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Larry L. Olson
Tel: +1 - 919 510 8142
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Asset and Service Management
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Asset & Service Management – Enhance Performance

In most industries production systems have become increasingly integrated and ever-more reliant on automation and sophisticated technologies. This has brought great benefits as well as challenges for managers who face a massive increase in the volume and complexity of data and communication. Daily decision-making is now not only burdened with the continuous pressure to deliver higher availability, lower cost and continuous improvement, but also escalating concerns regarding safety, environmental issues and investor confidence.

T.A. Cook’s Asset & Service Management offering covers the whole asset lifecycle from conception, through design and construction to commissioning and operation. It is the core of your and our business and we offer a unique combination of technical, managerial and commercial support to identify and solidify improvements from a simple maintenance audit through to a complete overhaul of the structures, way-of-working and culture of a unit, plant or even business unit. We provide clients with all the tools and knowledge to successfully manage and execute projects, maintenance and shutdowns across a variety of industries ahead of time and below budget. Typical results are a 20% to 30% reduction in annual costs of Turnarounds (TARs), Projects and Maintenance. Our clients continue to use us across their businesses because we have a unique set of skills to nurture and/or bring critical competences back in-house and move beyond benchmarking into sustainable implementation.

Please click on the “Managing Shutdowns & Turnarounds” video link on this page to see us in action.

 
Our Focus:
  • Asset Lifecycle Management – Core processes & themes:
    • Asset strategy
    • Organization & structure
    • Cost & budget control
    • Planning, scheduling & estimating
    • KPIs and alignment
    • Field management
    • Contractor management
       
  • Capital Processes – examples:
    • Engineering justification and stage gate process management
    • Project management
    • Engineering resource planning
       
  • Maintenance – examples:
    • Equipment maintenance routine optimization
    • Preventive / predictive maintenance / TPM
    • Work order processes
       
  • Turnarounds (TARs), Shutdowns and Outages – examples:
    • Cluster strategy
    • Scope management
    • Job progress & completion reporting
    • Integrated ProXelerator scheduling optimization linked to your P6/MSO/SAP data
    • Execution productivity enhancement

See also: TOP – Turnaround Optimization Program »

 
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Events
SAP Treasury Management Conference 2010 »
October 18-20 Chicago, IL
 
Case Studies
Radical Improvement of Site Turnaround Performance »

 
Process Optimization at a European Oil Refinery (Case Study) »

 
Contractor Management: Multi-Site Analysis in Latin America (Case Study) »

 
Implementation of key processes for a successful shutdown execution (Case Study) »

 
Increase in operational output in an international chemical business (Case Study) »

 
Asset Performance Management (Fact Sheet) »

 
Cost Reduction & Operational Review at a European Petrochemical Plant (Case Study) »

 
Identifying cost drivers in large scale downtimes in the chemical industry (Case Study) »

 
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