Dear Vanessa,
This is complicated, JMS being done by operation team they also call planner, for scheduling they call Planner Scheduler. If u ask why? the answer....I dont know

Whatever is the trend at various places with different owners, the schedule prepared by the owner themselves would depict more details than others, reasons :-

1. They know their equipment better than the EPC contractor unless it is a long term contract for carrying out a number of shutdwons for a specified period, say 5 yrs.
2. Generally, EPC contractor has very little time to preapre the schedule between time of award and start of execution.
3. Data from the previous shutdown of similar nature is readily available with any professional owners.
4. Details of shutdown activiites like inspection scope or operation’s scope can be well discussed by the planner in the owner comapny internally with his collegues in Inspection or operations.

Well the EPC contractor will be more versed in the resouce loading in these schedule as they are conversatn with requirements than the owners. Prima facie they need to agree to the owners schedule and built up the resourse loading and SCurves and stuff.

Well A joint effort is required between EPC and owner
or
EPC contractor to have ample time to study and built up innumerous activities per equipment, shifting of crew from one equipment to toher, priority of release of equip, priority of operations/inspections, etc and built upm their schedule for owners approval.

Subcontractor needs to comply with the schedule and hence needs to agree before hand the schedule and resource deployment based on target.

But Shutdowns resource loading is difficult esp on amount of repairs that could be asessed only after opening the equipment. So one needs to keep enough cushion.

Hi Charles,
this is my past experience, its total diffrent here, the consultant will prepare every schedule(include interface schedule) for turnaround, base on trade like rotating, static, intrument etc. After that the schedule to be distribute to contractors base on trade. The contrator have to follow what ever schedule being given and have to update the progress every day and orperation team will check the progress every night and update to main schedule(level 1) for progrss meeting and presentation early morning before shift change.
The activities is around 35000, its seems like not worth cause preparation about 6 month, Turaround only 30days.
cheers... turaround planner