by Dane Traver | Jul 24, 2018 | Shutdown Planning
A plant maintenance shutdown project in a regulated industry is a different animal than the typical product or service-oriented project model. It is of relatively short duration but often has as many or more components to it, including…
by Dane Traver | Jul 10, 2018 | Shutdown Planning
Most of these steps will be aimed at gathering raw data to produce the Overview Project Statement, which will, when approved, provide the go-ahead to begin your formal planning.
by Dane Traver | Jun 21, 2018 | Shutdown Planning
The most successful shutdowns I have been involved with followed some fairly standard project management methods. But, instead of you learning a big, formal process, I’m assuming that you need to get moving on a plan, and that you are a hands-on maintenance manager or supervisor, who has “learned on the job.”
by Mark Smallwood | Jun 20, 2018 | Project Planning
While planning as a discipline gets a lot more respect than it did 30 years ago, a lot of politics, false assumptions, and misunderstandings still block an even wider adoption of project planning processes. I am sure this is just as true in the manufacturing sector as it is in the software sector or in any other well-defined industrial environment.