Metallurgical Plant Start-Up and Commissioning

Performance Associates' on-site start-up coordinator provides the link between your operation's personnel and the construction contractor's personnel during the critical preoperational testing phase. The key to Performance Associates' approach is a PC database which tracks the entire start-up program. Literally thousands of transactions must be tracked and retrieved as necessary during preoperational testing. Diverse activities such as pipe flushing, motor grounding and bumping, and loop testing all must be tracked, any discrepancies noted, and corrective work scheduled. Reports must be generated by the system indicating the status of the entire preoperational testing program. Performance Associates' start-up specialists are experienced managers having extensive experience with metallurgical plant operations and maintenance. Our PC based start-up database application includes the following functions:

1. Pipe tracking by P&ID, package number, and area, including connections, flushing, pressure test, specification check, and support check.
2. Equipment tracking by P&ID, package number, and area, including cleaning, drive alignment, drive belts, guards, interlocks check, lubrication complete, mounting, packing or seals installed, pressure test, rotation check, and specifications check as applicable.
3. Motor tracking by area and equipment, including megger test, raceway check, motor setting, conduit check, power wiring terminations, control wiring complete, logic check, overloads installed, bump and run, and data sheet complete.
4. Instruments by P&ID, package number, and area, including calibration, piping check, installation check, wiring complete, and loop test.
5. Punch list tracking by area and equipment or pipe number, including date logged, description, date scheduled for correction, who is responsible, and date corrected.
6. Notes to allow tracking of critical issues by equipment number or piping.