Outage Management Best Practices

One surprising statistic that reveals the difficulty that many plants with effective outage management is that many outage plans do not have a set of shutdown performance metrics that completely measure the true success of any planned maintenance outage. This fact alone belies the notion that many people just accept the pain that many outages offer to the business plan.

As manufacturing professionals, we have the right to expect that the process go down on time, start up on time, and the equipment run well until the next outage. We should also expect no safety issues and manage the costs well. The Outage Success Metrics should reflect performance of all these areas, and Best Practices executed to ensure repeatability of success. For example:

• A Change Management Best Practice to should Support Runnability
• A Pre Startup Inspection Best Practice should minimize Startup Risks

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