Why does every turnaround start from scratch?
Turnarounds are cyclical. The same units, largely the same equipment, on a mostly predictable schedule. So why does planning start over every cycle?
Turnarounds are cyclical. The same units, largely the same equipment, on a mostly predictable schedule.
So why does planning start over every cycle?
Not because the work is different. Because the planning knowledge was never captured in a system the refinery owns. It lived in the contractor's tools, in the contractor's format — and it walked out the gate with them.
That is not a knock on contractors. They have built their model around owning that history because nobody ever gave them a better place to put it.
We did something different: we brought them inside
On EZTRAK, contractors do their actual work in the owner's system — estimates and manpower, cost and headcount, material status, field updates.
- One format instead of quotes pasted into emails
- Self-serve material instead of crews hunting the warehouse
- Scope changes approved before work starts instead of clawback fights weeks later
And when the contractors demobilize, the data stays.
Quotes in every format. Cost teams compile and normalize. Crews hunt for material. Scope changes argued after the fact. When the contractor leaves, the knowledge leaves too.
One format for proposals, cost, and manpower. Self-serve material with real-time status. Changes approved before work starts. When the contractor leaves, the record stays with the refinery.
Stop rebuilding the same turnaround every cycle.