Smart Shutdowns: Avoid Costly Mistakes with Your Outages
Historically, maintenance textbooks have defined a shutdown as “an unplanned equipment failure event that causes an operational production line, process, area or section of a plant to be temporarily turned off or closed for emergency repair, and resumed to operational status immediately following the repair of the failed equipment.” Turnarounds are defined as “a planned event that required the closure of an entired operational plant or facility to perform one or many pre-planned technology or system upgrades, equipment upgrades, and maintenance restorations, within a defined time period.”