8th Annual Outage Management For Power Plants Brochure (PDF 956 KB)

August 3-5, 2009Sheraton New Orleans | New Orleans, LAEnsure Success fromPlanning through toPost Outage Analysis.Dan KohlerDirector, Outage and Project ControlsAmerican Electric PowerJohn RanegarManager, Outage and Maintenance PlanningAmerican Electric PowerEd Mc Murren Plant Manager, Elks Hill PowerSempra GenerationTerry MaddoxAssistant Plant Manager, Morgantown Plant, Mirant Mid-Atlantic, LLCRobert SeayManager, OutagesWorleyParsonsJohn M. CavoteBoiler Tube Failure Prevention ExpertUnited Dynamics Advance TechnologyCorporationA. Ken Seal Manager, Operations EngineeringATCO PowerJon S. CavoteVPUnited Dynamics Advance Technology CorporationDouglas DaleSenior Advisor UMS Keith Drake Safety/Health, Fire Protection, and Security SupervisorJohn E. Amos Power Plant, AppalachianPowerLloyd WebbMaintenance ManagerTampa Electric Company (TECO Energy)Bob S. KalasDirector, Business Development – Fossil PowerDay & Zimmermann Power ServicesRandy MullinaxPlanning Manager, Plant BarryAlabama PowerFeaturing Case Studies from Leading Power Plant OutageManagement Practitioners Including:Key Speakers: Exploring Industry Best Practices in Planning, Scheduling, Maintenance and Safety to Improve Outage ProcessesWho Should Attend:Electric generation – Corporate and Power Plant Professionals with responsibilities in:• Generation• Outage Planners/Coordinators• Plant Manager/Superintendent• Plant Engineers• Reliability/SafetyBook Online At:www.marcusevansbb.com/OMPP2009Silver SponsorsAttending this Premier marcusevansConference will Enable you To: • Overcome General Strategic Scheduling Challenges within Outage Planning with WE Energies• Determine Mirant's Key Technological Advances which Reduce Outage Associated Challenges• Evaluate the Integration of Preventative Maintenance Procedures into the Power Plant with Sempra Generation• Overcome the Challenge of Depleting Boiler Maintenance Resources with Alliant• Formalize American Electric Power's Comprehensive Safety and Health Policy Within the Power PlantMedia Partners8th AnnualRichard BrandtRegional Outage ManagerAmerican Electric PowerRoger SchaverManager, Project/Outage ManagementWE EnergiesPaul Lassance Manager, Outage & Maintenance Alliant Peter BuoteVP Generation ServicesConstellation Energy1.30 Discussion of the Topical Luncheon2.00 Case Study Highlighting Attributes of a Winning Utility Alliance Partner• Defining an “Alliance Partner” from a generator perspective• Understanding the measurable outcome sought of the relationship• Exploring how willing the generator is to share and how early• Specifying what is the mutual trust and mutual success quotient• Understanding the role “personality” plays in a successful alliance relationship• Examining if divorce means you can never be married againBob S. Kalas, Director, Business Development – Fossil PowerDay & Zimmermann Power Services2.45 Networking Break3.15 Case Study Comparing the Varying Maintenance Practices of Key Assets within the Power Plant• Examining reliability centered maintenance procedures• Analyzing the pros and cons of the critically based maintenance process• Presenting an overview of preventative maintenance program• Understanding the relation of these processes to timed based maintenance• Identifying the optimal maintenance process based on outage budgeting strategiesLloyd Webb, Maintenance ManagerTampa Electric Company (TECO Energy)4.00 Case Study Evaluating the Integration of Preventative Maintenance Procedures intothe Power Plant• Identifying the processes related to preventative maintenance• Re-evaluating the maintenance process after the outage• Determining training research for maintenance item in the systems• Improving reliability in the meantime between outages and failuresEd Mc Murren, Plant Manager, Elks Hill PowerSempra Generation4.45 Closing Comments and End of Day One8.00 Registration8.45 Opening Remarks from Conference Chair9.00 Case Study Ensuring In-Depth Outage Planning for Optimal Readiness• Illustrating different approaches to outage planning• Identifying methods of reducing outage time• Examining the benefits and problems of implementing longer run times between outages• Determining the use of a critical path job process or another process to ascertain the timeframe of the outage • Planning for the outage with a dwindling workforce poolRichard Brandt, Regional Outage ManagerAmerican Electric PowerDan Kohler, Director, Outage & Project ControlsAmerican Electric PowerJohn Ranegar, Manager, Outage and Maintenance PlanningAmerican Electric Power9.45 Case Study Formalizing Procedures for Outage Preparations and Executions• Presenting a case proposal for outage preparations and a base outage scope• Ascertaining the optimal time plan for outage and its integration into the company's infrastructure• Pre-empting material procurement challenges through extensive research• Ensuring the proper kitting and staging procedures for in stock materials10.30 Networking Break11.00 Case StudyOvercoming General Strategic Scheduling Challenges within Outage Planning• Developing a long term outage management strategy with clear goals • Improving scheduling methodology through an improved process• Identifying links between separate tasks for efficient resource allocation• Analyzing practices for the ongoing leveling of resources• Understanding the time sequence associated with processing equipment Roger Schaver, Manager, Project/Outage ManagementWE Energies11.45Ensuring the Scope Creep and Control of the Outage Process areContained• Identifying methods of non-destructive testing for assets• Utilizing work identification systems to rapidly access progress• Highlighting effective methods of approving emergency work• Addressing the scope swing of resources• Adjusting priorities midstream and lessons learnedPeter Buote, VP Generation ServicesConstellation Energy12.30 Topical Luncheon Attaining and Maintaining a Quality Assurance Program Throughout an OutageYour opportunity to discuss and debate roadblocks to the implementation of a successful quality assurance program before and during an outage and evaluate ideas to achieve the optimal employee engagement. The topicalluncheon has been specifically created to ensure that all event participants havethe opportunity to share their problems and solutions to common professionalchallenges. Discuss emerging issues and share your thoughts about the currentmarket trends with us. Each table will nominate a representative whom will share the thoughts and findings with the rest of the group upon reunion in the conference room after lunchIMPLEMENTING THE FUNDAMENTALS FOR SUCCESSFUL OUTAGE EXECUTIONANALYZING INTEGRAL OPTIMIZATION PROCESSES AND PROCEDURESBooking Info: www.marcusevansbb.com/OMPP2009Day One | Monday, August 3, 2009Why You Must Attend:In a time of increased scheduling, budget pressures and a increasingly restrictedworkforce the marcus evans 8th Annual Outage Management for PowerPlants conference will provide you with a unique opportunity to improve the performance and efficiency of your scheduled outages. This premier industryevent will share key technological advances for increased efficiency; lessonslearned from leading energy practitioners and create a unique benchmarkingopportunity with other power plant professionals. Discussion from scope formulation to post outage analysis will give outage management professionalsinsight on how to improve overall project management skills, manage the increasing work load in an outage and discuss different maintenance strategies for key power plant assets. Underpinning the flow of case studies willbe discussion on the safety requirements and demands for skilled labour duringan outage. Additionally, key topical luncheons will further explore integralaspects of the outage optimization process and review the impact of externalforces on outage management process. Attend the marcus evans 8th AnnualOutage Management for Power Plants to discover industry best practices and key strategies to ensure successful outage completion.Business Opportunities:A limited amount of exhibition space is available at the conference.Sponsorship opportunities covering luncheon, evening functions, and documentationalso exist. For further details, please inquire to Marisse Downie atenergy@marcusevansbb.com or 246 417 5391.8.30 Registration8.50 Opening Remarks From Conference Chair9.00 Case StudyOvercoming the Challenge of Depleting Maintenance Resources• Identifying qualified manpower to satisfy the job at hand• Highlighting key motivators for the resource pool for comprehensive commitment during outages• Allocating adequate manpower for tasks identified• Creating innovative approaches to maximize available resource usage• Utilizing non in-house workers to fill the gap• Implementing strategies to ensure future labor availabilityPaul Lassance, Manager, Outage & Maintenance Alliant9.45 Interactive Boiler Workshop Ensuring the Dependability, Reliability and Overall Optimization of Boilers The breakdown of a boiler can cost a utility company thousands of dollars in equipment repairs or replacement, as well as in business income losses. A boiler failure interrupts service to a facility and the operations of the plant.Failures such as these in high peak season can result in a greater expense to thecompany that the cost of any repair or replacement of a boiler. Most boiler failures are as a result of malfunctioning parts due to age, poor maintenance, or corrosion. This highlights the need for properly functioning control devices as well as safety devices. But these measures are only effective and can only be guaranteed to perform when necessary if there is regular maintenance, testing and inspection of the boilers. This also ensures that boilers are operatingat optimal capacity without wastage of energy and increased operating costs.By Attending this workshop you will be:• Highlighting proper maintenance practices for boilers from erosions and corrosion• Ensuring proper boiler inspections and upgrading• Discussing the repair versus replace benefits with such a key asset• Managing boiler repairs and modifications• Comparing ultra super critical boilers versus super critical boilers• Understanding the impact of longer timeframes between shutdown • Detailing a comprehensive schedule for downtime between longer outagesJohn M. Cavote, Boiler Tube Failure Prevention ExpertUnited Dynamics Advance Technology CorporationJon S. Cavote, VPUnited Dynamics Advance Technology Corporation1.15 Topical Luncheon Anticipating and Overcoming the Unavoidable Forced OutageYour opportunity to discuss and debate elements that impact on forced outageswhich increase expenses and utilize manpower and evaluate ideas to achieveoptimal outage situations. The topical luncheon has been specifically created to ensure that all event participants have the opportunity to share their problemsand solutions to common professional challenges. Discuss emerging issues and share your thoughts about the current market trends with us. Each table will nominate a representative whom will share the thoughts and findings with the rest of the group upon reunion in the conference room after lunch2.15 Discussion of the Topical Luncheon3.00 Case StudyStaying on the Leading Edge of Outage Planning –40 Companies Weigh In. Are You Ready to Move Forward to the Next Step Change?• Discerning what were the 9 critical areas identified for success and how do you align the STARs? What were the absolute priorities? • Discussing if the corporate “pie in the sky” can become a reality• Analyzing if “step change” can really be accomplished• Examining a continuous improvement program put into actionRobert Seay, Manager, OutagesWorleyParsonsIDENTIFYING SUCCESSFUL PROCEDURES FOR TRIUMPHANT OUTAGE EXECUTIONEXAMINING INTEGRAL PROCEDURES TO DERIVE OPTIMAL ASSET RESULTS AND OUTAGE COMPLETIONDay Two | Tuesday, August 4, 2009 Booking Info: www.marcusevansbb.com/OMPP20093.45Examining Process Implementation to Improve Craft Labor ProductivityDuring Outages with Alabama Power• Working smarter not harder Schedule is paramount • Understanding the logistics and how important are they to you? • Seeking first to understand • Dealing with Manpower – Gaining buy-in from the crafts • Doing much more with less• Ensuring $$$$$$$ savings – All aboardRandy Mullinax, Planning Manager, Plant BarryAlabama Power4.30 Closing Comment and End of Day Two 8.30 Registration8.50 Opening Remarks From Conference Chair9.00 Case Study Determining Key Technological Advances which Reduce OutageAssociated Challenges• Examining scheduling tools within the market• Identifying software to track and manage assets and outage responsibilities• Creating a mobile network with outage software for mobile phones• Highlighting programs for innovative schedule managementTerry Maddox, Assistant Plant Manager, Morgantown PlantMirant Mid- Atlantic, LLC9.45 Case StudyExamining Findings from an International Comparison of OutageManagement Performance and Best Practices • Predicting future directions for outage planning and management dialogue in the international markets • Defining metrics for measuring the effectiveness of outage planning and management as discovered through the IGBC process • Understanding how international benchmarking can drive insights into outage planning and management practices that drive performance Douglas Dale, Senior AdvisorUMSInternational Generation Benchmarking Consortium10.30 Networking Break11.00 Case StudyFormalizing a Comprehensive Health and Safety Policy Within the Power Plant• Determining an intensive safety procedure plan with key compliance indicators• Ascertaining methods of ensuring safety during an outage• Developing an effective safety culture with thorough guidelines• Integrating contractors into the safety programKeith Drake, Safety/Health, Fire Protection, and Security Supervisor, John E. Amos Power PlantAppalachian Power11.30Examining Turnaround Planning and Execution Practices – ATCOPower's Best Practices Development and Application of ProjectManagement Institute (PMI) Methods.A. Ken Seal, Manager, Operations EngineeringATCO Power12.30 Closing Comments and end of the 8th Annual Outage Management for Power PlantsEVALUATING COMPLIMENTARY PROCESSES PERTINENT TO OUTAGE OPTIMIZATIONDay Three | Wednesday, August 5, 2009United Dynamics Corporation has a clear track record of effectively reducing EFOR yielding significant improvement of power availability for producers across the USA. Since 1979services provided by UDC have lead the industry in boiler inspection and educational training seminars. Our in-plant and public training seminars meet the demands for experience and expertise in education. Sponsor Acknowledgements Booking Info: www.marcusevansbb.com/OMPP2009Silver SponsorsIn the rapidly changing climate of today's power industry, Electricity Today magazine continues to be the publication of choice for North America's utility transmission and distribution sectors. Electricity Today, a CCAB audited publication, is published 9 times a year by The Electricity Forum (a division of the Hurst Communications Group, Inc.), the conference management and publishing company for North America's electric power and engineering industry. It is distributed free of charge to electric utility personnel and electrical consulting engineers across Canada and the United States, providing up-to date information and timely articles on topicsrelevant to today's electrical power industry. Please use the following link: www.electricity-today.com. Production contact is Alla Krutous: alla@electricityforum.com 905 686 1040 ex 226.Media PartnersEnergy Central, established in1996, is the leading resource connecting professionals in the global power industry to news, events, databases, insight and analysis. With six distinct websites, seven e-newsletters and both electronic and print publications, top energy executives, managers, leaders and industry influencers have relied on Energy Central to deliver the information they use every day. We also havethe most used jobs web site, EnergyCentralJobs.com, connecting job seekers and employers in the energy industry.EnergyBiz is a bimonthly business magazine for leaders in the new power industry. EnergyBiz reaches more than 20,000 of the most influential buyers, including man-agers, executives, legislators, regulators, lawyers and consultants who make buying decisions in utilities, government, advisory firms and supplier companies. EnergyBiztarget CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, CTOs, VPs and their direct reports – quality prospects available only through Energy Central.A large number of leading power companies rely on Synterprise Solutions to decrease Outage duration and cost through Outage Readiness Assessments, Labor Utilization Studies (Wrench Time Studies), Outage Coaching, Outage Staffing, and Engineering Services. Synterprise also provides Asset Information Management,EAM/CMMS implementations and work-process consulting world-wideSince 1973, has kept its readers at the forefront of major developments in the energy industry. The top daily publication among energy executives coversall aspects of the energy industry including electric utilities, nuclear power, natural gas, oil, coal and alternative fuels. For more information visit our websitewww.theenergydaily.com. More than 20,000 utility industry professionals across many career levels – including executive, senior and general management. Intelligent Utility targets professionals with decision-making responsibilities in the areas of engineering, operations, maintenance, IT, planning and analysis. Typical businesses includeinvestor owned utilities, public power and municipal providers, rural cooperative power suppliers, federal power agencies, independent power producers, non-uniform grids and utility holding companies.WorleyParsons is a leading provider of professional services to the power industry. Through our Improve services, we integrate the bestpractices, processes, tools and experience to successfully plan, implement, and execute outages beginning in early design thru start-up.Success is driven by reducing risks and total installed costs to our customer’s expectations.Day & Zimmermann NPS (DZNPS) is one of the nation's leading union labor contractors dedicated exclusively to performing full-service maintenance and modificationsat nuclear and fossil-fired power plants. Multi-site, system-wide partnerships focused on reducing the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) are a DZNPS specialty. In both2004 and 2005, the Engineering News Record (ENR) ranked DZNPS as the #1 Operations and Maintenance contractor in the U.S. Power industry. Our growth has beenaccomplished through operational excellence and an unwavering commitment to safety as our number-one value, along with our management focus on increasingproductivity and decreasing overall project costs. UMS Group, Inc. are management consultants specializing in utility enterprise value creation and performance transformation. UMS consultants are AssetManagement strategy, processes and solutions thought leaders. We serve our clients with a unique knowledge of best practices, a proprietary database of performance metrics and pragmatic process solutions and tools.Testimonials“I enjoyed the conference; the speakers and the content of presentation was very good and related useful to the work to do.” El Paso Electric Company“This marcus evans event provided extensive business information for power plants. Our firm will benefit immensely from the content. Absolutely EYE OPENING”WEB Aruba NV“This is an excellent event that allows the participants to share experience, benchmark and learn the best practices.” Operadora San Felipe“Very helpful and informative exchange in the planning of outage. One of the best conferences I have attended in the last 5 years”. 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