Four mistakes energy companies make in designing new plants

Charles Reith, vice president of consulting services, shares the four most common mistakes that energy companies make in building new facilities in a Solomon Associates news release.

According to Reith, these mistakes include:

1. Designing for throughput or capacity rather than overall performance.

2. Failing to include operations personnel in the project team.

3. Planning to run the new plant the same way you ran the old plant.

4. Cutting corners on training.

“These mistakes can make the difference between a plant that meets its ROI objectives and one that doesn’t,” Reith concluded. “And all of these pitfalls can be avoided by focusing on the small things that can make the most of a large capital investment.”

Solomon Associates offers Q1 Day 1 Consulting to energy companies that are in the process of building new plants to ensure that new facilities perform as intended and meet ROI objectives. Q1 Day 1 Consulting enables clients to ensure that their new facility design will achieve competitive performance targets and to integrate best practices into the design well in advance of construction.

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Since 1980, Solomon has provided benchmarking and performance improvement consulting services to the energy industry to help clients identify and close their performance gaps to realize the full margin potential of their assets. To do this, we rely on experienced and innovative industry-specific teams to apply their knowledge to evaluate and improve upon each operation we analyze.
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