“Command Center” brings up images of NASA or maybe a natural disaster response team.  For a large planned maintenance turnaround the furniture […]

Uncontrolled scope change is unplanned work and this is a failure of either planning, reliability engineering, or management. Scope Change Management countermeasures […]

Maintenance outages, turnarounds, or plant shutdowns are complex, and can involve hundreds or even thousands of temporary workers, and are very costly.  […]

  Outage readiness is better when all the right people give and receive input at the earliest effective date; bust the silos, […]

All too often the battle for managing the duration and cost of a planned plant maintenance shutdown is lost in the stages […]

Scope and Gantt scrubs, reliability engineering equipment improvement  projects, and new technologies are steps we can take to extend the life of […]

Shutdown readiness … You’ve heard the sayings “What gets measured gets better” and “Inspect what you expect”, well here’s a management control […]

Whether you call it a plant shutdown, outage, or turnaround getting the right work done, safely, and in the shortest time can […]