From Downtime to Advantage. From Risk to Reliability. From Cost to Profit.
A well-planned and executed shutdown is more than a maintenance milestone – it’s a strategic lever to improve safety, reliability, profitability, and can make the difference between lost production and lasting performance gains. This three-day Planning for Shutdowns, Turnarounds, and Outages course equips maintenance, operations, and project leaders to treat shutdowns as a business advantage and a pathway to operational excellence.
Shutdowns and outages (STOs) are complex, large-scale investments in maintenance and capital projects that are critical to get right. During the course, learners participate in workshops, activities, and case studies to map and improve their STO processes. Participants develop role-aligned teams, select KPIs to monitor performance, and gather lessons learned for continuous improvement. The course is aligned with SMRP and IAM best practices and includes ready-to-use checklists, procedures, and action plans. Learners will be ready to turn their next STO from a costly downtime event into an opportunity for cost savings and performance improvement.
In this training, learn how to:
- Develop an STO strategy that links cost, reliability and risk to business goals and positions STO as a business advantage
- Assess the effectiveness of your current shutdown effort, analyze gaps and prioritize improvements
- Form a cross‑functional STO team, clarifying roles and responsibilities
- Apply techniques to develop and manage scope, rank risks and secure resources early
- Explain how to maintain safety, quality and budget by properly planning and executing a shutdown and seamless starting-up
- Review job packages and critical path schedules that balance internal labor, contractors, and materials
- Track performance with KPIs and dashboards, benchmarking against world‑class shutdown metrics
- Close out work properly and run structured lessons learned to feed continuous improvement
Who Should Attend Training
Successful STOs require the disciplined application of proven processes and interdepartmental partnerships. Since STO’s are cross-functional projects that reach a broad range of stakeholders, the following job titles and roles would find this training beneficial:
Maintenance Planner/Schedulers
Production Supervisors
Storeroom Managers
Maintenance Managers and Supervisors
Operation Coordinators
Plant Engineers and Capital Project Engineers
Outage Coordinators
Reliability Engineers
Facilities Managers
Project Managers
Asset Management Specialists
Quality Assurance
Procurement
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