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Shutdowns, Turnarounds and Outages
Streamline your management and control systems
Managing plant Shutdown, Turnaround, and 0utages (STO's) can be the biggest and most complicated demand on maintenance resources. Identifying, planning, staffing, and coordinating the effort of hundreds of craftsmen and their support equipment, in a compressed timeframe, while minimizing downtime and costs is a massive challenge and requires tight control over the intricate network of activities. On an average a planned shutdown lasts 25 days and costs a plant approximately $1 million dollars a day of lost revenue. Every hour is critical.
While SAP is the core system for managing plant STO cycles handling key data such as work orders, materials and cost controls, many organizations have chosen to use third-party applications to perform specialized tasks such as scheduling, resource management, work clearance management, work package production and reporting.
In order to execute the most efficient STO cycle possible, these third-party systems must be tightly integrated with SAP. Many enterprises lack a robust data integration solution between SAP and their other plant management applications. This results in large amounts of manual data entry to keep both systems updated which is labor intensive, error prone, and expensive. Latency in manual updates between systems results in static, outdated data which impairs management's ability to make informed decisions and react to project and unscheduled events delays.
Pipeline offers a variety of data integration and web solutions that enable companies to dramatically improve the efficiency of managing plant STO cycles in an SAP-centric environment.
Pipeline solutions for SAP-centric shutdown, turnaround and outage management:
Contact us to learn more about how Pipeline can help you with integrating your project management process.
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