July 28, 2008—General Physics Corporation (GP), the operating subsidiary of GP Strategies Corporation has launched OUTAGE! The Planning and Scheduling Experience, an experiential learning workshop that powerfully reinforces planning and scheduling concepts and best practices.
This eight-hour simulation is designed to improve planning and scheduling for outages and shutdowns across a wide variety of industries, says the company. The game experience replicates a real maintenance outage, complete with typical problems of parts, personnel constraints, quality control problems, contractor issues, scheduling dilemmas, work orders, safety issues, work identified late, risk assessment and more. Thousands of staff hours can be saved by eliminating non-valued-added activities, all from one eight-hour simulation. The simulation is designed for companies in capital-intensive industries such as energy, petrochemical, steel, automotive, pharmaceutical and other heavy industries.
GP’s launch includes a public webinar on planning and scheduling best practices: 2:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday, July 30, 2008. Go online to register. For more information, see the Web site.
