The digitization of Plant Shift Log Book. Why it is time to upgrade your old shift logbook ?

1. I read somewhere “60 % of the accidents happen within  1Hrs of the shift change”
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2. What is a Shift ?
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3. Why it is one of the most critical periods of time in any process plant?
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4. How can the oncoming person learn about maintenance routines, equipment
issues, procedures, upcoming audits and what are the current product targets?
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5. Shift is an employment practice designed to make use of, or
provide service across, all 24 hours of the clock each day of
the week.
The practice typically sees the day divided into "shifts", set
periods of time during which different groups of workers
take up their posts.
The term "shift " includes both long-term night shifts and
work schedules in which employees change or rotate shifts.
What is a Shift ?
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6. Why it is one of the most critical periods of time in any process plant?
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7. How can the oncoming person learn about maintenance routines, equipment
issues, procedures, upcoming audits and what are the current product targets?
Well! The answer is by using “SHIFT LOG BOOK”
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8. On everyday basis any plants operation generates a large amount of events and alarms that
need to be attended by plant resources.
Before and after they actually attend those complaints they need to document the whole
activity carried out by them (in a physical, tangible note book) – in their shift.
SHIFT LOG BOOK
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9. Besides the alarms and events there are various routine inspection jobs which needs to be
reminded or done on a regular basis – shift log book is an answer.
Carry forward tasks or unfinished tasks of a shift needs to be informed to the next shift
resources – shift log book is an answer.
SHIFT LOG BOOK
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10. SHIFT LOG BOOK – Problems with the current shift log book
A typical logbook from one of the thermal
plants in India.
It is very difficult to search for the actions
taken on an any event or alarm prior than
2-3 weeks.
The problem is he needs lot of time to
scan through all the pages back, manually.
Moreover there is no workflow in this
kind of manually maintained log book.
This kind of log book does not suggest or
provide any analysis which could lead to
process optimization.
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11. Operations management or the electronic version of this shift log book – the modern way of
managing shifts with various advantages.
SHIFT LOG BOOK – Operations Management, Shift log book, electronic notes etc…
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12. SHIFT LOG BOOK – The modern day electronic shift log book
Allows auto shift event creation.
Manual recording of shift events and related stuff.
Retrieving historical events and corresponding documentation is just one filter search.
Proper workflow mechanism in order to ensure correct assignment to correct resource with
correct qualifications.
Formally documented shift handover mechanism.
Shift performance or shift turnover measurement via KPI (Key performance indicators).
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13. SHIFT LOG BOOK – Planning to upgrade you old shift log book
Invensys, Operations Management
ABB, Shift Log Book
Honeywell, Operations Logbook
CSoft Technologies, Electronic Shift Notes (c-Notes)
IBM, Maximo Asset Management
If looking for solution providers, then look below
SIEMENS, Operations Management
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14. Thank you
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15. References
http://www.abb.com/industries/db0003db004332/c12573e700330587c1257356003084b6.aspx
http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/en/maximoassetmanagement
http://www.csofttechnologies.com/Products/ElectronicShiftNotescNotes.aspx
Wikipedia
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