Event Date: March 24-27 2025 Location: Online

 

Course Outcomes:
  • Learn the latest best practices and strategy by dissecting the anatomy of a shutdown
  • Avoid pitfalls in decision-making and understand the legal side of shutdowns and planning
  • Identify and Overcome bottlenecks through critical path analysis and PERT analysis
  • Learn how to perform thorough cost and asset analysis
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of your current shutdown effort and measure your shutdown efficiency by benchmarking with world-class shutdown strategies
  • Acquire better understanding of the equipment from both an operation and maintenance aspect
  • Utilize tools and technology that can smoothen the process and create a backbone for effective plant maintenance and reliability
  • Reduce unnecessary cost incurred by properly planning, executing and closing your shutdown
  • Apply better control systems for contractors on site during the shutdown operations
  • Efficiently coordinate contractors and in-house staff to obtain an effective workflow
  • Master the latest best practices in planning, scheduling and CPM method

Why you cannot miss this masterclass

Attending a course on Plant Shutdown & Start-Up is crucial for professionals involved in the maintenance and operation of industrial plants. These courses provide comprehensive training on the best practices and methodologies for safely and efficiently shutting down and starting up plant operations. By understanding the intricacies of these processes, you can minimize downtime, prevent costly errors, and ensure the safety of personnel and equipment. This knowledge is particularly valuable during planned maintenance periods or unexpected shutdowns, where precise execution is critical to maintaining operational integrity and avoiding extended outages.

Moreover, a course on Plant Shutdown & Start-Up equips you with the skills to develop detailed shutdown and start-up plans, conduct risk assessments, and implement effective communication strategies. These skills are essential for coordinating complex activities across various departments and ensuring that all procedures are followed correctly. By mastering these techniques, you can enhance your ability to manage large-scale projects, improve plant reliability, and contribute to the overall efficiency and safety of your organization. Whether you are a plant manager, engineer, or technician, this training will significantly boost your expertise and career prospects in the industrial sector.

Course Coverage

Shutdown Issues Turnaround Outages

Overview of Processing Plant:

  • Brief Overview of gas treatment
  • Emergency Shutdown Systems (ESD)
  • The Functional areas of a shutdown and their practical contributions
  • Three critical paths of shutdowns and turnarounds
  • A greater appreciation of the key role in planning the shutdown process
  • Risk management in Shutdown, Turnaround and Outage
  • The New Standards Institute – Computer based program for Shutdowns, Turnaround and Outages
    • Introduction
    • Identifying the work
    • Risk management
    • Defining and Limiting the scope
    • Planning the shutdown
    • Planning the work
    • True PERT Program Evaluation & Review
    • Overview of Project Management Software
    • The Execution Phase
    • The Final Report

Maintenance Shutdown Turnaround Outages 9 Stages:

  • Stage 1 – Introduction and Overview
  • Stage 2- Safety Issues
  • Stage 3- Quality Issues
  • Stage 4- Designing the Organisation
  • Stage 5- Planning & Scheduling
  • Stage 6- Using Contractors
  • Stage 7- Cost Estimating, Reporting and Control
  • Stage 8-  Site  Logistics
  • Stage 9- Executing the Turnaround

Modern Shutdown Turnaround Outages Management:

  • Stable domains of maintenance
  • Role of reliability
  • Identifying critical equipment
  • Pareto Analysis
  • Fishbone Bone Charts
  • Decision flow diagram
  • Classification – table
  • Definition of technical terms

Guidelines to Shutdown Turnaround Outages Management:

  • Work planning during shut downs
  • Scheduling
  • Daily schedule
  • Coding the jobs
    • Critical
    • Urgent
    • Priority
    • Routine
  • Coordination
    • Plan maintenance job
    • Schedule maintenance job
    • Execute maintenance job
    • Execute post maintenance test
    • Complete maintenance job
  • Schedule methods

Training Methodology:

  • Comprehensive Manual
  • Supporting Power Presentation Decks
  • Overview of Equipment types
    • Compressors overview
    • Centrifugal Pumps
    • Turbine
    • Valves during shutdown.
  • Videos HAZOP/HAZID Analysis.
  • Group Studies for HAZOP Analysis.
  • Self- Skill Questions
  • Group Study for FMEA and RCFA Analysis

Target Audience

This course is designed for Managers, Superintendents, Supervisors, Engineers, Planners, Heads, Team Leaders, Inspectors, Contractors and Coordinators of:

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

From the following industries:

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

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