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Shutdowns, Turnarounds & Outages

Shutdowns, Turnarounds & Outages

AP-Networks’ Integral Role in Supporting STOs

Shutdowns, turnarounds and outages (STOs) are periodic planned facility or process unit outages used to perform maintenance work and install new capital projects. STOs are significant events, often involving a workforce of thousands executing tasks in a compressed time frame. STOs impact the bottom line through the cost of the event, lost opportunity due to downtime and potential impact to plant reliability if the turnaround is executed poorly – in addition to significant safety and environmental risks.

Powerful Solutions Housed in One Place

At AP-Networks, we provide powerful solutions for the achievement of successful STO outcomes across all capital-intensive industries. Our skilled team of innovators developed the world’s foremost practices for helping clients improve STO outcomes, proven by decades of success using our unmatched data, technology, analytics and expertise. Our proprietary technology and processes have laid the foundation for changing how many of the Global Fortune 100 heavy industry companies approach STOs, equipping them to ensure event-free, predictable and competitive outcomes.

Change the Way You Approach STOs

We’ve developed industry-pioneering, cloud-based tools to improve STO preparation. The game-changing solutions listed here are included in our Turnaround Network digital platform.

NaviTrack

NaviTrack is our industry-leading flagship tool for work process deployment. With job aids, reports and activity-based assignments, this tool focuses team and stakeholder attention on best practices to reach optimum FEL to drive flawless execution.

iNTrack

iNTrack is our game-changing solution that creates a dynamic link between the work processes for capital projects and STOs. It integrates seamlessly and allows for free flow of information between your project and maintenance teams.

Risk Manager

The Risk Manager from AP-Networks enables you to predict cost, schedule, safety and operability outcomes based on the inherent risks to your particular STO event.

Cost of Change Calculator

AP-Networks’ Cost of Change Calculator allows you to dynamically model the impacts to event cost when an STO is faced with late changes to scope and/or event timing.

Complexity Calculator

The Complexity Calculator provides categories based on independently correlated characteristics to ensure that preparation plans and tools are optimized for your particular STOs.

PYXIS

PYXIS is our risk management tool that draws on our unrivaled dataset to give your risk management process a powerful foundation. Track mitigation, measure risk reduction and pre-populate registers with industry risks drawn from our capital project database.

acXis

acXis is our innovative action register tool that brings any and all of your team’s action items together and gives you a comprehensive view of everything that needs to get done, all within the AP-Networks suite of tools.

LLern

LLern™ is our “lessons learned” management tool that ensures improvement opportunities are fully realized across your facility. Transform your static lessons learned lists into actions within your continuous improvement program.

Customized Solutions

Need something specific? The AP-Networks Customized Solutions team works with clients using our industry expertise to develop customized, cloud-based applications for improving the management of STOs and capital projects.

NaviTrack for Storage Tanks

NaviTrack for Storage Tanks is our industry-leading flagship tool for work process deployment specifically tailored for use in storage tank STOs. This tool focuses team and stakeholder attention to drive flawless execution.

Turnaround Readiness Pyramid

The Readiness Pyramid is a self-assessment tool that provides a critical and comprehensive overview of STO preparation and readiness relative to planning phase and industry best practices using AP-Networks’ unrivaled industry data.

Offshore Turnaround Readiness Pyramid

The Offshore Readiness Pyramid is a self-assessment tool that provides a comprehensive overview of preparation and organizational readiness for offshore turnarounds relative to industry best practices.

Outage Pyramid

The Outage Pyramid is a self-assessment tool that provides a comprehensive overview of preparation and readiness for outages relative to industry best practices using data from thousands of outages across industries.

We Drive Breakthrough Performance in STOs

We’re committed to providing customers with the services necessary to achieve predictable and competitive outcomes. Our comprehensive suite of services ranges from our Advanced Benchmarking Methodology and Cost Estimate Risk Analysis to Facilitated Risk Workshops and so much more. At AP-Networks, we partner with our clients to deliver data-driven solutions that will lead you to successful STO outcomes.

Turnaround Benchmarking

Our Turnaround Benchmarking studies enable the comparison of STOs to industry norms and top performers for all facets of your events, including planned and actual cost performance, cost components, scope, productivity, duration, labor hours, safety and operability.

Turnaround Scope Index (TSI)

TSI is the result of years of AP-Networks research and serves as the first service of its kind. The index empirically quantifies the turnaround scope by equipment type and process unit type, enabling the benchmarking of scope relative to industry.

Turnaround Assist Program (T-AP)

The T-AP is a phased series of engagements during which our experienced turnaround associates provide your team with an objective perspective on the current preparation status and actions that are necessary to achieve a successful STO outcome.

Integrated Turnaround Assist Program (iT-AP)

Our iT-AP engagements enhance the T-AP program by providing an additional quantified focus on successful capital project integration during complex STOs, resulting in aligned event-level teams for preparation and execution.

Upstream Turnaround Assist Program (UT-AP)

The uT-AP is tailored to optimize readiness and ensure best practices are implemented using comparative data to address the specific challenges and constraints inherent in upstream and offshore shutdowns.

Facilitated Turnaround Risk Workshop

AP-Networks’ Facilitated Turnaround Risk Workshop provides a proven, ready-made structure for teams to identify, assess, and prioritize risks as well as develop mitigation-contingency action plans proactively and systematically.

Risk-Based Scope Review

The RBSR provides a proven, structured methodology utilizing objective, quantified elements of reliability and risk for the specific equipment in your preliminary workscope list to set the optimal frozen scope for your STO.

Turnaround Experience Augmentation

Our Turnaround Experience Augmentation services aim to complement the experience of a company or site’s staff with the expertise of our consultants—a team including former VPs, site managers and turnaround managers.

Turnaround Interval Management Program (TIMP)

TIMP is a comprehensive strategy-setting process designed to establish the optimal STO intervals for your facility and event portfolio, optimizing value across your specific process areas and STO drivers.

Turnaround Work Process Development and Implementation

We use our extensive collection of STO best practice data bolstered by our experience to craft STO work processes that become the road maps to success. These processes help organizations implement uniform standards for quality, efficiency and timing while avoiding common pitfalls.

Turnaround Value Practices (TVP)

Based on our research program which identified 21 distinct TVPs that drove superior turnaround performance, our team can determine which of these out-of-the-ordinary practices can drive improved competitiveness at your facility.

Digital Platforms

To create a more efficient user experience for our clients, we’ve developed portals specific to our suite of software tools that allow you to access the innovative applications you need for turnarounds, shutdowns and outages. With our Digital Platforms, your team can leverage the industry’s most powerful suite of tools and collaborate to drive superior outcomes, all in one place.

Turnaround Network

The Turnaround Network houses the world’s most innovative digital tools for turnaround preparation and execution. This cloud-based platform is home to proprietary AP-Networks assurance tools and best practices, offering tried-and-tested means of driving strategy, decision making, effective preparation and continuous improvement.

Upstream Network

The Upstream Network is home to AP-Networks’ digital toolset for offshore and on-shore upstream STOs implemented by industry leaders globally. This cloud-based platform allows our clients to effectively utilize tools that are empirically proven to produce superior outcomes for upstream events.

Outage Network

The Outage Network hosts industry-proven tools critical for successful power generation outage management. This network is a first-of-its-kind outage management platform, designed exclusively for the power industry. The platform leverages proven tools trusted by the world’s largest global energy companies.

Learning Systems

The Turnaround Network houses the world’s most innovative digital tools for turnaround preparation and execution. This cloud-based platform is home to proprietary AP-Networks assurance tools and best practices, offering tried-and-tested means of driving strategy, decision making, effective preparation and continuous improvement.

A Comprehensive Database of Turnaround Characteristics and Outcomes

We have the world’s largest and most comprehensive database of observations derived from thousands of unique STO events. At AP-Networks, we understand that measuring and tracking the performance of STOs is essential for long-term operational success. Our Turnaround Database and Upstream Turnaround Database contain critical information that influences decision-making and allows for analytics that lead to successful performance and outcomes.

AP-Networks Turnaround Database

Our Turnaround Database contains information on planned and actual STO outcomes, key characteristics and both preparation and execution practices that are correlated with outcomes. This database aids clients in making strategic decisions to achieve predictable and competitive outcomes.

AP-Networks Upstream Turnaround Database

Our Upstream Turnaround Database is a detailed collection of data and analytics taken from upstream STO events. This database allows us to benchmark client events relative to industry and provide insight into the causal factors behind success and failure.

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