STO Handbooks


For Sale: STO Planning Handbook and STO Management Handbook by Dick Ertl


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STO Planning and Management Handbooks

InterPlan Systems is pleased to offer hard copy editions of our popular STO planning and STO management primers. These hard copy editions are spiral bound for lasting and convenient use/reference. They also contain additional material not found in our online primers.

The STO Planning Handbook condenses our extensive experience in planning shutdowns, turnarounds and outages over the last few decades. It provides a solid background for anyone faced with planning and scheduling shutdowns, turnarounds and outages in a variety of industries: oil refineries, chemical plants, power plants and shipyards. This handbook spans 160 pages and includes a selection of planning templates.

Similarly, the STO Manager’s Handbook covers our extensive experience in managing shutdowns, turnarounds and outages over the last few decades. It provides a solid background for anyone faced with managing and controlling shutdowns, turnarounds and outages. This handbook spans 75 pages and is sure to be a key reference for the professional manager.

InterPlan Systems also offers a companion guide to the STO Planning Handbook called STO Planning Resources. STO Planning Resources is a detail level guide to preparing work scopes for many typical cleaning, inspection and overhaul/repair job plans as encountered in STOs.

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“These handbooks expand upon the free primers published on our website. The handbooks are required reference materials for every professional planner and manager.”

Author Bernard Ertl, Vice President, InterPlan Systems