Improve Turnaround, Shutdown, and Outage Duration: After Action Review
The practice of After Action Review, AAR, comes from the military, as in the US Army’s TC25-20 “A Leader’s Guide to After-Action […]
Month: April 2011
Guest Post – Minarai: apprentice, beginner; learn by observing
Guest post by Larry Loucka about minarai: apprentice, learner on Mark Hamel’s blog Gemba Tales: As I ready myself for a new […]
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 […]
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. […]