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Shut Down Planning

Objective To take participants through the stages of prolonging a potential failure; pre-shutdown activities; shutdown activities and post shutdown activities.
Benefits
  1. Improved production and cost effective maintenance resulting from reduced length of shutdown period.
  2. Introduction of a systematic approach to make logical decisions that need to be prioritised and executed when planning and organising a shutdown.
Who Should Attend?

Maintenance Managers, Supervisors, Leading Hands and Maintenance Tradespersons currently involved – or planning to become involved – in Shutdown Planning.

Course Outline

Introduction to theoretical and practical aspects of Shutdown Planning by identifying the activities that need to be completed when planning a shutdown, sorting activities into four stages of the shutdown process, analyse and reduce the critical path and improve productivity and cost effective allocation of maintenance resources.

Welcome and Introduction
Welcome and introductions
Course overview
Maintenance history
Benefits of Shutdown Planning

Typical Shutdown Planning Problems
Maintenance has with other departments
Maintenance has with outsiders
Maintenance has with maintenance

Select Workshop Scenario
Workshop requirements
Workshop scenarios
Plant infrastructure

Prolonging Equipment Functional Failure
The benefits of prolonging a functional failure
What is required to prolong equipment failure
Other possibilities

Pre Shutdown, Shutdown and Post Shutdown Planning
Pre shutdown planning activities
Shutdown planning activities
Post shutdown planning activities

Critical Path Analysis
Prepare bar graph and Gantt chart
Analyse critical path
Workshop

Manpower, Materials and Equipment Utilisation
Prepare manpower chart
Prepare list of materials and equipment
Prepare a budget for presentation

Meetings and Presentations
Meeting purpose and types
Criteria for successful meetings
Negotiation skills to deal with difficult people

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