Eight phases from idea to running plant - every key task, in order, with the detailed guide for each step one click away.
Thirty-two guides on this site answer every question in the machinery journey - but a library is not a plan. This page is the plan: the same knowledge compressed into eight phases of checkboxes, in the order they happen, designed to be printed and ticked in ink.
Work top to bottom. Each phase links the detailed guide behind its tasks - and if a step stalls, our team unblocks it. Start anywhere except Phase 2: machines ordered before Phases 1 and 3 are finished are the most expensive mistake in the industry.
Phase 1Thirty-two guides of advice compress into one sentence: never pay the final balance without a 72-hour full-load test video of your actual machine. Every other mistake on this list is recoverable; production faults discovered after final payment are the expensive kind. The testing standard is described in our services commitments - and any exporter who resists it is telling you something.
Eight phases: validate the market and licenses, select the machine and materials, prepare the site, purchase with an itemized quote, import with verified payment terms, prepare utilities and spares, commission with testing and training, then run with a maintenance and QC routine. This checklist walks each phase with the key tasks.
Typically 4-7 months: 4-8 weeks of validation and site work, 2-4 weeks of selection and purchase, 8-14 weeks of manufacturing, testing and shipping, and 2-3 weeks of commissioning. Financing applications and licensing can run in parallel to save time.
Pre-shipment testing. Buyers who accept a 72-hour full-load video test of their actual machine catch faults in India; buyers who skip it find the same faults at their plant, weeks later. It is the single highest-value checkbox on this list.
Yes - it is designed as a working document. Print it, tick the boxes in ink, and bring it to every supplier call. Each phase links the detailed guide that explains the tasks in depth.
Every phase on this checklist maps to Goluwa support - from the water test interpretation and machine selection, through bank-ready proforma invoices and duty documents, to commissioning crews and lifetime remote diagnosis. Contact us with your phase number and question.
Tell us your phase number and your question - or send the whole checklist back with ticks. Whatever stage you are at, the next step starts within 24 hours.