The world's most innovative software toolkit for turnarounds and shutdowns. 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 turnarounds. The ever-evolving toolset places the unrivaled turnaround expertise of AP-Networks on the desktop of every turnaround professional across the enterprise.
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.
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:
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
Learn more about acXisThe Turnaround 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 Turnaround 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 Turnaround Readiness Pyramid is the Turnaround Readiness Index (TRI) Score. This score serves as a quantifiable measure of readiness, and it is generated by measuring the planning status across 21 component areas of turnaround preparation. The degree of agreement of the team members and the planning status are both components of the TRI Score. AP-Networks has quantifiably found that cost and schedule overrun decrease as the TRI Score increases, and turnaround outcomes become more competitive and more predictable.
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The ability to assess and mitigate risk is essential to success in heavy industry. To address risks generated by supply chain constraints, safety concerns, or the ability to execute, managers need resources to aid them in identifying risks before they impact outcomes. At AP-Networks, our experience in the industry led us to develop the Risk Manager tool.
The Risk Manager is a self-assessment tool that enables turnaround teams to predict the cost, schedule, lost profit opportunity, safety, and operability outcomes based on empirical data from other turnarounds with similar characteristics. These characteristics are the drivers behind turnaround predictability. In addition to providing risks with specific outcome performance benchmarks, the Risk Manager also highlights specific planning components to focus on to minimize the impact of these potential risks.
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Two of the most fear-inspiring words in the world of project management are “scope creep.” Last moment changes significantly affect planned budgets, and project managers in heavy industry are left to adjust accordingly with little time to do so.
This leads to questions that need answers: What is the cost impact of starting the turnaround earlier? What if the turnaround were delayed? What is the cost penalty of adding additional work packages after the scope freeze date? What if scope items were removed?
Turnaround managers typically confront these types of decisions during the definition and planning phases of a turnaround – and sometimes in the late stages of turnaround preparation. AP-Networks’ Cost of Change Calculator aids in making these critical decisions by helping turnaround managers to assess various cost alternatives against the business drivers for making late changes. The Cost of Change Calculator estimates the impact of these changes on the overall turnaround cost.
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Turnarounds are complex, but not all turnarounds are equal. Different turnarounds, even at the same plant, can carry different inherent levels of complexity. Our NaviTrack tool is incredibly robust and provides work processes for even the most intricate turnarounds—but not every turnaround will call for all of the tools that NaviTrack provides.
In order to ensure that NaviTrack gives our users that right tools for the nature of their turnaround, we developed the Complexity Calculator.
The Complexity Calculator categorizes a turnaround using the following system based on characteristics independently correlated with turnaround outcomes. This complexity assessment is the starting point for effective planning and preparation.
The NaviTrack work process—which includes milestones, activities, job aids, and timing—is deployed in accordance with turnaround complexity. This ensures that the appropriate level of rigor and assurance is leveraged for Mega Complexity turnarounds while not burdening Low Complexity turnarounds with the same requirements. Throughout the AP-Networks assurance process, readiness is similarly tied to turnaround complexity, ensuring that benchmarks of individual turnaround readiness vs. Industry are made on an equivalent basis.
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