Improve Turnaround Outage Duration: Command Center
“Command Center” brings up images of NASA or maybe a natural disaster response team. For a large planned maintenance turnaround the furniture […]
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Improve Turnaround Outage Duration: Scope Change Management
Uncontrolled scope change is unplanned work and this is a failure of either planning, reliability engineering, or management. Scope Change Management countermeasures […]
Improve Turnaround Outage Duration: Milestone Reporting
That’s a “GT” on the milestone, as in 10 miles north of Grahamstown South Africa. Milestones were originally stone markers used by […]
Improve Turnaround Outage Duration: Non Stop Critical Path
Maintenance outages, turnarounds, or plant shutdowns are complex, and can involve hundreds or even thousands of temporary workers, and are very costly. […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]