Course Details

Intoduction
The industrial operations are losing over half a billion dollars of profits a year due to poor management of shutdown/turnaround outputs and missed opportunities. The most of shutdowns/turnarounds lacked strategic focus and front-end planning. In addition, shutdown/turnaround teams lacked leadership and were understaffed. The major negative factor is the growing gap between higher shutdown/turnaround performance expectations and rapidly shrinking qualified resources to manage the shutdowns/turnarounds. As a result, the planning effort not only starts late, but it is also ineffective, and typically does not contribute in the turnaround success.
This course is designed to bridge the above mentioned gap. It will provide shutdown/turnaround managers and engineers with enough knowledge and skills to understand the purpose of the shutdowns/turnaround, to properly plan and manage the shutdown/turnaround, and to achieve exponential results of their shutdown/turnaround project. The course will teach participants how to establish a systematic shutdown/turnaround management processes and procedures that incorporate the best shutdown/turnaround practices, planning techniques and execution strategies.
Shutdown/turnaround results have a long-term effect on the facility’s operational reliability and it dictates the plant’s operational efficiency and business survival in the competitive global market. The shutdown/turnaround performance can be dramatically improved if companies focus on key issues such as strategic planning, selection of qualified contractors, synergistic and innovative organizations, and tactical initiative to improve field productivity.
The course will cover the emerging industry trends, shutdown/turnaround benchmarking and the challenges faced by plant executives to consistently achieve pacesetter results on plant shutdowns and turnarounds. We will teach you how to fairly balance your business, marketing and financial goals with your plant needs for mechanical integrity and operational reliability. We will show you how to focus on risk areas, early work scope definition, high-performance initiatives, the assignment of qualified staff and the best practice contracting strategy. Upon the completion of this course, you will have good knowledge to perform World-Class shutdowns/turnarounds.

Who should attend?
This course is designed for those involved in the plant shutdown and turnaround operations. This includes maintenance and project staff such as engineers, supervisors, planners, and foremen.

Course objectives:
Generally the purpose of this course is to:

1. Provide sound knowledge in shutdown & turnaround management process for Engineers, Supervisors and foremen.
2. Effective planning, scheduling, cost control, execution and control of shutdown work by utilizing flow chart techniques.
   At end of the course the participant should be able to develop shutdown scope of work, Budget, Plans and control measures for the planning and execution of plant shutdown by covering the following subjects:
3. Introduction to Shutdowns and Turnarounds.
4. Shutdown/Turnaround preparation (SOW, budget, material and resources)
5. Plant shutdown and preparation for maintenance.
6. Preparation and Execution issues on Logistic, Infrastructure and Materials Management
7. Developing Shutdown and Turnaround Plans by the Critical Path Planning Method
8. Resource Management, Cost performance measures.
9. Performance management
10. Maximizing people resources
11. Safety, Quality and Risk Management
12. Overview of computerized tools, case studies

Course Duration

5 Days