Nuclear Fleet Automation and Standardization

With 13 plants and over 20 reactors the largest nuclear operator in North America was formed through multiple acquisitions. Four entities, with different cultures, different data sources, and different processes were joined to create an enormous company with a single mission of delivering power efficiently. Knowledge Relay’s Information Visualizer 3 helped them realize that mission.

With the acquisition of new plants; the Nuclear Operator faced enormous challenges.

• Converting and migrating to the same software applications across the fleet
• Processing massive amounts of data from diverse sources in a changing environment
• Standardizing the user experience to achieve one version of the truth, an accurate version

Knowledge Relay delivered the solution that hit the mark.  Information Visualizer 3 was employed with the Data Depot concept allowing for thousands of reports, KPIs, and analytics to be delivered at every plant under the same format and provided management with an overall view of the entire operation.  Areas of opportunity were exposed along with bottlenecks and pitfalls.  Our customer became not only the largest Nuclear Operator, but the “best practices” leader with the most efficient operations.

Knowledge Relay automated the entire process.  Automated data pulls from each data source at every plant are brought into Data Depot, where custom rules, integrations, and cleansing are automatically performed.  The data is then populated into advanced templates that are standardized across the fleet and delivered to groups and individuals as needed on a schedule determined by the customer’s staff.

“With Knowledge Relay, I can walk into any plant throughout our fleet and within ½ hour have all of the advanced metrics needed” – Project Controls Manager (Nuclear)

The Knowledge Relay solution allowed software migrations to be advanced throughout the fleet without the consumers of information ever knowing a change occurred.