Suggested Attendees: experienced Industry Personnel seeking hands-on, practical, top-quartile training for best practice planning and preparation for plant shutdowns and project turnarounds. This 3-day advanced Carver workshop will provide students with interactive, hands-on training with practical and industry specific case studies.

Learning Objectives:

• The standard shutdown steps taken by industrial companies to plan, schedule and control a shutdown or turnaround.
• Learn how to better integrate a service company's work planning with the planning of industrial asset operators.
• How to better identify, manage, and control the major shutdown variables, constraints, and risks during the implementation phase.
• How to build a stronger working partnership with the customer's Planning department by being better able to constructively contribute to the client's shutdown planning process and information.
• How industrial operators typically develop and control the scope of a shutdown.
• How industrial operators apply critical path and a flowchart or Gantt chart to trace out shutdown activities. For example, you will be able to define project-critical milestones, predecessor, and successor relationships.
• How to proactively detect schedule delays and stay on schedule and on budget.

MPL 305 is a Core Course for the:

• Maintenance Planning Specialist Certificate
• Project Management Specialist Certificate