Advanced Shutdown and Turnaround Management

This course will firmly put planned shutdowns and turnarounds, which are an accepted feature of large process plants, into a business context. The purpose will be identified as the provision of increased overall availability, efficiency, and integrity. The course will identify the ingredients which need to be managed effectively and optimized to achieve this result. A framework for efficient, effective and timely action will be given. The course will highlight how opportunities provided to inspect, clean, repair, modify equipment and regenerate or renew catalysts also provide opportunities to do significant quantities of unnecessary work. This increase in work volume will increase workforce numbers, add complexity to the process, put pressure on the competence pool available locally, add cost, and usually extend the duration of the shutdown. Effective management of equipment degradation will reduce the rate and unpredictability of deterioration, reduce repair needs, and provide increased confidence in inspection trends. All of which will reduce work needs. The course will provide a good understanding of how to manage these and other issues which bear on the successful achievement of the objectives of a modern shutdown strategy. This strategy will aim to optimize the interval between shutdowns, minimize the time between feed out to product back on the specification and do this at a low cost. The course will provide participants with competence in the use of modern, well-proven approaches, tools and techniques to achieve this desirable end result.