This practical "how to" manual is written for all persons involved in scheduled major mechanical outages of commercial facilities, manufacturing plants or major industrial process systems.

The manual discusses plant shutdown frequency planning; milestone and task/activity scheduling; selection and responsibilities of the turnaround manager and turnaround team.

It provides details on the five phases of a plant turnaround; the master work list and work package development; and setting the formal work list cut off date.

Necessary support systems for work scope execution are discussed along with a comprehensive contractor managment plan.

A special section is included on manpower efficiency and costly transition points with their affect on work progress momentum.

This manual is a must for every plant and maintenance engineering resource library.