Guessing is not a strategy: How to build decision velocity with AI and real-time data
June 10, 2026 | Live Webinar
Turn It Around
On turnaround or shutdown projects, changes to scope can occur daily, even hourly. And downtime is often measured in hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars per minute. Critical path analytical techniques and detailed storyboards to schedule every step of the turnaround are fundamental to success.
Shutdown or turnaround projects have been around for decades. They’re nearly as old as Dick Clark. They began as maintenance projects in huge industrial plants, but the concept expanded to projects such as computer or network changeovers, the installation of new communications systems, and other projects that run on a short fuse.
What defines them? Simple: The execution of these projects is very quick, with durations measured in minutes and hours instead of days and weeks. What’s more, the downtime inherent in shutdown/turnaround projects can often be measured in hundreds (if not thousands) of dollars per minute in lost revenues. Careers, including yours, can easily be made or lost in this cauldron of high-pressure.
So, do we have your attention? Good, because it’s vital to manage shutdown/turnaround projects as tightly as possible. And you’ve got two choices to manage them:
First, you can seek out people who’ve been there and done that based on their experience, personality and sheer will, and then rely on …
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