Notes from the floor.
Practical perspectives on reliability and operations — written for the people who actually run plants.
Real turnarounds, by the numbers
A protein plant saved from liquidation and sold — batch failures down 96%, waste 59%, throughput up 50% (~$1.74M/year) — and another that lifted throughput 62.5% with no capital. Results drawn straight from the plants' own data.
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