The process industry is losing over a billion dollars of profits a year due to poor shutdown and startup results. The majority of shutdown and startup lacked strategic focus and front-end planning. In addition, shutdown & startup teams lacked leadership and were understaffed. The major negative factor is the growing gap between higher shutdown performance expectations and rapidly shrinking qualified resources to manage the shutdowns. As a result, the planning effort not only starts late, but it is also ineffective, and typically does not contribute in the shutdown success.
This course is designed to bridge the above-mentioned gap. It will provide participants with enough knowledge and skills to understand the purpose of the shutdown, to properly plan and manage the shutdown, and to achieve exponential results of their shutdown project. The course will teach participants how to establish a systematic shutdown management processes and procedures that incorporate the best shutdown practices, planning techniques and execution strategies.
The course will cover the emerging industry trends, shutdown and startup benchmarking and the challenges to consistently achieve pacesetter results on plant shutdowns and startups. 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.
The course will provide participants with a complete and up-to-date overview of the start-up of Process plants. It will also cover the troubleshooting of the start-up process. Upon the successful completion of this course, each participant will gain enough skills to anticipate and avoid problems associated with such start-up processes. Further, this course will provide participants with a satisfactory understanding of the organizational issues, estimation of required resources, CPM planning, mechanical integrity, troubleshooting, start-up operations, technical inspection, instrumentation/control systems, HSE and much other necessary knowledge associated with the process plant start-up. Actual case studies from around the world will be demonstrated to highlight the topics discussed.