Industries
The deepest backlogs in the industry.
Isolation plans for every turnaround. Investigations queued for quarters. A change review gating every fix. Refining carries more deferred engineering work than any other industry, and the bench that carried it is retiring.
Where the year goes
A refinery’s engineering backlog is not a staffing accident. It is structural. Unit complexity means the line you care about crosses sheet after sheet through off-page connectors, so every plan, every investigation, and every review begins with a trace only a senior engineer can do by hand.
- Turnarounds set the clock. Every window demands isolation plans by the hundred, each one a multi-sheet trace of every line and energy source feeding the work. The planning starts a year out and still runs late.
- Investigations queue for quarters. The failures keep coming, but the evidence work behind each root cause analysis takes days that no one has. So the queue grows, and the trail goes cold.
- MOC gates every fix. No repair, reroute, or setpoint change moves without an impact analysis. The review protects the plant. The waiting drains it.
Hiring will not close the gap. The work has to move to a workforce that does not exist yet on the org chart.
Workflows for refining
The backlog, worked in order.
Intuigents run these workflows on the compiled graph of your refinery. The multi-sheet trace that takes an engineer a day takes the graph seconds, and every deliverable arrives cited.
Turnaround scope
A risk-ranked scope where every job earns its place. The evidence behind each work-list item, assembled before the challenge meeting instead of after it.
Process isolation
Every line feeding the work, traced across sheets, with the drains, vents, and energy sources enumerated. Drafted for an engineer to approve, at turnaround volume.
Root cause analysis
The evidence file built in an afternoon: what failed, what was upstream, what changed recently, and which sheets prove it. The queue moves while the trail is warm.
Management of change
The change classified, the affected systems swept, the impact analysis drafted with citations. The review keeps its rigor and loses its wait.
Turnaround scope Process isolation Root cause analysis Management of change
“It did in an afternoon what my team had backlogged for a quarter.”
Senior process engineer, Fortune-100 refiner