Engineering Standards | October 22, 2025 Transforming Corporate Standards – Part 4: Knowl... “Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.” –Miles Kington… Read More
Learning & Development | October 22, 2025 Planning Your Training Budget with Clarity and Imp... Are you guessing at your team’s training needs? Scrambling to recall what should be included? Reacting to problems only after… Read More
Process Technology | October 15, 2025 How to Implement an Operations Excellence Manageme... As we discussed in Part One and Part Two of this series, an operations excellence management system (OEMS) that is… Read More
Learning & Development | September 17, 2025 A New Framework for Successful Hybrid Training... If you were to observe a Becht training session as a “fly on the wall,” you would witness more than… Read More
Engineering Standards | September 2, 2025 Transforming Corporate Standards – Part 3: Advan... “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.” –Stephen R. Covey (The 7 Habits of Highly… Read More
Corrosion, Materials & Integrity | August 26, 2025 When CCDs Go Stale: The Hidden Risk of Static Docu... Corrosion Control Documents (CCDs) are a foundational element of a site’s mechanical integrity strategy. They capture the understanding of damage… Read More
Process Technology | August 13, 2025 Core Components of an Effective OEMS in High-Hazar... In Part One of this series, we discussed organizing your business documentation within the framework of an operations excellence management… Read More
Learning & Development | August 6, 2025 Clear Career Progression: Key to Keeping Your Best... Did you know limited advancement opportunities are among the top reasons employees seek new jobs? While salary, benefits, and hybrid… Read More
Engineering Standards | August 4, 2025 Transforming Corporate Standards – Part 2: Integ... “It’s the least terrible way we know how to do this – so we call it best practice.” The use… Read More
Turnaround, Maintenance & Reliability | July 23, 2025 Why the Metric of Man-Weeks Is Insufficient for Ma... With rising cost pressures and restrictions on increasing labor, many organizations find themselves facing a substantial maintenance backlog. Ensuring that… Read More
Learning & Development | July 9, 2025 BechtCONNECT: Scaling Expertise for Greater Effici... In today’s refining and petrochemical industries, success isn’t just about cutting costs. It’s about making sure every dollar spent delivers… Read More
Electrical, Instrumentation & Controls | June 24, 2025 Justifying Electrical Infrastructure Investments w... Investing in electrical infrastructure, whether it’s a new substation, a distribution system upgrade, or a network expansion, requires more than… Read More
Process Technology | June 11, 2025 Why an Operations Excellence Management System (OE... High-hazard industries – like oil and gas, chemical manufacturing, nuclear power, and mining – deal with processes and materials that… Read More
Turnaround, Maintenance & Reliability | May 28, 2025 Shortening the Turnaround Window Through Efficient... By Ralph Davies with contributions from Gordon Lawrence Maintenance turnarounds are an unavoidable part of operating a refinery, petrochemical plant,… Read More
Learning & Development | May 21, 2025 Learning from Experience: Becht’s Expert Instruc... At Becht, technical training isn’t just about presenting information—it’s about passing on decades of experience, lessons learned in the field,… Read More
