Commissioning Management for Complex Industrial Projects

You need transparency, clear priorities, and a commissioning process that reliably moves your project forward.

Construction is progressing and deadlines are approaching – but can you reliably say which systems are actually ready for commissioning?

Documentation is incomplete. Interfaces remain unresolved. Turnover packages are stalled. Subcontractors are working alongside each other without sufficient coordination, following different priorities, and failing to provide information or deliverables on time. Open items are blocking downstream systems, and your commissioning schedule is increasingly being driven by the most urgent problems.

Faust Project Execution creates the structure you need to manage your commissioning reliably.

You gain a clear view of the actual system status, outstanding prerequisites, critical dependencies, and the next decisions that need to be made. Your commissioning teams, specialist contractors, and subcontractors work with clearly defined responsibilities, aligned priorities, and a common schedule and system logic.

Faust Project Execution takes responsibility for the strategic preparation, operational management, and coordinated execution of your commissioning activities. The technical execution on machines, equipment, and systems remains with your qualified commissioning teams, specialist contractors, and subcontractors. Faust Project Execution ensures that their activities, information, and decisions come together at the right time.

Ideally, this support begins early in your EPC project. The requirements of the later commissioning phase are integrated into the engineering process and followed throughout all project phases – from Basic Design and Detail Design through IFC, Construction, Mechanical Completion, RFC, and Handover to your end customer.

This allows you to identify early whether system boundaries, handover criteria, documentation requirements, and commissioning sequences have been defined on a reliable basis. Missing prerequisites, technical risks, and critical interfaces are addressed during engineering rather than becoming visible only once commissioning has already started.

This creates a robust foundation for Construction, Mechanical Completion, RFC, Commissioning, and the structured handover to your customer.

Typical Services

You receive a robust commissioning strategy
Faust Project Execution develops a robust commissioning strategy based on project scope, systems, milestones, and dependencies – including the Commissioning Master Plan, project-specific plans, and the required protocols.

At the same time, the relevant EPC and commissioning requirements for scope, responsibilities, interfaces, turnover, testing, documentation, and handover are clearly defined and incorporated into the contractual framework.

You receive a data foundation that is ready for AI
Project data generated during commissioning is structured by Faust Project Execution so that it supports not only operational project control, but can also be used for AI-supported analysis and automated evaluation.

System, asset, turnover, and status data are transformed into a robust and interconnected data foundation for better decisions and further digital applications.

You receive a clear system and turnover structure
Faust Project Execution translates your plant and project scope into technically meaningful commissioning systems, subsystems, and turnover packages. Boundaries, prerequisites, responsibilities, and handover criteria are clearly defined for each system.

You identify critical dependencies early
Dependency matrices make technical and schedule-related dependencies between systems, disciplines, and commissioning activities transparent. You can see which prerequisites are required, which interfaces may become critical, and how delays will affect downstream systems.

You know which tests are required and when
Test matrices structure inspections, test sequences, responsibilities, and release criteria. This gives your commissioning teams and subcontractors clarity on which tests must be performed, when they are required, under which prerequisites, and with which interfaces.

You know whether your systems are truly ready for commissioning
Faust Project Execution makes transparent what is still missing for RFC and the subsequent commissioning activities – technically, organizationally, and from a documentation perspective.

This also includes the preparation and coordination of Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) for the safe isolation and control of energy sources, as well as the execution of Pre-Startup Safety Reviews (PSSR). This allows you to systematically verify before startup that the plant, processes, protective measures, and documentation are safely and fully prepared.

You bring turnover and handovers under control
Faust Project Execution structures the handovers between Construction, Commissioning, Qualification, Start-up, and Operations. Status, documentation, outstanding items, and responsibilities are clearly recorded and tracked.

You gain clarity on which deliverables your contractors and subcontractors still need to provide and whether a system is genuinely ready for the agreed handover.

Your commissioning teams and subcontractors are effectively coordinated
Faust Project Execution integrates your commissioning teams, specialist contractors, and subcontractors into a common schedule, system, and priority logic.

Scopes of work, prerequisites, interfaces, and responsibilities are clearly assigned. Execution is followed through to completion – not merely discussed.

You see the actual progress of your commissioning
System status, blockers, open items, releases, and next steps are captured in robust tracking and reporting structures – from Excel and databases to suitable SaaS solutions.

You gain a clear picture of actual progress, existing risks, critical deviations, and the management decisions that need to be made.

You see resolved interfaces and blockers before they determine your schedule
Faust Project Execution identifies dependencies between CSA, Mechanical Wet & Dry, Process, Chemicals, Electrical, I&C, and Automation at an early stage.

Responsibilities are clarified, critical issues are escalated, and decisions are translated into concrete actions. This prevents open items from blocking downstream systems and milestones without being recognized in time.

Commissioning Management with Clear Responsibility

Good commissioning does not begin with the first functional acceptance test.
It begins with knowing early:

• What needs to be completed?
• Which systems depend on each other?
• Who needs to deliver which scope?
• Which documentation and approvals are still missing?
• Which risks threaten your next milestones?
• Which decisions need to be made now?

Faust Project Execution takes responsibility for the Commissioning Management of your project – or supports your existing commissioning leadership as a dedicated sparring partner and operational reinforcement.

Your commissioning teams, specialist contractors, and subcontractors perform their respective scopes. Faust Project Execution ensures that these activities are planned, coordinated, prioritized, tracked, and brought together into a functioning overall result.

If a Commissioning Manager or Commissioning Director is already in place, Faust Project Execution can provide targeted support wherever additional technical depth, structure, or management capacity is required – for example in Commissioning Strategy, Systemization, Turnover, Interface Management, schedule and priority management, or the preparation of critical decisions.

You receive:

Early clarity: Commissioning requirements are integrated into engineering, contracts, schedule planning, and the system structure from an early stage.

Technical orientation: Relevant equipment, systems, interfaces, and prerequisites are understood and assessed – without taking over the role of your executing specialist contractors.

Operational control: Your commissioning teams and subcontractors work with clear priorities, responsibilities, and handover criteria.

Robust reporting: You see status, risks, deviations, decisions, and next steps on a reliable factual basis.

Reliable handovers: Systems are fully documented, tested, released, and transferred to the next project phase or to operations with clearly defined outstanding items.

This prevents your commissioning from becoming a constant reaction to whichever problem is currently the most urgent. Instead, you gain a structure that allows you to manage commissioning proactively, make critical decisions in time, and reliably bring your plant and contractual deliverables into operation.

Let’s talk about your project.