Part of the mix of truly excellent companies is the attention paid to their people as an important class of company assets. ARC has recommended that manufacturers look for ways to turn their people ...

Technology progression within advanced process control (APC) continues to evolve; however, it is the relationship among core APC developments, enabling technologies, and management practices that is ...

Operates and monitors refinery process units (e.g., crude/vacuum, hydrotreating, reforming, FCC, alkylation, isomerization, utilities, tank farm) to meet production ...

1.1 Typical schedules (e.g., rotating 12-hour shifts) add 10%–30% overtime plus shift differentials ($1.50–$3.00/hr). 1.2 Rough annualization: \( \text{Annual Base} = \text{Hourly} \times 2{,}080 \).

Elements of operator performance are complicated, so look to standards and best practices to guide improvements. Operator Performance (OP) is a large topic and can be a very difficult subject to ...