Course Description

This practical and highly-interactive course includes various practical sessions and exercises. Theory learnt will be applied using our state-of-the-art simulators. The process industry is losing over half a billion dollars of profits a year due to poor turnaround results and missed opportunities. The majority of turnarounds lacked strategic focus and front-end planning. In addition, turnaround teams lacked leadership and were understaffed. The major negative factor is the growing gap between higher turnaround performance expectations and rapidly shrinking qualified resources to manage the turnarounds. As a result, the planning effort not only starts late, but it is also ineffective, and typically does not contribute in the turnaround success. This course is designed to bridge the above-mentioned gap. It will provide turnaround managers and engineers with enough knowledge and skills to understand the purpose of the turnaround, to properly plan and manage the turnaround, and to achieve exponential results of their turnaround project. The course will teach participants how to establish a systematic turnaround management processes and procedures that incorporate the best turnaround practices, planning techniques and execution strategies.Turnaround results have a long-term effect on the facilitys operational reliability and it dictates the plants operational efficiency and business survival in the competitive global market. The turnaround performance can be dramatically improved if companies focus on key issues such as strategic planning, selection of qualified contractors, synergistic and innovative organizations, and tactical initiative to improve field productivity. The course will cover the emerging industry trends, turnaround benchmarking and the challenges faced by plant executives to consistently achieve pacesetter results on plant shutdowns and turnarounds. We will teach you how to fairly balance your business, marketing and financial goals with your plant needs for mechanical integrity and operational reliability. We will show you how to focus on risk areas, early work scope definition, high-performance initiatives, the assignment of qualified staff and the best practice contracting strategy. Upon the completion of this course, you will have good knowledge to perform World-Class turn arounds.

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TRAINING METHODOLOGY

This interactive training course includes the following training methodologies:

30 % Lectures
20 % Workshops & Work Presentations
20 % Case Studies & Practical Exercises
30 % Videos, Software & Simulators

In an unlikely event, the course instructor may modify the above training methodology for technical reasons.

VIRTUAL TRAINING (IF APPLICABLE)

If this course is delivered online as a Virtual Training, the following limitations will be applicable:

Certificates	:	Only soft copy certificates will be issued
Training Materials	:	Only soft copy materials will be issued
Training Methodology	:	80% theory, 20% practical
Training Program	:	4 hours per day, from 09:30 to 13:30