NPP operating facilities certification

This project was notable for a record-breaking number of recordings during one installation of Certification system — over 2.7 million workstations and 2.4 million equipment items featuring 90 attributes

The largest power engineering company

Deadlines

28 May 2020 – 27 December 2021

Team

70 persons

Technologies

• IBM Maximo
• Certification system

Background

• Lack of a unified plant Equipment Database at some NPPs, due to which production shops maintained equipment lists in a non-normalized manner
• There is a need to create a unified NPP operation support system for 10 plants due to the lack of a methodology and rules for maintaining Equipment Databases that would be shared by all NPPs

Project goals

• Formation of an Equipment Database for NPP operation support Information System, including plant management system
• Formation of an up-to-date electronic Equipment Database
• Formation of an Equipment Database in a data format suitable for data import into IBM Maximo for Nuclear ver. 7.6 using MxLoader utility without additional processing

Objectives

• Expand methodological documents with a detailed description of approaches to filling directories with business data
• Develop a methodology for verification of data by the Customer
• Create hardware for data acquisition, enrichment, preparation, and standardizing
• Collect data from Equipment Database directories and create an WS** and EI* structure on the basis of existing electronic structured sources and paper scan copies
• Carry out initial formation of WS and EI structure from paper process/functional diagrams if electronic sources are unavailable
• Perform operations to update, enrich, standardize and cleanse data acquired from a variety of structured and unstructured sources

Results

• Methodological documents defining the structure, composition and rules for Equipment Database have been developed
• Data was acquired for Equipment Databases of all NPPs
• The following methodological documents were updated:
  • Methodology for populating/updating an Equipment Database, including formation of design types and a classifier of items subject to repair and operation
  • Regulations on maintaining an Equipment Database, a local and a centralized MDM
  • An engineering solution for the implementation of a unified information space for automation of plant management and for daily operation
• Equipment Database was processed, standardized and enriched.
• Templates for importing Equipment Database into the target system were developed
• The database was imported into IBM Maximo
• Training provided to users on data enrichment and data validation topics

* Equipment Item — a separate technical item, the maintenance and repair of which is performed autonomously

** Workstation — a place at the plant where maintenance activities are carried out