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The optimum way to use the model starts with forming a shutdown maintenance scope of work assessment team. In this team, a representative from each discipline that is related to the plant operational, safety and maintenance economic issues such as the plant maintenance personnel, operations personnel, safety personnel, inspection personnel, technical and service personnel, shutdown maintenance planner and any other related personnel is included. The reason behind this is to gain maximum benefit from their experience in determining the plant operational, safety and maintenance economic issues (criteria) and the limits that will be used in the model evaluation process. In addition, the involvement of such people is necessary and recommended in order to gain their buy-in to the model. In addition to the formation of the team, the members of the team are provided with several sources of information that can help them to identify the different operational, safety and maintenance economic issues (criteria) and their limits. Some of these sources of information are the following: 1. Support financial data records and files which will provide information on the direct, indirect, and overhead cost of the maintenance activities which in turn represents valuable details in the determination of the economic issues and their limits. 2. Shutdown maintenance records and files which will provide information on the time required to perform each maintenance activity which in turn helps in calculating the loss in production that is caused by performing each activity. In addition, these records and files help in the determination of the non-acceptable level of the partial shutdown maintenance and also in the determination of the economic issues and their limits. 3. Safety records, files and governmental and international safety regulations which will provide information on safety precautions that are needed to perform each maintenance activity and the level of the safety risk that is associated with failure to perform certain maintenance activities. This type of information will help in the determination of the safety issues and their limits. 4. System operation manuals, which provide information on how, the system to which the maintenance activity is related, is intended to function, how it relates to other systems and what operational limits are employed. This information will help in the determination of the operational issues and their limits. 5. Any other source of information such as piping and instrumentation diagrams, process flow diagrams, work order system and equipment data sheet which the team identifies as important in the determination of the plant operational, safety and maintenance economic issues. Case Study: The above-mentioned model has been applied to one of the oil refineries in Saudi Arabia and the result of the application was the following: 1. A team was formed in order to perform the steps of the model. This team has representatives from the maintenance department, operations department, test and inspection department,

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and technical and service department, in addition to, shutdown maintenance planner and filed operation engineer.