Every maintenance professional recognizes the scene: alarms blaring, papers flying, schedules unraveling, and everyone suddenly “discovering” they’re in Phase Panic. The cartoon nails this moment, the point where months of deferred planning implode into frantic improvisation. In reliability terms, that’s not just bad luck, it’s a planning failure. Shutdowns, turnarounds, and outages (STOs) are among […] The post Shutdown Turnaround Outage Planning Mistakes That Trigger Chaos appea...
