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Sunday, 16 March 2014

Planning Outages

Most companies, as part of their annual business plan, develop an outage schedule that is based on anticipated business cycle or perceived maintenance requirements. This outage schedule contains all shut down dates for critical production systems. Unfortunately, most of these plans do not consider the impact on capacity. An effective outage schedule should be configured to minimise loss of production capacity, product quality and the potential increase in overall operating cost that can result from poorly coordinated outage...