Chemical Engineering
Process Trouble Shooting and Problem Solving
Introduction
Excellent Troubleshooting skills are considered a core competency for Best-in-Class industrial companies. If your company’s goals include minimizing downtime then this workshop is a must because it delivers rapid, safe Troubleshooting.
Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Focus on how to become a Top Gun Troubleshooter
- Develop a structured approach to Troubleshooting and Problem Solving which uses common terminology and shared understanding
- Point the way to Continuous Improvement in the way you run your processes and make incremental efficiency gains
- Understand the difference between having techniques manual on the bookshelf and actually making it work
- Identify the motivated people who should be the champions of Troubleshooting and Problem Solving and who should just follow
- Understand work practices which allow success in Troubleshooting and Problem Solving
Target Audience
- Supervisors who are involved in the operations function and who are responsible for leading and directing people to achieve and improve productivity levels
- Those faced with the challenge of actually using the various techniques of Troubleshooting and Problem Solving to reduce downtime and waste and improve run efficiencies will benefit
- It is of equal importance to Production, Maintenance Engineering and Process Engineering personnel
Chemical Engineering Outline
The course covers the following topics:
Concepts
- The nature of process problems affecting performance
- Performance defined in terms of generic variables: Speed; Quality; and Cost
- Effort inputs in context - Asset-based or Business Process-based
- Structured approach - The Operations Process redefined
- Configuration; Operation; and Optimization
- Maturity Indexing: Planning; Control, Congruence, Empowerment
- 6 Big Losses, 7 Wastes
Tools and Techniques - Practical Experience
- Interactive and Dynamic variable relationships analysis
- Techniques introduction
- Tools introduction
- Problem Analysis
- Practical Use of Tools and Techniques
- Tools and Techniques - selecting the right one
People Issues
- Working practices - empowerment or impairment?
- Group dynamics
- Individual motivators
- Developing Troubleshooting and Problem-Solving skills
- Managing change
Operator, Maintainer, Designer Interface
- Cross-functional and Teamworking
- Introduction to the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving
- Auditing your process to a dynamic standard
- Effect of Maintenance Operations strategy
- Development of Standards and Key Performance Indicators
- Life Cycle Costing, Design for Operation, Design for Maintenance
Open Forum
- Revisit Concepts, Tools and Techniques
- Action Plan
Ref | Location | From | To | Cost |
CE07 | Cairo | 22-9-2024 | 26-9-2024 |