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3rd Annual Plant Maintenance in the Middle East Conference – Abu Dhabi, UAE |
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3rd Annual Plant Maintenance in the Middle East Conference – Abu Dhabi, UAE - January 11-13, 2010
Bethesda, Maryland, January 2010 — Asset Performance Networks presented at the Plant Maintenance in the Middle East Conference that took place from January 11-13, 2010 in Abu Dhabi, UAE. John Alkemade presented a paper on "Effective Implementation of a Gated Work Process – The NaviTrack Story". This presentation outlined how a formalized, gated work process will positively influence the outcome of a turnaround. Further, the presentation explained how all turnaround best practices are assembled into one "Plan-to-Plan," customized for the complexity of individual turnarounds. Finally, this presentation focused on utilization of NaviTrack.
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NPRA 2010 Annual Meeting – Phoenix |
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NPRA 2010 Annual Meeting – Phoenix – March 21-23, 2010
Bethesda, Maryland, January 2010 — Asset Performance Networks will be presenting at the NPRA (National Petrochemicals & Refiners Association) Annual Meeting taking place from March 21-23, 2010 in Phoenix. Brett Schroeder will present the paper "Managing and Optimizing the Trade-offs in Refinery Turnarounds to Reduce Costs." This paper examines the relationships between major cost-contributing factors such as labor productivity, shift-patterns, indirects, duration, and quality. The presentation will identify the optimal strategies to reduce turnaround costs and highlight some of the key trade-offs that need to be considered by management. The analysis is based on a database of more than 500 turnaround events. |
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2nd Annual Shutdowns, Turnarounds & Outages Conference – Barcelona, Spain |
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2nd Annual Shutdowns, Turnarounds & Outages Conference – Barcelona, Spain - March 25-26, 2010
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, January 2010 — Asset Performance Networks will be presenting at the Shutdown, Turnarounds & Outages Conference held on March 25-26, 2010 in Barcelona, Spain. John Alkemade will give a presentation entitled "The Importance of Capital Project & Turnaround Integration". This presentation includes such topics as:
- Why capital intensive turnarounds are still struggling to meet desired objectives
- How poor integration of project and turnaround teams is a major contributing factor to less than optimum performance
- What natural barriers must be broken down to ensure proper event planning and preparation
- How the "Integration Index" assists event teams in indentifying and acknowledging deficiencies at an early stage
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Turnaround Industry Network Conference 2009 |
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Bethesda, Maryland, June 2009 — The Turnaround Industry Network Conference (TINC) is the premier turnaround symposium to share best practices proven to deliver safe, event-free, and predictable turnaround outcomes. TINC is an invitation-only conference for owner-operators, and is the only forum exclusively for turnaround professionals. TINC is sponsored by Asset Performance Networks, and is organized by a steering committee comprised of 12 owner-operator companies. It is governed by a strict code of conduct to ensure compliance with antitrust laws.
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TINC - AMERICAS: October 7-9, 2009 - Houston, Texas
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This year, TINC – Americas was held on October 7th - 9th in Houston. It featured owner company executives (from Chevron, Shell and Hovensa) keynoting each day of the conference. It also featured a quantitative benchmarking analysis of turnaround practices for each company with representative data in the AP-Networks database. Additionally, TINC had the following: an expert panel; a NaviTrack Power Users' session; a NaviTrack user training; and many other turnaround specific presentations and breakouts.
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Eighth Annual Shutdowns Superconference, Calgary, December 2009 |
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AP-Networks Sponsors 2009 Shutdown Superconference, December 8-9, Alberta, Canada
Bethesda, Maryland, December 2009 — Asset Performance Networks once again sponsored this year's Shutdown Superconference on December 8th and 9th in Calgary, Alberta at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. This year’s conference featured the most internationally diverse roster of experts who shared their knowledge and solutions that can be applied to a site or company’s next shutdown. The Shutdown Superconference was a 2-day event that is the only Canadian event of its kind, providing a forum for delegates and speakers from a wide variety of industry sectors. John Crager, a Senior Consultant from Asset Performance Networks, and Ken Yurkiw, Manager of Turnaround Process Development at Suncor Energy, presented on the topic of “Implementing a Best-in-Class Outage Management Process for Oil Sands”. This case study provided:
- An overview of some of the challenges faced by the site
- Details regarding the efforts used to implement an updated turnaround work process based on benchmarking best-in-class performers across industry
- Managing various stakeholders from all key site functional disciplines
- Examining technical support specialists throughout the enterprise, including tools and job aids
- Exploring the initiatives that have worked to significantly improve planning, preparation, and execution of shutdowns
In addition, Asset Performance Networks provided information about our products and services for the turnaround sector, and gave hands-on demonstrations of the following software tools aimed at improving turnaround performance: Turnaround-Network.com©, NaviTrack™, and Pyxis©. Our tools and services have been implemented by a growing number of Canadian companies, including Alberta Envirofuels, Suncor, and Shell. |
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