Shutdown, Turnaround & Outage (STO) Control

Proper preparation will make the difference between a successful turnaround and a failure. Despite their critical role in plant reliability and company profitability, it is surprising how many organizations still face challenges in effectively planning and executing these critical events.

About the course

Cost Engineering Academy’s Shutdown, Turnaround, and Outage (STO) Control course offers a dynamic blend of expert knowledge and practical experience in an interactive format. This course is designed to boost your and your organization’s ability to manage and control STOs effectively. Engage with industry experts, enhance your understanding, and expand your skills in this essential field. Connect with peers and delve deeper into the practices that drive successful turnarounds and outages.

Cost Engineering Academy aims to familiarize you with methods you can use immediately after the course. As part of the interactive sessions, you will be given case studies based on real project situations that need to be solved in groups. These cases will allow you to put the knowledge you have just gained into practice.

Course objectives:

Know how to plan a STO:

• Estimating and budgeting
• Risk and contingency
• Work package planning
• Scheduling and resource management
• Tendering and contracting

Learn to control the execution of STOs:

• Progress measurement
• Cost control and forecasting strategies
• Performance management
• Change management

How to close out the STO:

• Analyzing STO effectiveness
• Continuous improvement

Learn from case studies and practical examples:

• Analysis of real-world STO examples
• Interactive exercises and problem solving

Our Clients

The Cost Engineering Academy is trusted by many industry leaders, such as:

This course is suitable for everyone who is part of any team that executes industrial turnarounds. The course content, practical exercises and cases are focused on the process industry. This typically includes (petro) chemical, power, mining, food, pharmaceutical, waste, etc.

This course is aimed at:

• STO Managers and Coordinators
• Maintenance and Reliability Engineers
• Project Managers
• Cost estimators
• Schedulers
• Cost and project controllers
• Contract managers
• STO team members

Requirements

Basic understanding of projects, maintenance or turnarounds. A technical background helps interpret and translate the information to practice.

Course Program

• STO strategy and economics
• Estimating & budgeting
  o Estimating types through the STO lifecycle
  o Risk and contingency
• Contract management & tendering
  o Contracting strategies
  o Contractor evaluation and selection
• Scheduling
  o Long range planning & milestones
  o Ghant charts & CPM methods
  o Resource leveling
• Cost control
  o Setting up a baseline for control
  o Earned value management
• Progress management
  o Progress measurement techniques
  o Monitoring the preparation and execution
  phases
• Change management
  o Scope change management process
  o Field change management process
• Benchmarking
  o Data analytics
  o Typical benchmarks for STO
• System integration
  o Setting up integrated STO processes
  o Transition to digital solutions
  o Latest developments

Download the Shutdown, Turnaround, and Outage Control course program.

Price

The Turnaround, Shutdown & Outage (STO) Control course is offered in classroom format, hosted from our headquarters in the Netherlands (city of Zwijndrecht). The price per participant is as follows:

Subscription price: €1900.-

Please contact us in case you want to subscribe a group, or organize this course in-house at your premises.