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 […]
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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. […]
Improve Turnaround Outage Duration: Parallel Planning
Outage readiness is better when all the right people give and receive input at the earliest effective date; bust the silos, […]
Improve Turnaround Outage Duration: Shutdown & Startup
All too often the battle for managing the duration and cost of a planned plant maintenance shutdown is lost in the stages […]
Improve Turnaround Outage Duration: Constraint Busting
Scope and Gantt scrubs, reliability engineering equipment improvement projects, and new technologies are steps we can take to extend the life of […]
Improve Turnaround Outage Duration: Externalize
Externalize: when looking at all of the tasks that occur leading up to, during, and after a planned maintenance shutdown it can […]
Plant Shutdown Readiness
Shutdown readiness … You’ve heard the sayings “What gets measured gets better” and “Inspect what you expect”, well here’s a management control […]
Lean Plant Shutdown Strategies
Whether you call it a plant shutdown, outage, or turnaround getting the right work done, safely, and in the shortest time can […]
Lean Shutdown Management
Shutdown, outage, turnaround, or whatever you call it can vary dramatically in effort, duration, and cost, for example: Months off line and […]
Time Value Chart
Determine Total Cycle Time Determine Queue Times between steps Create Step segments proportional to the task times Place steps, […]
Overall Plant Effectiveness
The Eight Major Plant Losses Shutdown Production adjustment Equipment failure Process failure Normal production loss Abnormal production loss Quality defects Reprocessing
Waterspiders as continuous improvement innovators
The term Waterspider or water beetle (mizusumashi in Japanese) comes from the behavior of the insect known in the States as a […]