Peer Review Process: Adding Value, Enhancing Operations and Building Collaborative Teamwork Spirit in Production Engineering

Abstract

Abstract The Peer Review (PR) concept is a widely practiced process used in various organizations all around the world, and though it is not new, it is very necessary. The Saudi Aramco - Southern Area Producing Engineering Department has taken the initiative to adopt and apply this unique concept to its organizations for more than a year. The PR process has demonstrated to improve production and cost savings/avoidance, to ensure safety issues being in compliance and most importantly, to share with and pass on knowledge among the technical workforce. The intent of this paper is to share our experience with respect to the PR process within the Production Engineering organization. This paper presents the PR processes, including its history, rationale, definition, purpose, scope, benefits, guidelines (including member's qualifications and how the PR session is conducted), flow process, structure, PR qualities and characteristics, tracking system, selection of PR projects and a number of actual case examples accomplished by the PR groups.