Operational Excellence in the Process Industry

Description

Duration 5 days 

Course description 

This is a training course that presents the best practices from High-Reliability Organizations (HROs) with respect to both excellence and safety. High-Reliability Organization is a term that refers to industries such as oil and gas, process, nuclear and aviation, where they possess a high degree of reliability despite their hazardous environment. It shows how organizations can learn from failures and near misses, as well as from other industries. Operational excellence will cover aspects of safety, risk, reliability, and quality management. This will include best practices at both strategic and operational levels, as well as in specific areas that relate to management skills, reliability and decision analysis, benchmarking, and information systems. This training course is designed to be highly interactive and applied, where theory is put into solid practice. 

Who can attend 

  • Operations Professionals
  • Process Professionals
  • Reliability & Maintenance Professionals
  • Safety Professionals
  • Other professionals involved in process improvement 

What you will learn 

  • Understanding of safety, risk and continuity of operations
  • Development of people management skills
  • Mastering techniques that can enhance plant reliability
  • How to conduct benchmarking and quality systems auditing
  • Applying decision analysis approaches

Course objectives 

  • Explain the benefits of acquiring best practices from HROs
  • Show how activities play a part in helping their organization perform at a higher level
  • Determine methods for generating and implementing effective performance metrics
  • Use a process improvement methodology back at work
  • Analyze critically the methodologies employed in the organization & implement improvements