Preparation and planning of major shutdowns

This training is also part of the Complete Maintenance & Asset Management Training Cycle.

• Printing a shutdown in practice
• Initiating a major shutdown
• Team models in a major shutdown
• Managing the project scope
• Preparing the work in a shutdown
• Scheduling and planning work in a shutdown
• Management during the execution of a major shutdown
• Evaluation and performance indicators of a major turnaround

• Recognise the specific characteristics of a major shutdown and translate them into an action plan in the initiation phase.
• Understand how to set up a dedicated team for the organisation of a shutdown in relation to the subcontractors of a major shutdown.
• Understand what it means to manage the project scope of a major shutdown.
• Understand how the preparation of a major stop is organised.
• Understand how the planning of a major shutdown is organised.
• Understand how a major turnaround could be monitored during the execution phase and which aspects need to be taken into account.
• Learn how to report on the results of a major shutdown.

• Safety: HSSE indicators
• Quality :
  • Number of items on the Punchlist A items
  • of assembly with leaks
• Compliance with time constraints
• Compliance with cost constraints

Practical exercise

• Proposal: the discussion of the lesson preparation is created by the participants. There is only a certain class of KPI's that is calculated on the basis of information from a previous stop.

The participants actively participate in the data of a previous stop in their company:

• Number of people on site during the stoppage
• Number of accidents with/without lost time
• Size of the internal organisation of a major shutdown
• Budget
• The actual cost at the end of the outage
• Number of days planned
• The actual duration of the stoppage
• Problems (quality, ...)

This training will provide you with the essential basic principles, the good practices in maintenance and the associated methodologies, in order to start your function in a sustainable way. This 4-hour training course is intended for :

• Maintenance engineers with little or no basic knowledge;
• Technicians called upon to take charge of reliability projects;
• Production managers who wish to become maintenance managers.

Mauro Leardi is Maintenance & Reliability Manager. He has an experience of more than 25 years as Manufacturing Supervisor, Methods Officer, Project Leader 6Sigma and CPS Blackbelt (TPM manager), Quality Supervisor, Quality Engineer where he managed projects: BIQ implementation, manufacturing support, audits...) at Caterpillar Inc. He was Maintenance & Reliability Engineer at Allied Reliability before joining I-Care in July 2018 as a trainer.