The services offered by EPC TOSCANO LTDA., in the areas of projects, maintenance, materials and quality and productivity are:

• Training of personnel
• Consulting for corporate entitities to modernize and bring them up-to-date
• Conceptualizing, developing and completing projects in the previously mentioned areas
• Inspections
• Audits

The services offered by EPC TOSCANO LTDA., are guaranteed by a system that governs quality assurance, on-time delivery, and cost guarantees with respect to the services rendered. These guarantees are meant to assure our customers and that EPC TOSCANO LTDA., will complete as contractually established the pre-established requirements of the projects undertaken.

• Projects Total Management since the feasibility phase to the start up.

• Expertise and international resources

• Management project Information system: :

- Organization
- Resources of materials and equipment
- Personal
- Planning and Scheduling
- Budgeting
- Registry of information of costs and measurement of the advance of the    works

The projects undertaken in the field involve the disciplines of civil, mechanical, piping, electrical and instrumental engineering and entail the following phases:

ENGINEERING

EPC TOSCANO carries out the following tasks within engineering:

• Project planning
• Purchasing and construction specifications
• Calculations
• Designs
• Schematics
• Budgets
• Technical requirements


PURCHASING MANAGEMENT

EPC TOSCANO manages the following tasks:

• MR material requisitions
• MR technical and economic evaluations of MR
• MR approvals
• Purchase Orders PO
• Equipments construction follow-up
• Transportation follow-up
• Nationalization


CONSTRUCTION

EPC TOSCANO manages the following field construction work:

• Engineering reformulation
• Earth removal at the construction area
• Digs and refills
• Laying foundations and structures
• Equipment construction on-site
• Piping connections
• Electric and instrument installations

The services in the maintenance arena entails the disciplines of civil, mechanical, piping, electrical and instrumental engineering within the following phases:

MAINTENANCE DIAGNOSTICS

The work sequence managed by EPC TOSCANO during the diagnostic phase is:

• Population Planning
• Selection of the variables to be analyzed (Temperature, Pressure, etc.)
• Calculation of the control limits
• Measurement of the variables
• Registration of the variables
• Establishment of non-conformities (a comparison between the control limits and variables in measurement)
• Corrective actions

PLANNING MAINTENANCE

The work sequence managed by EPC TOSCANO during the planning maintenance phase is :

• Organization (Defining the objective and scope of the work and the organizational structure)
• Plan the work sequence
• Budget
• Obtaining authorizations
• Programming resource use
• Execution of the project
• Control


CORRECTIVE MAINTENANCE

• The work sequence managed by EPC TOSCANO during the Corrective and/or Routine Equipment Maintenance is:

• To open - To test
• To clean
• To inspect
• To repair
• To review
• To close

Services in the area of materials field involve the disciplines of civil, mechanical, piping, electrical and instrumental engineering and entail the following phases:

PURCHASING

The work sequence managed by EPC TOSCANO during the purchasing phase is:

• The elaboration of MR Material requisitions
• MR Technical-economic evaluation
• MR approvals
• The elaboration of PO Purchase
• Equipment construction follow-up
• Transportation follow-up
• Nationalization


STORAGE


The work sequence managed by EPC TOSCANO during the storage phase is:

• Receipt of materials (including preparing RMR materials report)
• On-site review of material delivered
• Quantity and quality characteristics measurements
• Acceptance or refusal of materials
• Codification of materials
• Storage
• Dispatch (Materials delivery)


INVENTORIES AND REPOSSESION

The work sequence managed by EPC TOSCANO during the inventory and repossesion phase is:

• Inventory (stock)
• Register
• Calculate (establishment of stock levels MINIMAX)
• Compare (MINIMAX vs. stock)
• Recommend
• Decide actions to be followed
• Replacement

The services EPC TOSCANO LTDA for the efficient implementation of Quality Systems to meet specific company needs are:

Diagnosis and Planning

• Study of actual Quality System in accordance to the model selected: ISO9000, QS 9000, BPM, BPL, ISO 14000, HSEQ, EAQF.

• Training personnel with Quality System responsibilities to read model requirements correctly.

• Establishment of the Action Plan to meet the model requirements, prepared in conjunction with company personnel


Assessment

• Technical assistance and support to find the best alternatives to execute the established activities in the Action Plan.

• Specialized guidance in projects and particularly activities related to the Quality System.

• Follow-up to the activities and results of the Action Plan or to specific projects with permanent feedback to the company’s management.


Audit

• Prepare and carry out internal audits of the elements and/or quality system processes when a independent counselor is required.

• Prepare an audit report containing observations and non-conformities identified

• Provide feedback to management on the effectiveness of the elements and/or processes audited -- verifying the application of provisions and completion of the quality-related objectives.


Training-Consulting

• Preparation of educational activities, teaching materials and educational exercises in accordance with a particular company’s needs.

• Training and specialized counseling in order to gather and to apply knowledge-base and techniques to meet the relevant corporate reality.

• Training company personnel on topics such as: Planning, Control, Quality Assurance and/or Continuous Quality Improvement with the intent to permanently apply these bases of knowledge and techniques.

The new engineering technologies used by EPC TOSCANO, in its proposals to manage all systems, are transferred to our customers through the representation of specialized companies worldwide.

• Project Management
• Process and Resource Re-engineering
• Real Time Information Services
• On time Purchasing and Inventoring logistics with zero-inventories
• Modular and package Design Engineering
• Plants Control Process Automation with Instrumentation of Distributed Control Systems DCS and Advanced APC Process Control
• Regulation and protection of equipment/systems through Programmable PLC Logic Controls.
• Energy conservation
• Total Quality Control with zero-defects
• ISO 9000 Quality Assurance
• Environmental Control with zero-pollution
• Security and loss prevention
• Equipment, Teams, and Maintenance