Typical Operational Excellence Elements

Applied Operational Excellence for the Oil, Gas, and Process Industries. http //dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978 0 12 802788 2.00006-3 Copyright 2015 Elsevier Inc, All rights reserved, 

An enterprise-wide OEMS enables a company to do on an operational basis what well-known enterprise resource planning systems enable it to do on a financial basis. It affords a clear line of sight into corporate activities, from the individual operator level up to the enterprise level. Unlike financial information systems, which track what employees, facilities, and departments are earning or spending, the operational information system tracks what they are actually doing and measures how they do it. 

OEMS are frameworks developed to support the policies and procedures outlined in the OE strategy of the company. These systems nnderpin that strategy and provide a way to systematically maintain corporate policies and procedures. 

So what can companies do with such a system If a process at a plant in France experiences a failure, the lessons and solutions that emerge from that experience can be qnickly deployed to every other similar process the company operates, anywhere in the world. Any new learning, anywhere, can be quickly communicated across the entire company. This type of learning prevents the same unexpected downtime experienced by one facility of the enterprise from recurring in another facility and helps assure with greater certainty that assets will perform as expected. 

While this is important, perhaps more so is the way the information conveyed in the OEMS helps to quantify leadership and shape the corporate culture. Managers can measure how, and how quickly, staff deals with a problem. For example, it will help a responsible manager establish how quickly a shift superintendent finds out about an incident or near miss with a potentially high impact how long it takes to close out all the action items involved in addressing the root causes of the problem. With such information, companies can speed response rates as well as identily and reward employees who respond quickly to high-impact incidents. 

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Operational excellence (OE) and PSM are closely related. PSM elements typically coincide with the enabling elements selected for inclusion in the OE framework for organizations operating with the oil, gas, and petrochemical industries. Foremost among them are culture, procedures (aU types) training, competency, and management review. One of the most fundamental requirements for an effective OEMS is... 

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