Developing Best Practices for Operator Effectiveness in the Age of Collaboration

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ARC Report Abstract

Multiple converging trends make operator effectiveness even more important today than ever before. These include:

  • Loss of expertise in industrial plants and the transition to a new workforce
  • Business imperatives to "do more with less"
  • Increasing regulatory compliance pressures
  • New information technology (IT)-based enabling technologies moving into the operational technology (OT) space.

 

Today's plant operators must collaborate effectively not just with other operators and operations supervisors within their own plants; but with plant maintenance staffs, engineering, and IT groups; and business planners and often with supply chain professionals at the corporate level.

These converging trends and the associated business imperatives make it critical for owner-operators across a broad range of industrial sectors to identify best practices for operator effectiveness and collaboration to support their benchmarking, knowledge transfer, new employee onboarding, and continuous performance improvement initiatives.

The ultimate goal, of course, is to achieve the ever-elusive operational excellence (OpX) that ARC Advisory Group and many other industry observers have been writing about over the years.

To help identify current best practices, ARC Advisory Group has launched a confidential web survey on this topic. 

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Keywords: Operator Effectiveness, Collaboration, Best Practices, Workforce Issues, Operational Excellence, ARC Advisory Group.

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