Upcoming Events

The Utilities Services Alliance (USA) is pleased to offer this Excellence In Outage Management Seminar.  Industry outage experts will offer strategies and tips over five days that take you through the steps of managing an outage, from scoping to execution.  You will be given tools and methods for effectively organizing all phases of outage activities leading to a safe, on schedule and on budget outage.

Dates / Locations:
May 14 - 18, 2012; Utilities Service Alliance - 9200 Indian Creek Parkway, Suite 201, Overland Park, KS 66210 

December 3 - 7, 2012; STARs - 1626 North Litchfield, Suite 230, Goodyear, AZ 85395

• Seminar Topics:
  • Outage organization and communication
  • Baseline schedule development
  • Milestones
  • Scope identification and control
  • Rev A - basic scheduling
  • Planning phase
  • Outage meetings
  • Work package preparation and PIs
  • Readiness reviews
  • Horizontal scheduling reviews
  • Scheduling phase and reviews
  • Long range planning
  • Monitoring scheduling phase
  • Vertical schedule reviews and Rev. C
  • Readiness review phase milestones
  • Final readiness determination
  • Shutdown safety
  • Rev 0 schedule
  • Outage control center
  • Schedule management during the outage
  • Key meetings
  • Discovery issues
  • Outage shutdown safety
  • Outage transition
  • Outage critiques
  • Post outage report
  • Improvement plans for outages