The nuclear power industry can be more intelligent about building and operating plants, maximizing safety, and raising security with modern asset management capabilities.
FREMONT, CA: Through the world’s nuclear power plants impending their natural lifespans and forces inhibiting new construction, active asset management in existing plants provides a viable solution for increasing plant longevity.
The growing interest in enhancing the efficiency of a nuclear power plant and its competitiveness in the market needs a relevant nuclear asset management strategy. Due to the complex nature of nuclear power plant operations, asset management tactics are also naturally complicated.
The motivation for developing a more comprehensive asset management plan can be drawn from the requirement for extensive knowledge management combined with the regulatory realm of the nuclear plant operator. In addition, regulatory requirements need a scheduled maintenance strategy to be unified into the asset maintenance program to magnify safety and minimize cost. Nevertheless, this is considered the bare minimum.
The new nuclear power station, the physical design of a track, is an established process involving instrumentation, control, and automation systems. Physical plant design implies the architect engineering firm, the reactor and sub-system vendors, the automation system, and the supplier. Asset management integrates the data from physical assets with digital elements.
Today’s nuclear power plants need solutions to support the maintenance of interconnected and intelligent assets that make up the vast nuclear infrastructure. More brilliant acquisition and life-cycle management can only help these converged assets. It will support all business processes, from the design and building of nuclear plants to the operation and maintenance of plants. By working carefully with solution providers in the industry, nuclear power organizations can break down operational and organizational asset management silos.
