Control of Work – a Major Challenge in both Capital Projects and Continuous Operations

January 14, 2020

By David Drerup. Shutdowns, Turnarounds, and Outages (STOs) continue to be a major budget and time challenge. A significant contributing factor to..

Why Engineering Content Management is the lifeblood of an Intelligent Operations Framework

November 14, 2019

By David Drerup. In our previous articles, we’ve shared why Operational Risk Management (ORM) can be the Achilles heel in your organization, and why ..

Is Risk Management your Achilles’ Heel? How Intelligent Operations helps keep you moving forward

October 23, 2019

By David Drerup. In our previous article, we shared why Enterprise Loss Management is the connective tissue for Intelligent Operations. Risk..

Why Enterprise Loss Prevention (ELP) is a core element of the Intelligent Operations Framework

October 10, 2019

By David Drerup. In our previous post, I shared why MOC corresponds to the skeletal system for Intelligent Operations. If MOC is the skeleton, ELP is..

Why MOC is part of the core fabric for Intelligent Operations

September 20, 2019

By David Drerup. One of the core framework components of Intelligent Operations is Management of Change (MOC). MOC is rather like a skeletal system..

ERM vs. ORM – What is the difference ? (Part 4)

August 19, 2019

In Part 1 of the series on ERM vs. ORM, we discussed the difference between Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and Operational Risk Management (ORM)...

ERM vs. ORM – What is the difference? (Part 3)

July 17, 2019

In Part 1 of the series on ERM vs. ORM, we discussed the difference between Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and Operational Risk Management (ORM)...

ERM vs. ORM – What is the difference? (Part 2)

June 5, 2019

In Part 1 of the series on ERM vs. ORM, we discussed the difference between Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and Operational Risk Management (ORM)...

Using a Risk Registry to Properly Manage Operational Risk

March 6, 2019

Process Safety Management (PSM) provides a framework for effectively managing operational risk. The framework includes the obvious catastrophic..

ERM vs. ORM – What is the difference? (Part 1)

February 5, 2019

This is the first in our series of posts on ERM and ORM: What is the difference and why does it matter? Most importantly in this series, we'll..

Effective Operational Risk Management – The Plant Manager's Perspective

October 31, 2014

This article by LNS Research discusses the four things Plant Managers need to know about operational risk management. More importantly, the article..

TLAs and Communication Challenges in Risk Management

June 25, 2014

Three-Letter Acronyms (TLAs) are a mainstay of both manufacturing and technology. Sure, it's verbally more efficient to use TLAs than say or write..