Today, more and more sites are challenged to meet the inspection workloads during a STO event due to tight schedule durations, resource constraints and budget challenges.
All teams recognize the need to inspect equipment to maintain safety and reliability objectives but default to STO to get things done. Many organizations resist the opportunities available of doing this critical work outside of the event due to numerous reasons, which create a significant workload during a time and resource limited period. In many cases, this places a site in a noncompetitive position and overwhelms site capabilities.
Competitive organizations take opportunities to spread the work out over the unit’s run length and conduct inspections outside the STO event and reduce peak workloads, balance the approach of equipment inspection, and take advantage of opportunities to inspect equipment on a timely and competitive basis while improving overall reliability and safety.
This presentation will outline the advantages and techniques that can be used to rebalance your inspection workload and provide your organization insights on how to optimize your inspection workload.
Presentation will consist of:
- Current issues in industry limiting the ability to inspect equipment during a STO event- Reasons why organizations due a majority of inspections in a STO- Disadvantages of conducting inspecting during a STO- What are the competitive advantages of finding and taking advantage to execute equipment inspections out side of a STO.- Techniques and methodologies to minimize inspection during a STO period
Frank Engli is a Senior Maintenance and STO advisor at Becht and resides in Edmonton, Alberta.
Frank has over thirty-eight years of experience working in operation settings at six different sites on project, maintenance, HSSE and STO management and continuous improvement processes in the energy, refinery and petrochemical industry.
Mr. Engli has engineering and business degrees (BASc, M.Eng and MBA) and a Six Sigma Black Belt (Lean) skills in solving site problems and a proven track record to implement change and create sustaining management programs and processes. He is a licensed engineer in provinces of Alberta and Ontario.
