A turnaround is the best opportunity of the year to get control valves into top condition — and the worst possible time to discover you are missing a part. Because the parts strategy has to be in place long before the unit comes down, the work that decides a smooth restart happens months ahead of the shutdown itself.
Plan parts before the shutdown
Turnaround scopes grow as inspections open valves and reveal more work than the plan assumed, and valve parts — trim, specialty packing and electronics in particular — often carry lead times longer than the turnaround window allows. The combination is what creates the classic mid-turnaround scramble.
Plants that avoid it inventory their valves in advance, anticipate the likely trim, packing and positioner needs from history and inspection data, and secure genuine spares before the outage begins — so a discovered problem meets a part already on site.
The cost of a missing part
During a turnaround, a single missing valve component can hold up the restart of an entire unit, with every connected system waiting behind it. The cost of that delay dwarfs the carrying cost of the spare many times over — the economics of stocking ahead are rarely close.
The discipline is to treat critical-valve spares as part of the turnaround plan from the start, on the critical path, rather than as an afterthought handled by expediting once the valve is already open.
Build the list early
A practical sequence works: list the valves in the turnaround scope, identify their genuine part numbers, confirm availability and lead time against the schedule, and stage and kit the parts before the unit comes down. The earlier the list is built and verified, the fewer surprises land on the critical path when the clock is most expensive.
ACD supports that planning with genuine Fisher™ spares and same-business-day quoting from stock in Orlando, so the parts a turnaround needs are confirmed and staged before the shutdown — not chased during it.
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