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Start Date: 10 Oct, 2027
End Date: 14 Oct, 2027
Duration: 5 Days
 
Overview: 
This course places planned shutdowns and turnarounds—an integral aspect of large process plants—within a clear business context, focusing on their role in enhancing overall availability, efficiency, and asset integrity. It outlines the key elements that must be effectively managed and optimized to achieve these goals, offering a structured framework for efficient, timely, and effective execution. Participants will explore how essential activities such as inspection, cleaning, repairs, equipment modifications, and catalyst renewal can inadvertently lead to unnecessary work, increasing complexity, workforce demands, costs, and the overall duration of shutdowns. The course emphasizes the importance of managing equipment degradation to reduce the rate and unpredictability of deterioration, minimize repair needs, and build confidence in inspection data—ultimately lowering workload requirements. By addressing these challenges, the course guides participants toward developing a modern shutdown strategy that optimizes intervals between shutdowns, shortens downtime from feed-out to product delivery, and controls costs. It equips attendees with the skills and knowledge to apply proven tools, techniques, and best practices to achieve efficient and cost-effective turnaround outcomes.
 
 
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.