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• Acheiving Operational Excelence in Gas Plants (pdf, 256 kb)




• Operations Advisory Systems: A Safety Perspective (pdf, 391 kb)

  An OAS is an essential element for plants to operate safely, profitably and efficiently, which this article details. November 2004

   

• Gas Plants: Operational Excellence or Failure? (pdf, 146 kb)

  This paper presents the benefits of instituting an operational excellence program in gas plants.

  October 2004

   

• Excellence in Operations (pdf, 315 kb)

  A discussion about the importance of real-time operations data and their effect on reliability programs.April 2004

   

• What about Operations? (pdf, 201 kb)

  Jack Stout, President of Nexus Solutions, explains the importance of reliability and operations management to the environment, health and safety and productivity. October 2003

   

• Reliability and Operations Management Applications (pdf, 59 kb)

  As a result of a Nexus Oz deployment at BP Chemicals in Greenlake, TX, this document details a successful project as outlined by both Nexus Engineering and BP management.  October 2002

   

• Refining Reliability (pdf, 749 kb)

  This paper discusses reliability and operations management in hydrocarbon processing plants. June 2002

   

• Knowledge Management to Improve Performance (pdf, 47 kb)

  Preserving the operating expertise acquired over the years by a plant’s operators, technicians and managers after they have moved on is the subject of this article, which describes a reliability and operations management system. Summer 2002