While process engineers help in engineering the changes, and the maintenance comes in to execute, and in all this how can operations engineers improve management of change (MOC) effectiveness at field level?

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Important part here is to identify why there are gaps in PSi package, this itself pose a threat.
I mean if the available documents including P&IDs, PFDs, MSDS, mechanical drawings, F&G layouts and I am not sure where exactly the gaps are, may not be available to all users in their updated form, this ...

What are the operations best practices to distinguish between instrumentation issues and actual process instability during live troubleshooting?

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The challenge is that there are a lot many sources through which critical recommendations are generated. Start with Inspection /integrity itself working to identify issues with the assets. Yes, they issue their recommendations but not every recommendation is applied in time. Delays may not cause ...

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Alright so just to have correct analysis and learning in place from LOPCs, following is recommended as I discussed with Operations, Maintenance and my HSE colleagues:
1. Source identification
2. Repetition case identification
3. Case to case investigation
4. Determination of quantity ...

What should be the protocol of checking in the recommendations being followed, and implemented rightly?
And that has to be target date driven with some sort of internal or external checks.

Paper procedures (if you are still maintaining) are dying already. Modern plants use Tablets / mobile apps or Workflow-based execution systems.
Examples are IBM Maximo & SAP Plant Maintenance.
It matters as it forces step completion before moving forward and captures real-time data (pressure, temp ...

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