Optimizing shutdown intervals yields significant savings
SABIC Innovative Plastic’s management realised that their shutdown strategy was incurring high costs and downtime losses, and subsequent system instabilities which was compounded by an increasingly competitive market.
Remote working proves intensive but extraordinarily successful as workshops are forced to abandon.
Challenged to find further efficiencies in the capital programme for end-of-life asset replacements, with a deadline set within less than 2 months, to identify these
efficiencies, this was ambitious planning.