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Situational · Resource Constraint

You're managing a plant turnaround with a fixed 28-day window. Inspection has found unexpected wall thinning on a set of exchanger bundles that weren't in scope. Repairing them adds five days and significant cost, and the next turnaround is four years out. Commercial is already asking about the overrun. What do you recommend?

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This is an integrity decision first and a schedule decision second, so I’d start with a fitness-for-service assessment: measured remaining wall against minimum required thickness,…

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