Operational excellence management system

How Do Major Oil/Gas/Petrochemical Companies Describe the Basis for Their Operational Excellence Management Systems ... 

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There are many references that influence the structure and organization of commonly applied management system frameworks today. Depending on the industry segment and locale(s) an organization chooses to operate in, the development of an organization s own respective operational excellence management system (OEMS) may be influenced by one or more of them. Some of these will include ... 

Since Excel is a powerful tool used widely for many different purposes with many options not all options can be discussed in this chapter. The focus of the chapter is on manually self-created spreadsheets for data calculation and checks against acceptance criteria (logical operations). Excel spreadsheets that are used with other electronic systems for automatic data or information entry, for further operations, or used as a view tool for databases are not within the scope of this chapter. Nevertheless, these types of spreadsheets are viewed as a normal spreadsheet with automatic entry, and validation, including validation of the interface, will be included to cover this item. In this chapter we provide guidance in validation and revalidation of Excel spreadsheets and information about managing validated spreadsheets. 

A deficiency in a procedure management system may not always be apparent. Periodic evaluation of the system, including the written procedures, will help to identify and correct deficiencies. Part of this evaluation should be the verification that the procedures reflect actual, approved plant practices. Procedure users are an excell t system evaluation resource. If your procedures are used frequently, the users will recognize when they no longer reflect current operations or if they begin to stray from the development guidelines. 

Their report showed that 42 per cent of PSA vendors had disappeared in the last 5 years but most of the solutions had been adopted by new vendors. Our critical observation on PSA solutions is that they are useful data management systems but the effectiveness in achieving operational excellence in projects depends on how their outputs are used for project performance improvement. The demise of 42 per cent vendors in 5 years indicates a moderate success rate of PSA solutions. 

Organizations fully engaged in the Operational Excellence journey tend to be extremely well run operations and have established management systems with effective processes, programs, procedures, and internal standards to address issues that pose such risks as presented above. Through the application of risk management principles and sound operational discipline practices, they are often able to avoid many such pitfalls. 

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