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Explore how DPS has delivered profitable, on-time, and on-budget projects for food and beverage manufacturers across the United States and Canada.
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Each case study reflects the DPS Design-Build-Manage methodology — single-point accountability, rigorous execution, and measurable outcomes for our clients.
Golden West Food Group — Co-Packing Plant Relocation
$18M facility delivered in just 10 weeks
- Total Investment
- $18M
- Weeks
- 10
- USDA Approval
- 100%
DPS relocated a value-added food processing operation from Los Angeles to Fort Worth — securing permits, managing cross-country machinery relocation, and commissioning the new facility in just 10 weeks with zero supply chain disruptions or customer delivery gaps.
Read Case StudyGround Beef Line Execution — Confidential Client
350,000 lbs/week line in just 6 months
- lbs/week
- 350K
- Months
- 6
- Early Production
- Week 11
DPS delivered a high-volume ground beef processing line inside an active Los Angeles facility — engineering all disciplines in 4 weeks, managing 12 subcontractors, and activating early production by Week 11 to capture peak season revenue for a leading meat processor.
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Albertsons — CIP System & Air Farm Upgrade
Zero unplanned downtime across 3 outages
- Outages
- 3
- Each
- <4 hrs
- Downtime
- Zero
DPS replaced aging CIP assets and pneumatic air farm infrastructure at a high-volume Albertsons facility — executing all tie-ins across three brief planned outages using offsite prefabrication and minute-by-minute execution checklists, on budget and ahead of schedule.
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Albertsons Phoenix — Ice Cream Plant Upgrade
Four major systems installed in one Sunday
- Systems
- 4
- Sunday
- 1
- Minutes Lost
- Zero
DPS coordinated the simultaneous installation of four critical infrastructure systems — air compressor, dairy processing equipment, CIP, and refrigeration — within a single Sunday evening sanitation window at Albertsons’ Phoenix ice cream plant, with production resuming Monday morning at full capacity.
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Confidential Client — Pie Bakery Facility Overhaul
Complete facility overhaul in one month
- Month
- 1
- Overruns
- Zero
- Coordination
- Multi-Trade
DPS delivered a full facility overhaul of an active pie bakery — replacing refrigeration, piping, underground plumbing, and electrical systems within a non-negotiable one-month outage window through multi-trade coordination in a highly congested production environment.
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Connect Project Evidence With Your Planning Decisions
Use the manufacturing scenarios pillar to frame your own constraints before comparing published projects. A relocation readiness checklist and a startup acceptance plan help distinguish reusable planning questions from results specific to a particular case.
Review industry requirements alongside the project evidence, then bring a defined scope to the project inquiry form. The planning guides below are decision frameworks, not additional case studies or promises to reproduce a published result.
Scenario
Equipment & Plant Relocation
Treat relocation as a production-system project: assess the assets, prepare the destination, preserve equipment condition, and control the restart sequence.
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Commissioning & Production Startup Planning
Define the evidence, responsibilities, and readiness gates needed to move from installed equipment to controlled production and operational handover.
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Production Startup & Handover Readiness
Turn a fragmented startup punch list into a coordinated readiness plan with clear prerequisites, evidence owners, and release decisions.
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