Improve Turnaround Outage Duration: Parallel Planning
Outage readiness is better when all the right people give and receive input at the earliest effective date; bust the silos, […]
Author: Lawrence Loucka
Improve Turnaround Outage Duration: Shutdown & Startup
All too often the battle for managing the duration and cost of a planned plant maintenance shutdown is lost in the stages […]
Improve Turnaround Outage Duration: Constraint Busting
Scope and Gantt scrubs, reliability engineering equipment improvement projects, and new technologies are steps we can take to extend the life of […]
Improve Turnaround Outage Duration: Externalize
Externalize: when looking at all of the tasks that occur leading up to, during, and after a planned maintenance shutdown it can […]
Tips for warehouse sizing
Tips for warehouse sizing: Don’t get fooled by “averages” Consider using statistical tools, such as standard deviation, and P.90 probability to analyze […]
Plant Shutdown Readiness
Shutdown readiness … You’ve heard the sayings “What gets measured gets better” and “Inspect what you expect”, well here’s a management control […]
ABC Analysis: how to
ABC Analysis is a common management approach for prioritizing, classifying, or categorizing inventory. Inventory classification is usually based on an items price […]
Lean Plant Shutdown Strategies
Whether you call it a plant shutdown, outage, or turnaround getting the right work done, safely, and in the shortest time can […]
Lean Shutdown Management
Shutdown, outage, turnaround, or whatever you call it can vary dramatically in effort, duration, and cost, for example: Months off line and […]
Bullwhip Effect
The bullwhip effect is the result of uncertainty caused from distorted information flowing up and down the supply chain. The bullwhip effect […]
Supply Chain Strategy
Here’s a diagram of the effect of lead time and demand uncertainty on supply chain strategy. Pull strategy works when […]
Time Value Chart
Determine Total Cycle Time Determine Queue Times between steps Create Step segments proportional to the task times Place steps, […]