Project Excellence and Assurance Consulting (PEACSM)
Asset Performance Networks believes that the keys to project success are in the critical project definition phases. The PEAC program provides
project teams with a series of targeted workshops and consulting support to help project teams achieve the optimum level of project preparation and team integration prior to starting the detailed engineering and construction phases. They also help project teams implement a comprehensive risk management process.
Our professional workshop team provides your company with an objective, outside perspective on all strategic decisions and tactical activities needed to execute a successful project. The workshops help project teams:
Align stakeholders on business objectives and priorities.
Identify threats to meeting objectives and develops a plan to deal with them.
Identify and evaluate the severity of risks.
Develop an effective strategy for managing interfaces
Evaluate implementation of best-practices to date and develop a plan to close gaps
Achieve superior team integration and communication
Our consultants have performed readiness and risk workshops for a diverse set of capital projects including refinery projects, chemical plants, offshore oil and gas production projects, export pipelines, power plants, and expansions. The Asset Performance Networks consultants are also experienced presenters and facilitators who specialize in building dialogue and alignment across functional areas.
The workshops can be used at various stages of the capital project life-cycle as shown below:
The objectives of each workshop are tailored to the specific phase of the project:
Setting Business Priorities:
Develop, define, and prioritize business and project objectives
Challenge Session:
Identify gaps with best practice and develop action plans to close them.
Readiness Assessment:
Evaluate readiness to proceed into project execution.
Execution Intervention:
Mid-execute check on project execution progress and an assessment of the probability of meeting project objectives.
Project Closeout:
Identify, capture, and communicate key learning opportunities.
Project Risk Workshops
Effective risk management is a critical component for the delivery of excellent capital projects. The primary objective of risk management is to improve business performance by avoiding surprises and reducing the chances of poor performance. Asset Performance Networks provides project teams with one-to-two day risk workshops to help teams identify, quantify, and manage risks.
Detailed project risk register for tracking progress
Increased visibility of risk across all team members
Standardized approach across all disciplines in identifying and assessing risk
Improved prioritization of actions
Better communication to management on threats and opportunities
Maturity Assessment of Plant Project Systems (MAPPSSM)
A Targeted Program to Improve Plant-Managed Capital Project Performance
Increasing amounts of capital are spent on plant-managed capital projects. Industry studies have shown that these types of projects have significantly poorer performance than major projects. Despite the opportunities for improvement and savings, these smaller projects have often received comparatively little attention.
To address this need, Asset Performance Networks developed the Maturity Assessment of Plant Project Systems (MAPPS). This program is a systematic approach to evaluate and analyze the competitiveness of an organization's plant based project system, recommend and help implement proven solutions, and track long-term performance. The MAPPS establishes a performance baseline and improvement plan to deliver superior system performance.
Various project-related studies highlight the industry's inability to avoid costly project failures. Over 30% of all projects in the Oil + Gas sector exceed their budget as well as schedule by at least 10%. Projects on a downward trend are infamously difficult to return to acceptable performance and, depending on size, may end up adversely impacting a company's shareholder value as well.
AP-Networks Capital Project Recovery Services provide clients with a rapid assessment and effective response to failing projects in real-time as well as actionable advice on regaining control over individual project disciplines. When quick recovery becomes necessary, you need reliable partners on your side.
AP Networks multi-disciplinary Capital Project Recovery Services include:
Project Controls Assessment
Review of progress schedules
Establish labor productivity measurement system
Examine Earned Value (EV) calculations
Review contract requirements for project controls
Analyze cost reports and systems
Project Recovery
Rapid status reviews and analysis
Create recovery schedules
Plan recovery program (steps)
Recover costs through project audits
Contract Review & Dispute Avoidance
Pre-execution contract and document reviews
Highlight areas of contractual concern and exposure
Identify possible warning signs for potential claims
Provide claims administration assistance
AP-Networks' experienced Senior Consultants provide the above services, and have proven track records of managing large-scale project initiatives and creating innovative approaches to analyzing operational challenges. As industry experts in project management disciplines and establishing controls in highly complex environments, we excel in providing the highest value for our clients.
The strength of AP-Networks' services is based on the seamless integration of our product delivery, application of proven industry processes, depth of capital project experience, and unrivaled industry data repositories. Our consultants routinely conduct research on a wide variety of project issues and present findings at major industry conferences. Take advantage of a proven leader's capital project knowledge.