About The MCP Group of Companies

Providing worldwide consultancy and training services

The MCP Group of Companies, originally established in 1987, provide physical asset management and maintenance consulting and training services to clients on a worldwide basis.

We are focused on supporting clients’ future business objectives and proud that our history has given us the firm foundations upon which to grow and keep pace with industry changes.

Established network of offices and partners

Our staff, who are experienced managers, qualified engineers and trainers with extensive line management experience, provide consultancy and training services that will benefit any organisation that owns, maintains or operates plant and equipment.

We believe our people drive our business, differentiating us from our competitors – allowing us to build lasting value by finding the answers to client questions.

MCP works with multinational blue-chip organisations to support their organisational change requirements and cost improvement objectives. Our customers are drawn from a wide range of business sectors including Food & Drink, Pharmaceuticals, Utilities, Facilities Management, Transportation & Aviation, Chemical and Manufacturing sectors.

We have established a network of offices and partners that provide support to organisations that operate multi-site plants throughout the world. The breadth of our network supports an organisation’s business goals and provides them with the most up-to-date technological products, business insights and strategies.

Our Group of Companies

MCP Management Training

MCP Management Training

MCP Technical Training

MCP Technical Training

MCP Consulting

MCP Consulting

MCP AMIS

MCP AMIS

SMART Asset Maintenance

SMART Asset Maintenance

 

Asset management and maintenance consultancy

MCP offers a range of consultancy services that can be tailored to meet your needs. As your strategic partner, we can mobilise our team as a full-service provider or as part of an integrated task force. Our network supports your goals and provides clients with the best and most up-to-date business insights.

Through best practice and with 30 years of on-project experience, MCP’s targeted and benefits-driven approach can be used to help you continuously assess, engage and improve.

Our work drives operational cost reductions, efficiency improvements and includes:

  • Increased plant up-time (improved maintenance, spares and vendor support)

  • Improved technical competency

  • Improved performance (linked to operational KPIs)

  • Maintenance backlog reduction

  • Improved safety in operations and maintenance

  • Implementing a risk-based maintenance regime

  • Maximised labour utilisation or ‘time on tools’

  • Reduced capital expenditure with increased asset life and sustainability

Our consultants have the skills to help you each step of the way. They are Institute of Asset Management accredited and can support you in developing better awareness of your strengths and weaknesses, help to create an improvement plan, build capacity and deliver business change.


The AMIS Assessment

The AMIS Assessment is provided exclusively by MCP Consulting Group Ltd. and has been used for over 30 years to help organisations measure their asset maintenance performance on a consistent basis. The Assessment is recognised as the industry standard and provides the largest database of benchmarks and Key Performance Ratios of efficiency and effectiveness, worldwide.

Using a standard assessment system and defined maturity levels, the site-specific assessment is completed and includes inputs and involvement from maintenance, operations and selected site employees. The AMIS Assessment can be used for both inter- and intra-site comparisons for all industry sectors.


Smart Asset Maintenance

The increased interest in technological applications for improving equipment reliability has advanced rapidly over the last few years and these provide proven cost-effective solutions for improving equipment reliability through the use of predictive maintenance and condition machine monitoring systems.

We are experts in providing maintenance free, wireless IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things)/ Industry 4.0 solutions, bringing together technology, development, software, hardware and consulting, all with a single aim - to reduce costs.

Smart Asset Maintenance has been established to deliver scalable technology solutions to its clients.


Asset maintenance, management and technical skills training

MCP provides scheduled technical training courses and asset maintenance and management training courses at our locations in Reading and Solihull and on-site courses for your Operators, Technicians, Engineers and Operational Managers to ensure they have the appropriate skills to operate, maintain and manage your organisation.

We have extensive experience of training and coaching people within Food and Drink, Pharmaceuticals, Utilities, Facilities Management, Transportation & Aviation, Chemical and Manufacturing sectors. MCP is one of only 10 Trainers in the world endorsed by the Institute of Asset Management to provide training aligned to ISO 55000.