Engineering and Maintenance
Advanced Shutdown and Turnaround Management
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Advanced Shutdown and Turnaround Management Course
Introduction:
Course Objectives:
Upon completion of this course, participants will have gained a solid understanding of the key elements of successful shutdown management These include:
- Strategies for shutdown avoidance eg by managing degradation and regulators
- Justifying the shutdown and formulating clear objectives to help minimize work volume
- A timetable and framework to make visible and manage the necessary business processes
- Best practice plans for some critical aspects of a shutdown
- Communication strategies
- Benchmarking and capture of data to drive improvements
Who Should Attend?
This is a comprehensive core skills course for professionals dealing with all significant aspects of the management of shutdowns and turnarounds. The course will be highly valuable to all professionals, particularly engineers, who are involved in this area of the business. For other support personnel involved in shutdowns, the course will produce useful insights and put into perspective the key issues and approaches that need to be effectively managed to bring business success.
Course Outlines:
- Understanding the purpose of a shutdown
- How to measure success
- Development of a strategic framework for effective action
- Pacesetter performance and best in class
- Putting the shutdown into context of overall operations
- Pre-shutdown work minimizing techniques
- Establishing the shutdown objectives and targets
- Forming the shutdown team
- Making a milestone plan with Pacesetter targets
- Vetting, challenging and freezing work scopes
- Development of contracting strategy options
- Quality plans for critical issues
- Detailed planning systems
- Managing efficient preparation and execution
- Managing and minimizing emergent work
- Management safety
- Achieving a smooth and leak free start up
- Performance reporting, cost monitoring and lessons learnt