DEFINITION
Turnaround is a planned shutdown of any plant where a large number of activities, in terms of various of discipline have to be executed in a specified / predefined duration. The major challenges in this activity lie with completing the activities and restore the Reliability and Integrity of the facility within the defined premises of duration as per the Corporate Business Plan.
Turnaround entails an extensive seamless planning, resource mobilization and optimization to make it successful in this resourced scarce environment. Typically the planning takes 12 to 18 months for an execution ranging around 2 to 4 weeks hence the whole lifecycle should be considered as a project from its inception to realization. During Turnaround execution the proper monitoring of the whole jobs / activities is required to avoid any delay / slippage from the execution plan.