AP-Networks

Outage Network

The world's most innovative software toolkit for shutdowns, turnarounds, and outages. The cloud-based platform is home to proprietary AP-Networks digital tools that have become a standard part of how Fortune Global 100 energy and petrochemical companies plan and execute events. The ever-evolving toolset places the unrivaled turnaround expertise of AP-Networks on the desktop of every shutdown, turnaround and outage professional across the enterprise.

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How We Help

  • Benefit from a world-class Outage management process deployed specifically for your outage to assign tasks and deliverables and track them
  • Track compliance to work processes and enable more consistent levels of planning and preparation
  • Ensure that best practices are being implemented in the definition and planning phases
  • Measure and view the readiness of every outage at any stage
  • Access world-class processes, at any time from any place, at a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions
  • Provide a platform for common understanding and learning
  • Achieve predictable outcomes with repeatable proven practices
  • Leverage knowledge and experience across many facilities
  • Facilitate the integration of newly-merged companies with common processes, tools, terms, and best-in-class systems to govern outages

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NaviTrack

Transform Your Work Process

Employed by hundreds of global-scale enterprises, NaviTrack is the industry-standard work process deployment system. NaviTrack transforms your capital project or STO work process into an interactive and transparent tool. This allows team members to collaborate and consistently use the work process as well as a plethora of best practices. NaviTrack is the first tool of its kind, featuring a gated work process that dynamically adjusts for the complexity and unique requirements of each capital project and STO event.

NaviTrack brings tried and tested best practices to the desktop of every project or turnaround professional in the enterprise. Through the use of job aids, reports, and activity-based assignments, NaviTrack creates value early by focusing team and stakeholder attention on best practices in pursuit of optimum readiness, leading to flawless execution.

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Industry Refined, Industry Proven

As the global leader in helping project and STO teams achieve industry-leading performance, our innovative cloud-based tools reflect our cumulative knowledge of the elements that drive successful event outcomes.

Here's how NaviTrack benefits your organization:

  • Predictable, Competitive Outcomes NaviTrack enables the implementation and adoption of standardized work processes across your organization, which drives the achievement of predictable, competitive outcomes on your capital projects and STOs.
  • Improved Accountability NaviTrack's real-time project and activity status reporting gives leadership and your entire team greater visibility into project status and enables greater accountability with formalized activity ownership and individual team member progress.
  • Industry-Leading Practices On implementation, your organization's work processes are reviewed to ensure they reflect the lastest known best practices that drive project and STO success among industry's top quartile performers.
  • Unrivaled Benchmarking NaviTrack allows you to leverage the knowledge and experience from the most extensive collection of project and STO industry benchmarking data in the world, letting you know how your processes (as well as planned and actual performance outcomes) compare to industry's top quartile performers.

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LLERN

Leveraging Lessons Learned

AP-Networks, we know that achieving repeatable, top-quartile project and turnaround performance requires disciplined and consistent identification of opportunities for improvement in definition and execution. Once lessons learned and their root causes are identified, improvements must be made actionable with follow-through and tracking. Project and turnaround teams must develop action plans and manage the specific tasks required to implement and sustain improvements. AP-Networks is excited to offer LLERN the only lessons learned management system in the industry software designed to ensure full realization of improvement opportunities across your entire organization.

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Achieve True Step-Change Improvements In Your Turnaround and Projects Programs

As the global leader in helping project and STO teams achieve industry-leading performance, our innovative cloud-based tools reflect our cumulative knowledge of the elements that drive successful event outcomes.

The operating environment for heavy industry refineries, mining operations, petrochemical plants, and more has changed dramatically, presenting new challenges for achieving turnaround and project cost efficiency and optimized execution. Using dynamic registers, LLERN enables your team and entire site to actualize improvements by identifying and tracking lessons learned items and assigning their resolution to individuals across the organization. Leaders can transfer information directly from the PYXIS risk management system into LLERN for improvement and implementation. LLern will let your team and site drive continuous improvement like never before, fully integrating prioritized actions with NaviTrack, PYXIS, and acXis to the individual user level. This comprehensive approach to capital project and turnaround management drives individual ownership and reporting in real-time.

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PYXIS

Elevating Risk Management

Effective risk management is essential to event success. There's no shortage of tools that help you manage risk, but none have the power of PYXIS.

PYXIS is a risk management system that draws on the unrivaled data and innovation of AP-Networks. In PYXIS, you can Import risks from past events and other sites, as well as pre-populate a register with known Industry risks taken from AP-Networks' comprehensive industry performance database. You can also track mitigation and contingency action plans and the subsequent reduction in risk severity with the innovative Risk Severity Index.

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Flexible, Customizable, Powerful

PYXIS is the foundation of a successful risk management process. This tool reduces manual effort by automatically populating with historical and known industry risks. With only a few clicks, you can:

  • Load the risk register with known items from other events
  • Duplicate the risk register from another event at your company
  • Pre-populate the risk register with common Industry risks from the AP-Networks Project and Turnaround Databases
  • Access the one-of-a-kind Risk Severity Index

PYXIS offers rapid setup so you can get to work faster. First, evaluate risk items along three dimensions probability, impact and manageability so that your organization focuses effort where it's most effective and most needed. Next, manage and mitigate risks with an easy-to-learn action tracking system customizable to your organization's risk evaluation standards, down to the colors and dimensions of the probability-impact grid. Digitally assign owners, track progress, and quantify the probability and impact of your risks in one place.

AP-Networks provides the cloud-based tools you trust for work process deployment and successful event planning. PYXIS adds dependable, proactive risk management to your arsenal.
PYXIS is an optional module that can be licensed as an add-on to any of our platforms.

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acXis

Integrate Your Action Item Tracking To Ensure Success

Teams are less effective and less efficient when individual follow-up action items are tracked randomly, with no way to assess overall progress. No matter how comprehensive your work process is, tasks outside of process milestones and activities are also integral to event success. That's why we developed acXis.

acXis is an innovative action register that brings all of your project definition and event preparation activities together in the AP-Networks suite of tools. Bring your team together to create an interactive action register inside the same cloud-based digital platform you're already using to deploy NaviTrack and the rest of the AP-Networks suite of tools. View actions from your last meeting alongside event actions from the NaviTrack work process, the PYXIS risk register, the LLERN lessons learned register, free form action items generated during meeting discussions, and more. With a clear view of everything that needs to get done, your team can collaboratively complete tasks and share information.

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Seamless Integration, Maximum Efficiency

acXis consolidates all action items into one centralized platform, eliminating the need to track tasks across multiple spreadsheets or systems. Teams gain real-time visibility into progress and can collaborate more effectively.

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Readiness Pyramid

Identify Gaps And Build Alignment For Outage Readiness

The Readiness Pyramid is a self-assessment tool that enables turnaround teams to measure the readiness of their turnaround relative to industry best practices. Using the familiar concept of green, yellow, and red traffic lights, the Readiness Pyramid provides a clear, comprehensive overview of your turnaround s readiness and effectively measures team alignment across all key functional areas. It is designed to guide your team through proven best practices for planning and developing turnarounds and to help you anticipate challenges before they become expensive turnaround delays.

One of the key outputs of the Readiness Pyramid is the Outage Readiness Index (ORI) Score. This score serves as a quantifiable measure of readiness, and it is generated by measuring the planning status across 21 component areas of outage preparation. The degree of agreement of the team members and the planning status are both components of the ORI Score. AP-Networks has quantifiably found that cost and schedule overrun decrease as the ORI Score increases, and turnaround outcomes become more competitive and more predictable.

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