Shutdown-window planning

A date on a wall calendar is not a plan. This engagement is for plants that already know they will stop — a holiday window, a grid constraint, a customer shutdown — and need the hours inside that window ordered against what the records and the stores cage will actually allow.

Who it is for

A planner who has been given seventy-two hours and a list longer than seventy-two hours, or a stores lead who has been told “order everything” with six-week bearings and a three-day stop.

What we prepare

A sequenced order of work for the agreed window, with jobs that cannot fit marked as deferred and named. A list of spares whose lead times already miss the window, so the argument happens before the stop, not at 2 a.m. A simple visual of parallel jobs that share a crane, a permit, or the same millwright.

What we do not promise

We do not run the outage. We do not add hours to the window. If the records show a machine that will not last until the printed date, we say so; moving the date is your decision with operations.

How the sessions run

We need the intended stop dates, the stores list with promised arrival dates, and a failure history — yours, or one we already rebuilt. Two to four half-day sessions is usual. The written order of work arrives within a week of the last session.