TABLE OF CONTENTS Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision, the ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
Andrew Carnegie, Industrialist.
Author: Mahen Das
Location: 2.4.1 Medium-Sized Semi-Complex Petroleum Refinery
Prior to my arrival, the refinery already had a fairly advanced work planning process in place. For major projects and plant shutdowns (called turnarounds in North America), they used Critical Path or Network Planning. Commercially-available software with resource leveling capability was used for this purpose. Once project execution began, however, there was little or no progress monitoring and updating of the plan. The critical path charts remained as decorations on the wall.
Preparation for a shutdown generally meant pulling out the last work-list, adding the current wishes of the operating and inspection departments, estimating the contract work volume, and converting the list into a critical path plan. Operators added the operational tasks of shutting down, gas-freeing, etc., at the front end of the plan and, separately, starting up the plants at the back end. They also added the requirements of Technologists to their plan. Project...
