Top Tips for Ensuring Minimal Disruption During Shutdowns & Turnarounds

Jun 18
17:38

2020

Nancy Whitman

Nancy Whitman

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One thing that is devastating to all businesses and companies is downtime during shutdowns and turnarounds. This normally means that there is a delay in production that means that there might be a shortage of the product or service that they are selling. If this sounds familiar to you, then you don’t have to worry anymore. There are a couple of things that you can do to ensure to minimize downtime. Meaning that even during shutdowns and turnarounds maintenance servicing, the company might still be functional and working. But then, you need to remember and incorporate these into your company.

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Better strategic planning

This is the secret to minimizing downtime. And,Top Tips for Ensuring Minimal Disruption During Shutdowns & Turnarounds Articles this is the one thing that will ensure that shutdowns will not happen at all. You need to consider better strategic planning of doing maintenance and repairs of equipment. So, that shutdowns won’t be needed.

One way to make sure that your strategic planning is successful, you will need to have a meeting with your maintenance team and to make sure that they know that the planning schedule needs to be adjusted to minimize downtime of equipment.                                                                                                                                        

Preventive maintenance

Many companies think that this is just a waste of money. To consider and to implement preventive maintenance. However, in the long run, this can only be beneficial for the company, and the production of goods. Even while repairs and maintenance need to be done.

Preventive maintenance means that you are doing maintenance on machines, even if the machines aren’t broken yet. Or, before real maintenance is actually needed. This type of maintenance is done during the night when production can be down.  

Invest in technology

Something that you really can consider that will also ensure that downtime and shutdowns will be minimized. To invest in the latest technology. Technology that will let you and your maintenance team know if there is a problem with the machine, before the machine show signs that there is a fault that needs to be repaired.

The latest technology will prevent shutdowns and downtime. Many companies are afraid to invest in this technology, but statistics have shown that it prevents shutdowns and downtime, not just minimizing the time of downtime while repairs are done.

Employment of maintenance crew

If you are making use of contractors to do the maintenance and repairs of your equipment, then this is something to consider. To employ an experienced and qualified maintenance crew. That is just doing the maintenance on the equipment at the company. To make use of the technology to ensure that there is a team on board all the time to ensure that machines don’t break at all. And, that they start to learn the machines to know when it needs to be maintained, even if the machine isn’t actually broken yet.

In the long run, this is something that will save a lot of time and money. Time of being shut down while waiting for the contractor to come out and to do maintenance. Money, in all the repair and service costs that contractors are asking when they are doing monthly maintenance or repairs.

There are many ways on how you can ensure that the downtime or shutdown of machinery can be minimized. So that production isn’t put on hold for long periods. These mentioned ones are just a couple of steps that you can take to limit the amount of time that production is at a halt. These are all great options that will ensure that equipment is staying at top condition and that downtime won’t be needed at all. Making your business and company successful.

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