Greg Gustafson

IDCON’s Shutdown Turnaround Optimization Process reviews the best practices to safely reduce shutdown duration and costs. The process reviews the 6 distinct phases of shutdowns or turnarounds at plants of any type. This process can be applied to both annual shutdown/ turnarounds and outage down days. The six phases of the Shutdown Turnaround Optimization Process […]

One of the main factors affecting major and minor shutdown schedules is to understand “why you are shutting down”. We call this the ‘shutdown drivers’. Shutdown driver’s fit into the following categories listed below with examples: Understanding your shutdown drivers and the timing and the expected life is critical to achieving best practice shutdown performance.

One of the most important lessons I have ever learned in my career was from a senior maintenance and turnaround manager named Don. As a young project engineer working in an oil refinery my role was to engineer small expense projects and develop job packages for execution by our in house maintenance department. Don was