Session 9: Operational Excellence (Case Studies)
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This session showcases real-world case studies highlighting strategies and solutions that drive operational excellence. Participants will gain insights into the latest approaches plant managers and their teams use to optimize production, reduce downtime, and enhance safety, focusing on both incremental improvements and transformative changes. Learn from industry leaders who have implemented practical, measurable changes in operations, covering topics such as process optimization, predictive maintenance, and cross-functional team collaboration. This session explores actionable strategies to elevate performance and achieve continuous improvement of operations.
Neil Davies & Zeeshan Zia - Steam Operations and Maintenance / Energy and Sustainability
Steam knowledge is today a rare specialty. Steam systems require significant maintenance to ensure reliable and available operations. They are also a major source of energy usage and carbon emissions, the result of burning fossil fuels.
This talk will cover the full steam loop from steam generation, steam distribution, its point of use, condensate removal, and return. It will identify the key principles employed to reduce, reuse, and recycle steam and its energy, along with primary activities and goals to ensure ongoing safe and efficient operations.
From the point of production and its journey through the distribution system, when steam is utilized its latent heat is transferred to the process and steam condenses back into water. This high-pressure water still has considerable quantities of heat energy included. Finding ways to capture this heat energy can ensure its reuse and is an effective way of ensuring energy efficiency. Priority maintenance activities will ensure steam quality and efficient processes.
Ensuring the minimum amount of steam is produced and the returning and reuse of the maximum amount of heat energy and boiler feed water will significantly reduce burning of fossil fuels and carbon emissions.
Paul Daoust - An Operational Management System for Asset Safety, Integrity & Resilience: Stories of Catastrophe and Near Miss
All the momentous industrial catastrophes appear to be a series of unfortunate events.
Upon closer examination, however, we learn of compromised people, process, and technology layers of protection to prevent or mitigate those unacceptable consequences, with each barrier failure quite manageable (if only we choose to see them).
Join Paul Daoust, SCIO Asset Management as he presents a case study on developing a practical operational management system to assure people and asset safety and integrity while improving operational resilience with near-miss stories relevant to many process industries, including yours.
