Elements and Performance Criteria
- Identify maintenance/project and plant requirements.
- Analyse relevant company records to determine activities which have been scheduled for the shutdown
- Obtain information on maintenance activities intended for the shutdown
- Obtain information on production activities intended for the shutdown
- Obtain information on projects or construction activities intended for the shutdown
- Compile a list of all activities intended for the shutdown, including sufficient detail to allow for shutdown planning
- Negotiate conflicts between proposed activities.
- Identify tasks, timelines and resources.
- Break down each agreed shutdown activity into required tasks
- Determine time, people, material, other resources required and 'owner' for each task
- Determine prerequisite tasks for each task
- Identify conflicts between tasks arising from resources or other causes
- Negotiate conflicts between tasks
- Compile database of all tasks and their requirements.
- Develop schedule.
- Develop draft shutdown schedule (including planning activities)
- Determine critical path for shutdown tasks
- Analyse tasks on critical path to determine methods of reducing critical path
- Develop revised schedule
- Consult with all relevant stakeholders and analyse revised schedule for conflicts and possible savings
- Negotiate conflicts
- Develop final schedule and critical path.
- Communicate with all relevant stakeholders.
- Monitor shutdown.