Reliability & Maintenance Fundamentals, Benchmarking & Performance Improvement

This workshop will explain the important fundamental principles of Reliability and Maintenance, and will explain the concepts of performance monitoring and performance improvement. Specifically, the workshop will provide a detailed discussion of the learning from the Solomon Associates global Reliability and Maintenance Benchmark study. The Solomon RAM study provides real data to illustrate the achievements of the better performers, and the financial value of performance improvement. The presentation will share some key lessons that can be learned from the study, in order to help organisations understand:

• Characteristics of high performing organisations
• Where to focus improvement efforts
• What actions to take andwhattargets to set
• How to monitor the performance improvements
• What results to expect

The workshop will explain how to calculate the value of Reliability and Maintenance performance improvement and demonstrate that the appropriate actions for an organisation to take depend on the nature of the performance gap, not just its magnitude. The workshop will conclude with a discussion of performance monitoring and performance improvement, and will utilize Solomon Associate’s experience and insights into the actions taken by high performing organisations in relentless pursuit of performance excellence.

Excellence in Process Safety
Management

This course will take the participants through the stages of process safety and environmental management in a straight forward and practical manner. The course is interspersed with practical examples and hands on application of the techniques required to successfully strengthen the process safety management in your organisations. It will demonstrate why unexpected events can develop out of control and how barriers can be implemented to halt the progress of the consequences. The sessions will cover a range of existing techniques to the latest approaches to integrating safety into the "mind" of the corporate culture.

Operational Excellence in Oil, Gas & Petrochemicals

In today’s volatile business environment, organisations need to create competitive advantage in order to be successful. In the GCC, significant investments have been made in new plants which now must be run optimally in order to achieve world class performance. Organisations are now developing Operational Excellence strategies in order to maximise asset performance.
This course is designed to share the principles of Operational Excellence and to give practical strategies that can be applied in continuous process environments. The course will focus on both the people dimension of OE, together with practical ideas for implementation in oil, gas and petrochemical facilities.