Continuously operating process plants need to plan outages, also known as turnarounds, from time to time to perform maintenance and improvements not possible while the process is online. Every day of downtime is lost revenue, so carefully planning the actions to be...
Turnarounds, also known as planned shutdowns and outages, are the intense window of time to optimize and fix all the issues to get the process running back to peak performance. According to an Asset Performance Networks study, Benchmarking and Optimizing Maintenance...
Last week's Petrochemical Engineering & Construction and Gulf Coast Shutdowns & Turnarounds conferences took place in New Orleans. Here are excepts from the full posts over on the Top Quartile Performance site. Beyond Best Practice: The Latest Thinking in...
The petrochemical industry has benefitted from the huge supply increase of natural gas and liquids from shale gas here in the U.S. I'm in New Orleans for the next few days at the Petrochemical Engineering & Construction conference. Simultaneously the Gulf Coast...
While Early Bird Registration for the October 12-16 Emerson Exchange Conference in Denver remains open, let's highlight a few more presentations from the conference. Emerson's Nikki Bishop is teaming with Shell's Sara Hough on a presentation, Closing the Gap:...
Update and bump: A recorded version of this webinar is now available. Visit here for a listing of other recorded & archived webinars. Original post: An unplanned shutdown can ruin your whole day, or two, or three… Not only do these unplanned shutdowns have impact on...
Back in March in a post, Safety System Considerations for Process Fired Heaters, I shared some thoughts from a presentation by Emerson's Nikki Bishop and David Sheppard. The good news is that their thoughts are now available in a PTQ article, Role of fired heater...
If you'll be joining us at the September 30-October 4 Emerson Exchange conference in the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas area, and asset reliability is on your list of things to learn more about, I suggest a few workshops for you. Emerson's Nikki Bishop, a Senior Application...
In an earlier post, Safety System Considerations for Process Fired Heaters, I highlighted an American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) paper by Emerson's Nikki Bishop and Dave Sheppard. In this post, I'll share the safety system design, selection and...
The American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) will hold their 2013 annual meeting next week, just down the road from here in San Antonio Texas. This March 17-19 conference assembles key executives, decision-makers, and technical experts from refining...
In the February 2013 edition of Chemical Industry Digest, University of Texas Separations Research Program (SRP)'s Robert Montgomery and Emerson's Pete Sharpe and Nikki Bishop authored, Manage Essential Assets with Automated Monitoring. In prior posts, we've discussed...
Wireless technologies have established their value in process automation. In a MaintWorld magazine article, Remote, Automated Monitoring Keeps a Watchful Eye on Essential Assets 24/7 (pp. 14-16), Emerson's Nikki Bishop and Aaron Crews describe how these wireless...
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