Turnaround Assistance

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Plan the Work and Work the Plan

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Turnarounds have unique project challenges. Ensuring that prior to the Turnaround the team plans the work and during the turnaround the team works the plan is essential. Primavera P6 provides the capability and flexibility required to create and maintain the scheduling piece of the execution plan.

Don’t get the idea that by doing this you will never have to put together any mitigation plans during the turnaround…..that Murphy fellow is always glad to appear on the scene! When you have ensured a thorough plan is in place before the start of the Turnaround, you have equipped yourself with the ability to create any mitigation requirements quickly and easily, and with comparison completed informed decisions can be made.

Your execution plan for a turnaround includes a fully integrated, resource loaded schedule. Primavera P6 provides the capability and flexibility to create the integrated, resource loaded schedule for the turnaround. Prior to the turnaround, create-review-revise as many times as necessary to complete a workable and comprehensive schedule. Baseline the schedule once agreed. This provides tracking and trending capability during the turnaround. During turnaround the schedule should be thoroughly updated at regular intervals. Progress needs to be conveyed back to all members of the team as well as to management. From the schedule updates the execution team can monitor progress and has the required information to act on any negative trending proactively. Within the software, status updates can be easily incorporated either with manual data entry or via bar coded updates which are available through Emerald Associates. Bar coding updates streamlines the update process and reduces data entry errors. During a turnaround you have a large amount of data moving in and out of the schedule so streamlining the process where possible is very valuable.

Primavera P6 provides the flexibility to plan, track and report large or small turnarounds and provide the execution team and management with the required information to make informed decisions.

Turnaround Assistance

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Problem

Shutdowns and turnarounds are very specialized type of projects. A typical oil refinery turnaround results in lost production excessing 100,000 barrels per day. Turnaround planners and schedulers have increasingly difficult jobs to undertake. They are faced with shorter or larger turnarounds, major project tie-ins, lack of trade resources, and aging refineries, and need to be trained quickly and effectively. Therefore, managing such projects to get the refinery back into production and on schedule is of paramount importance to an organization, and project visibility is subsequently very high. The only way to manage these challenges effectively is through the use of a proven turnaround methodology which uses world class tools and processes.

Solution

Emerald understands the demands of the turnaround management process and has developed a Turnaround Methodology which uses specific tools and processes to ensure the implementation is as smooth as possible. Emerald’s toolkit includes state of the art software that covers planning, scheduling, resource leveling, progressing, 4D simulation, Monte Carlo risk analysis, and Earned Value analysis. Our technical group can integrate our systems with CMMS or EAM systems and can provide data conversion from legacy systems, maintaining historical information. We also provide efficient, accurate electronic data entry to eliminate tedious and time consuming manual input. Emerald’s Turnaround Progressing System (TAPS) makes progressing a schedule quick and accurate, ensuring that work plans are delivered to the field quickly, so planners and schedulers can spend less time entering data and more time analyzing and looking ahead.

ROI

Emerald’s turnaround methodology contains standardized reporting processes; although planning is done at a detailed level, not all reports need to be as detailed. Providing easy, user friendly reports with interactive dashboard graphs, summary level milestone schedules, and earned value reports is a sure way to keep your company on track and on budget, while keeping all the stakeholders involved the turnaround. Drill-down pivot table reports can be instantly generated by plant, equipment type, contractor, planner, foreman or any other required coding structure, allowing all parties involved with the turnaround to remain included throughout the whole process.

Emerald’s Experience

Emerald has implemented turnaround management systems for clients across North America. Our staff has experience on computers and on the tools, and can show processes to use the tools and software to its maximum capacity, which has been proven over many turnarounds with numerous clients. We have developed an implementation methodology to get clients up and running quickly, along with a support system to make them successful. We also provide turnaround specific training classes which build on generic training and offer practical tips, tricks and examples, as our trainers have worked the turnarounds and give real life examples of what works and what doesn’t.

For more information, please review the Primavera Turnaround Methodology Brochure.