Avenir can bring about significant reduction in maintenance shutdown time for kilns in cement industries and blast furnaces in steel industries. This is enabled by: By focusing on tasks which impact the length of the Critical Chain. (Critical Chain is the longest chain of dependent activities in a project taking into account resource contention and the Critical Chain duration determines the project duration)

Focusing implies

1. Resourcing all the critical chain tasks to the maximum.
2. Ensuring all the preparations for the in progress critical chain tasks and incoming critical chain tasks are complete.
3. Company wide policy decisions to ensure that the critical chain tasks flow smoothly.