Many participants experience significant personnel turnover associated with the analysis of study results. Solomon now offers a seminar that covers the basic methodology, types of study data, and hands-on exercises of how the data can be used. This seminar can accelerate the understanding and use of study results within an organization.

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Your benchmarking data can seem vast and overwhelming. However this data can point you in the direction of optimizing performance—but only if you know where to look and how to use it.

The How to Use the Data Seminar teaches you the foundation of how to find your way around your standard refinery study results to quickly and easily locate the information you need. With this training, you will be able to rapidly find the information to the questions your managers have, know how to compare your refinery to other peer groups within your data set, and build your own custom reports, as well as learn how to really dig into your key performance indicators (KPIs) to know where to find trend information for particular groups.

Who Should Attend?
This seminar is geared toward planning, optimization, and reliability managers; data coordinators; and other professionals who want to learn how to get the most value from their benchmarking analysis.

What Will I Learn?
Following are a few of the many things you will learn:
• The basics in Solomon analytics, including an understanding of the difference between metrics including EDC™, Energy Intensity Index (EII®), Volumetric Expansion Index (VEI™), and CEI, and which are most important.
• What exactly is in your Solomon data files and how it is organized.
• How you can use the data to answer specific questions like “where can I find the average for the second quartile in energy?”
• How to create custom reporting by understanding where to find the data that answers the questions you and your managers have.
• How to explain the Solomon gaps and their application to your managers.

Two Seminar Formats – Public and Private
During this 2-day interactive seminar, we send you on a treasure hunt to find the data nuggets that provide insight to your team for planning and optimization. Our goal is to utilize hands-on training to take you through “Solomon Data Mapping 101,” regardless of whether you attend one of our generic, multi-company regional seminars or a private seminar at your facility where we customize the lessons using your company’s own data.
• Public Seminars – Learn how to manipulate the data to select appropriate peer groups, easily find nuggets of insightful information in the data
 Data – Uses generic data from the output files
 Questions – Example questions used for training
 Travel – You travel to a convenient, regional location
 Cost – US $2,200 per person
• Private Seminars – Learn how to manipulate the data to compare yourself to other peer groups, easily find nuggets of insightful information in the data
 Data – Examines your company’s own, proprietary data
 Questions – Specific questions customized to your company
 Travel – We come to you, on-site at your facility
 Cost – US $13,000 for the base fee plus US $ 300 per person, plus travel expenses

The Result
At the end of the day, the How to Use the Data Seminar will help you make better use of your investment in the Fuels Study by knowing the best place to look for opportunities and where to find the data to validate decisions.

The Agenda
• Day One
 Confidentiality Limits
 Definition of Key Solomon Metrics
 Power of a Large Data Set
 Peer Group Concept
 Top 10 Refinery Manager Excuses for Not Using the Data
 Guided Tour of the 10 Data Files
 Study Changes
 Gross Margin Analysis
 How Benchmarking Fits into an Overall Performance Improvement Process
• Day Two
 Data Analysis Benchmarks
 Types of Analysis
 Efficiency/Effectiveness Concept
 Hands-On Exercises
 Case Studies
 Gross Margin
 Personnel
 Energy
 Reliability & Maintenance
 Open Forum Q&A