About
The Process Plant Troubleshooting Course interactive workshop is designed for groups involved in troubleshooting manufacturing facilities in the process industry and for introducing industry best practices in process plant troubleshooting. The course focus on resolving process facilities issues such as unit capacity, quality, and reliability. The course, ideally suited for engineers in the operations support roles as well as for the lead operators, provides hands-on training to create a common language and a working knowledge of effective process plant troubleshooting techniques.
The course emphasizes the principles of effective process plant troubleshooting:
Defining the sequence of events
Formulating a theoretically correct working hypothesis
Providing a means to test the hypothesis
Providing a foolproof means to eliminate the problem
Target Audience
These workshops are designed for individuals and teams desiring a working knowledge and understanding of this best practice approach to process plant troubleshooting. The goal is to have trained participants to be able to work much more effectively with experienced operations support engineers and operators, thus enabling a focus on quality and creativity in the process. Recommended audience includes:
Fresh Engineers
Engineers moving to operations support positions
Operations support engineer
Applications Engineers
Lead Operators
First line operations supervisors
Operations Manager
You Will Learn
- Significance of daily monitoring
- Setting monitoring trigger points
- Best practices for verifying process data
- Conducting successful plant tests
- Key steps of problem solving
- Simplifying and optimizing solutions
- Organizational communication best practices in problem solving mode
- Prioritizing managerial objectives in trouble shooting phase
- Application to hydraulics
- Application to fractionators
- Application to heat exchangers & reactors
- Application to unsteady state & batch processes
- Utilization of software & manual computations
- Application to real life problems