies (Singapore, Vietnam and Indonesia) and the local partners for the construction projects for client’s overseas facilities in all phases of a project, from business planning to construction and commissioning.
An Example of Coordination between Head Quarter in Japan and its Foreign Group Companies.
While mainly basic planning and basic design is carried out in Japan even for oversea projects, experienced senior engineer(s) could be stationed at the country where the project is built in to support the client together with the capable local engineers in all project phases from inquiries to government applications, detail design supervision/fabrication control, construction/erection supervision to commissioning.
Cooperation between Japan and a network of local group companies, as a single CM Plus group, will lead the client’s project to the successful goal.
CM Plus Overseas Network
We have also partnered with companies in Southeast Asian countries such as Malaysia, India, the Philippines, Thailand, as well as in the United States of America, Ireland, and the Netherlands.
A smooth project execution will get projects realize cost saving and quality work.
CM Plus is a team of professionals for production facility engineering, and optimize the cost while maintaining the required quality. We think the following steps are normally processed for cost saving and quality work taking into account the characteristics of projects.
To start helping a client from feasibility study in a country chosen for the project.
A feasibility study which may be composed of selection of land, project execution strategy, master scheduling, assumption of investment amount will be the first task. We will help clients to select a right location for the facilities considering various information of industrial development zones, such as human resources and neighboring educational circumstances, etc. We will also support client’s investment scenario to fit for the production plan.
Preparation of specifications and drawings clearly reflecting the client’s requirements (preparation of appropriate client’s requirements [User Requirement] and inquiry package for construction companies.)
Experienced senior CM Plus engineers will materialize the facilities in client’s mind on design deliverables!
To select appropriate construction contractor(s) and equipment/device vendors based on the design documents
CM Plus will support a client to select cost-competitive and reliable construction contractor(s), and also support client for procurement of high quality and inexpensive production equipment from the global market.
Obtaining relevant authorities’ approvals smoothly
CM Plus will fully support a client for government applications and obtaining of approval and authorization, engaging the engineers who are familiar with statutory situation for the construction site.
Maintaining the schedule, and minimizing additional construction cost
Maintaining the schedule while keeping the required quality and minimizing additional cost will be the most important issue for project execution.
We will resolve the client’s issues with outstanding technical performance and professional management capability.
Communication
We will use a collaboration base, CORRESSA (developed by CM Plus) as a communication tool among the parties concerned. CORRESSA is a tool stuffed full of professional know-how and expertise of project managers who have overcome various kinds of problems often encountered in the course of project execution.
CORRESSA, a tool using a cloud, enables project execution to be carried out wherever you are. By using the tool, smooth exchange of documents with overseas companies and overseas sites will be realized.
Project case of Overseas Supporting Work
We have a lot of performances primarily in Vietnam and Indonesia. We have had a lot of requests for basic planning and basic design, validation management as well as overall project management.
Client and Project: A Corp. (Pharmaceutical), a new construction work for parenteral products production building.
Period | 2013 to 2015 |
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Location | Indonesia |
Scope of Work | Overall project management with review of basic design, detail design supervision, fabrication control and construction supervision |
Client and Project: B Corp. (Pharmaceutical), Revamp work of solid dose forms building
Period | 2016 to 2017 |
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Location | India |
Scope of Work | Review of basic design, detail design supervision and construction supervision, and validation management |
Client and Project: C Corp. (spice manufacturer), a new construction work for spice production building
Period | 2016 to 2019 |
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Location | Indonesia |
Scope of Work | Overall project management with basic planning and basic design, inquiries, and construction supervision |
Client and Project: D Corp. (medical devices manufacturer), a new construction work for medical devices production building
Period | 2018 to 2021 |
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Location | Vietnam |
Scope of Work | Basic planning and basic design, inquiries, detail design supervision, fabrication control, construction supervision and validation management |
Client and Project: E Corp. (medical devices manufacturer), a new construction work for medical devices production building
Period | 2012 to 2013 |
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Location | Vietnam |
Scope of Work | Validation management |