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The O I C Group and it's affiliate, oicoutage.com are in the business of helping Build Outage Alliance Teams. For Power Plant Outages it's important to Emphasize Safety, to Understanding Scope, engage in Effective Resource Sharing, Maintain the Quality of welds, Adhere to the Outage Schedule, keep cost down, and work as a team.
The Outage Management Game has Changed! Now more than ever there is the essential need for Asset Owners, Plant Management, and the Primary Contractors who hire the Craft Labor to work together as one team....in a deliberate, focused, and aligned manner.
Dwindling Resources, Rising costs, Shrinking Labor Pool, all driven by the economics of getting a unit back on-line as quickly as possible compels those responsible for Outage Management to make the shift to creating Operational Alliances and Working Partnerships with Primary Vendors and Service Providers.
Change means: THINKING DIFFERENTLY, PLANNING DIFFERENTLY, COMMMUNICATING DIFFERENTLY, EXCUTING DIFFERENTLY Outage Alliance Teams engage in a Working Partnership that includes Changing Habits…Shifting Beliefs….Responding to Different Expectations…Trying Out New Behaviors… Moving from a Low-Cost/ Fixed Bids and an Us/Them working relationship to a Joint Alliance and Partnering Delivering with Shared Knowledge, Shared Planning, Shared Contractual Understandings, Shared Responsibilities, Shared Accountabilities, Shared Results and Benefits..leading to the proverbial Win-Win!