Shutdown Schedule

I have extensive experience with shutdowns/turnarounds. If you have a specific question, I would be happy to relate my perspective.

Bernard Ertl
InterPlan Systems - ATC Professional Shutdown / Turnaround Management System

I’ve a little exposure in shutdown schedule preparation, brief your query on specific item ....... let me try to solve it if i can.......

Actually, I’m looking for sample of shutdown schedule, especially in Refinery Plant. And also Work Order, Job Card sample format.

thanks,

I can forward you a sample schedule when I return to the office on Monday. I’m guessing you are new to planning shutdowns / turnarounds? Does the plant you are at not have any data from past jobs?

Bernard Ertl
InterPlan Systems - ATC Professional Shutdown / Turnaround Management System

Bernard,
Right, this my first experience in preparing Shutdown Schedule. My experience mostly in Project.
How detail s/d schedule is, so it is manageable?
How do you combine between capital work and maintenance work?
What is the basis in structuring the WBS?
How do you manage the pre-shutdown work including design and purchasing material?
Thanks for your advise.

Regards,
rusydi

We published a primer (tutorial) for planning turnarounds that you might find helpful.

We recommend planning to a high degree of detail, but we use software that can handle it easily. If you are using software that bogs down with a large volume of detailed tasks, you should plan to as detailed a degree as the software can reasonably accommodate (or find another tool if the current one is inadequate).

Usually, the capital work that is integrated into a (maintenance) turnaround is limited to piping tie-ins. We code them appropriately to identify the work as capital work but otherwise treat it the same as any other part of the project scope.

The organization of the work into a WBS would be dependent upon the procedures at your plant. Every turnaround I have ever participated in used a work order based system for organizing work at (more or less) the equipment level. Something like:

Plant
- Unit
--- Equipment Type
------ Work Order
--------- Tasks

We include all pre-turnaround work in the schedule and flag it as pre-turnaround. Our system has some built-in facilities for handling pre and post turnaround work appropriately for cost estimating, scheduling, etc.

I cannot recall ever seeing ’design’ included in a turnaround plan/schedule. If you are referring to the capital projects, usually the engineer(s) overseeing the project(s) will be in charge of managing their responsibilities leading up to the construction.

Purchasing of material is usually done well before the turnaround schedule is approved/finalized and it is more common to include material delivery constraints than material purchasing activities.

Bernard Ertl
InterPlan Systems - ATC Professional Shutdown / Turnaround Management System

Hi Guys,

I am currently on a mining project and have to do plannning for shutdown and tie in with existing plant. I would appreciate if some one can send me a planning schedule which has been done in any other project. I am not very sure if Primavera is good enough to do the shutdown planning as lot of detailing and work duration in hrs needs to be used.

Thanks

Abhinav

Hi Rusydi,

 

Do you have any planning shcedule for shutdown works?Kindly send me as I need to prepare a shutdown program.

Abhinav

Hi Abnav

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Start a new thread for your new enquiry.

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