Start Date: 12 Sep,2027
End Date: 16 Sep,2027
Duration: 5 Days
Overview:
This course places planned shutdowns and turnarounds—an accepted feature of large process plants—firmly into a business context. Its purpose is to enhance overall plant availability, efficiency, and integrity. Participants will learn the key elements that must be effectively managed and optimized to achieve these goals, within a framework for efficient, effective, and timely execution. The course will emphasize how the opportunity to inspect, clean, repair, modify equipment, and regenerate or renew catalysts can also lead to excessive and unnecessary work. Such scope growth increases labor demand, adds complexity, strains local workforce competence, raises costs, and often extends shutdown durations. By focusing on effective degradation management, the course will show how to reduce equipment deterioration and inspection uncertainty, thereby minimizing repair needs and overall workload. Participants will gain a solid understanding of the issues that impact the success of a modern shutdown strategy, which aims to extend shutdown intervals, shorten turnaround durations—from feed-out to on-spec product—and reduce costs. The course equips attendees with the knowledge and skills to apply proven tools, techniques, and approaches for successful shutdown planning and execution.
Course Objectives:
At the end of this course, the participants will be able to:
- Obtain a solid understanding of the key elements of successful shutdown management
- Apply strategies for shutdown avoidance by managing degradation and regulators
- Justifying the shutdown and formulating clear objectives to help minimise work volume
- Make a timetable and framework to make visible and manage the necessary business processes
- Apply best practice plans for some critical aspects of a shutdown
- Employ communication strategies
- Understand benchmarking and capture of data to drive improvements
Course Content:
- Understanding the purpose of a shutdown ·
- How to measure success ·
- Development of a strategic framework for effective action ·
- Pacesetter performance and best in class ·
- Putting the shutdown into the context of overall operations ·
- Pre-shutdown work minimising techniques ·
- Establishing the shutdown objectives and targets ·
- Forming the shutdown team ·
- Making a milestone plan with Pacesetter targets ·
- Vetting, challenging and freezing work scopes ·
- Development of contracting strategy options ·
- Quality plans for critical issues ·
- Detailed planning systems ·
- Managing efficient preparation and execution ·
- Managing and minimising emergent work ·
- Management safety ·
- Achieving a smooth and leak-free start-up ·
- Performance reporting, cost monitoring and lessons learnt
Targeted Audience:
This course is intended for professionals dealing with all significant aspects of the management of shutdowns and turnarounds. Also, the course will be highly valuable to all professionals, particularly engineers, who are involved in this area of the business and for other support personnel involved in shutdowns, the course will produce useful insights and put into perspective the key issues and approaches that need to be effectively managed to bring business success.
