Operational Excellence

Course details

High performance is cultural as well as technical. This course will use an operational excellence model, measurement and bench marking tools to enable participants to establish priorities and decide upon improvement techniques in their operations ;

What's Special About This Course?

This course is run by Howard Thomas, a highly accredited and professional chemical engineer who has worked on hydrocarbon installations globally and delivered multi-million dollar competency programs for the new LNG assets in Australia under the Clough AMEC banner. As well as designing the programs, Howard also delivered the foundational training from physics and chemistry to full scale LNG optimization. He is widely recognized in his field, and being pursued by many energy companies. You will have the chance to not only learn the fundamentals of practical process safety but have a chance to speak and network!

Also, remember that this course is operated by WorleyParsons, a key and widely recognized player in the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC).

Course Overview

This course has been prepared to give operations teams an understanding of principles of process plant optimization beyond measuring production versus target, identifying constraints and overcoming them. We focus on the product you didn't produce, why and which problems are most important to solve, and most importantly the cultural aspects of developing people capable of delivering high operational performance.

You will Learn How to

• Understand operations as a business proposition
• Measure lost opportunity, what you could have produced
• Understand what historical lost opportunity data from many sites tells us
• Compare different improvement techniques
• Model of operational excellence
• Benchmark using the operational excellence model
• Use the measurement and benchmarking tools to establish priorities
• Plan implementation amongst day to day operation
• Differentiate between competence and mastery, the key to a high performance culture

Topics

• Measuring operational technical detail and value
• Use of Benchmark tools
• Models of operational excellence
• Use of historical data to learn how to establish priorities
• Converting technical information into a value proposition
• Creating space to implement a properly planned improvement scope
• Human cultural aspects of operations
• Moving from a reactive to proactive mindset

Updated on 04 September, 2018