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Credit to Author: Livia Wiley| Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 06:03:44 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n

Operational Excellence is one of those terms that has numerous definitions and just as many overuses. It can mean everything from operator training and knowledge retention to process automation and optimization to enterprise decision support and mobile-enabled augmented reality. Why can\u2019t it be all four? To eliminate any one would achieve some level of operational excellence but not the optimum.<\/p>\n

Why is Operational Excellence important to you?<\/h4>\n

One word: Profitability<\/strong>. Right time information drives, and accelerates, profitability. Executing a comprehensive Operational Excellence strategy will not only provide immediate savings today but will help drive excellence well into the future.<\/p>\n

Operational Excellence involves assets, processes, and people<\/strong><\/p>\n

In refineries and chemical plants, Operational Excellence is the attainment of efficient, reliable and agile operations to achieve optimal profitability for the assets, processes, and people.<\/p>\n

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Operational Excellence is a continuous process<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is also important to understand that Operational Excellence isn\u2019t achieved overnight. It is a methodology that takes a commitment to focusing on continually improving the process, and its operators, over the long term. You can expect these key benefits:<\/p>\n