Issue

This Key Decision Document (KDD) serves as a comprehensive guide outlining the decisions, considerations, and recommendations essential for the implementation and management of maintenance processes at Syensqo. The document aims to clarify the rationale behind evaluating whether to process maintenance orders using a phase-based approach, determined by predefined order types (Reactive Maintenance and Proactive Maintenance), versus Standard Maintenance Processing across Syensqo plants.

Key areas covered in this document include:

• Benefits and drawbacks of each solution, including factors such as efficiency, accuracy, safety, and compliance.
• Overview & Background
• Design Options 
• Evaluation
• Recommendation
• Business & Project Impacts

The purpose and structure of the KDD ensure clarity, transparency, and accountability throughout the process of adopting and utilizing the chosen maintenance approach within Syensqo.

Recommendation

Background & Context

Syensqo operates and maintains a diverse number of plants globally, each with different sizes and complexity levels. Maintenance teams are tasked with a wide range of activities to ensure the smooth operation of these plants. The goal is to achieve standardization and simplification across its maintenance processes, enhancing efficiency, reducing downtime, and improving overall operational performance.

The current maintenance system faces challenges in meeting the dynamic and varied needs of different plants, ranging from large, complex operations with extensive maintenance requirements to smaller sites with more straightforward needs. The maintenance activities cover a broad spectrum, including corrective, preventative, emergency, predictive, refurbishment, shutdown, and projects, each with unique demands and complexities.

The organization’s strategic objectives include:

• Standardization: Creating uniform maintenance processes across all plants to ensure consistency, improve compliance, and facilitate easier management and reporting.
• Simplification: Streamlining maintenance operations to reduce complexity, enhance usability, and improve efficiency.
• Efficiency: Optimizing maintenance activities to minimize downtime, reduce costs, and improve asset reliability and performance.
• Flexibility: Ensuring the maintenance process can adapt to the varied needs of different plants and types of maintenance activities.

Assumptions

Constraints

Impacts

Business Rules

Options considered

Option A: 

Option B: 

Option C: 

Option D: 

Evaluation

	Option A	Option B	Option C	Option D
Criterion 1	Pro Con	Pro Pro	Pro Con	Pro Con
Criterion 2	Pro Con	Con	Pro Pro	Con Con
Criterion 3	Pro	Con	Con	Pro

See also

Change log

Workflow history