ACE USA Property Engineering will help you identify your exposures for business interruption by working with you to identify and quantify your exposure to disruptions, and by helping you to develop planning to minimize these exposures. The purpose the assessments is to assist you in pre-planning for an emergency so that a recovery can be accomplished in the shortest possible time. Typical of this review would be the analysis of the data processing operation in which items like the availability of an off site backup tape storage and a hot site are reviewed. This also includes the review of the manufacturing process to identify bottlenecks, your supply and distribution chains, and even specific pieces of machinery.
On-site interviews with plant personnel regarding business operations and practices is used to identify single source suppliers, critical equipment, the lead times on specialized equipment replacement, and exposures from the utility arrangement and reliability.
The entire site is reviewed to determine where there are exposures which would cause an interruption in the productive capacity of the plant or a organization. This assessment will assist in the development of a written plan, if one is not available.