Shutdown, Turnaround and Outage Planning
Shutdown planning is the full preparation of a maintenance shutdown, turnaround or outage, from the estimate and resourcing through to the execution programme. A shutdown lives or dies on the plan: the window is fixed, the work is dense, and every hour of overrun is production lost. Project Scheduling develops complete shutdown plans for mining and heavy industrial operations across Australia, so the work is scoped, resourced and sequenced to finish on time and on budget.
The Window Does Not Move
A shutdown is unlike normal construction. The plant comes down on a set date and time and must be back up on schedule, with hundreds of tasks compressed into a fixed outage. There is no float to absorb a loose plan. Every activity has to be sequenced, resourced and de-risked before the shutdown starts, because once it does, there is no time to recover a plan that does not hold. Planning is where a shutdown is won or lost.
The Full Package
The execution programme is the anchor. Around it sits the complete planning package:
Draft estimate for the shutdown scope, so the budget is set before work is committed
Benchmark-based resourcing, sized from industry norms where your data is not yet available
Resource histograms and S-curves identifying peak crew and equipment demand across the outage
Constructability review and methodology statement, testing the sequence before execution
Detailed execution programme in Primavera P6, fully logic-linked with a defensible critical path
Quality schedule passing DCMA schedule quality metrics
Cost and cashflow forecast across the shutdown window
Shutdown-specific calendars reflecting shift patterns, around-the-clock working and access constraints
Interfaces between disciplines and work fronts shown in the programme
Basis of Schedule setting out calendars, sequence logic, assumptions and the critical path
Native programme file for you to run and update during execution
Built for Execution, Not Just Approval
A shutdown plan has to work on the tools, not just pass a gate. The programme is built to the level of detail the execution team actually runs to, with the sequencing, resourcing and access constraints that determine whether the work fronts flow or collide. When the shutdown starts, you are working to a plan that reflects the real job.
Independent and Sector-Specific
Project Scheduling works across mining and heavy industrial shutdowns, turnarounds and outages. The work is independent and delivered directly, so the plan reflects your operation and your constraints, not a generic template.
Know your resourcing and cost position before the plant comes down, and finish the shutdown on time. Let us plan your next shutdown together.