Advanced Shutdown and Turnaround Management

Maintenance Shutdowns and Outages is one of the most challenging periods in the industry, covering technical challenge, legislation, and financial and logistical issues on a large scale, and this is before the consideration of people siding with large teams to bring together and motivate. Shutdowns are the most costly and time-consuming of maintenance projects, projects, as these lead to loss of production and expenses involved. In reality, the risk of equipment reliability, production integrity, and operation efficiency increases due to machinery failure and unscheduled outages. To avoid production delays and costly maintenance repairs, companies are striving to do the shutdown project as effectively and efficiently as they can the first time around.

Planning, scheduling, estimating, and managing shutdowns, turnarounds, and outages (STO) in a plant environment is a complex and demanding function. If STO is not properly planned, managed, and controlled, plants run the risks of serious budget overruns, costly schedule delays, and the negative financial impact of the STO on a plant. In this training course, you will learn about:

  • Develop a practical STO strategy and tactics
  • Top factors ensuring that shutdown/turnaround happens efficiently, without essential delays and unexpected costs, and according to what was planned
  • The main maintenance best practice planning principles for STO
  • The main maintenance best practice scheduling principles for STO
  • Effective methods for estimation of the standard job hours for work orders of STO
  • Effective shutdown/turnaround preparation for maximizing shutdown/turnaround success

Top Learning Objectives

  • Enhance the company’s STO management and maintenance capabilities
  • Avoid STO delays due to improved spare part management and communication
  • Improve capability to manage all stages of STO
  • Master the development of maintenance plan and schedule and estimations for STO work orders
  • Create awareness of planning and scheduling methods in the execution of a successful STO
  • Reduce STO durations due to the elimination of unnecessary work and proper planning and scheduling

Who Should Attend?

This course has been developed for Managers, Superintendents, Supervisors, Engineers, Planners, Heads, Team Leaders, Inspectors, Contractors and coordinators of:

  • Shutdown/ Turnaround
  • Maintenance
  • Planning
  • Scheduling
  • Engineering
  • Manufacturing
  • Production
  • Facilities
  • Cost Control
  • Reliability
  • Plant/ Project
  • Outage
  • Asset Management
  • Operations/ Audit
  • Safety

From the following industries:

  • Oil & Gas
  • Consulting Engineering
  • Power
  • Mining
  • Utilities
  • Exploration and Production
  • Chemicals
  • Manufacturing
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Power Generation
  • Agriculture
  • Petrochemicals
  • Support Services

Trainer's Background

  • The Trainer is a world-renowned maintenance expert with over 35 years of real-life industrial experience. He is the author of over 200 publications in the areas of maintenance, condition monitoring of complex mechanical systems, and root cause analysis.
  • Elected Chairman of the International Society for Maintenance and Condition Monitoring
  • President of the International Institute of Acoustics and Vibrations USA
  • Elected Chairman of the Maintenance and Condition Monitoring Technical Committee of the British Institute of Nondestructive Testing

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“It provides me with detailed process of scheduling and maintenance of maintenance equipment. Very relevant to job scope and very enlightening. Experienced speaker with excellent background in the topic”

Vice President (Prasarana Sdn Bhd)

“ Very good and interesting. Trainer have so many input to deliver this training. The main strength is to know the planner responsibility and how to be a good planner”.

Maintenance Planner, PTP