Electronic
Work
Package
By Dale Shaw, Exelon Generation.
Dale Shaw
Dale Shaw has 31 year’s experience
maintaining and overseeing
maintenance activities at Commercial
Nuclear Power Plants for Exelon. His
current roll includes
Corporate Oversight
and Governance of
23 reactors at 14
facilities located in
Illinois, Maryland,
Nebraska, New
Jersey, New York, and
Pennsylvania. Shaw
is also the Business
Project Lead for
the Electronic Work
Packages (eWP)
and responsible for
deployment across
Mid-West Sites
with further Fleet
deployments scheduled in 2016 and
2017.
Shaw has an Associate of Applied
Science in Electrical Engineering from
Delaware Tech.
Nuclear Energy Institute’s Top Industry
Practice (TIP) Awards highlight the
nuclear industry’s most innovative
techniques and ideas.
This innovation won the 2015 B. Ralph
Sylvia Best of the Best Top Industry
Practice Award.
The team members who participated
included: Dale Shaw, Project Business
Owner; Pete Muller, IT Project
Manager; Tom Massey, Clinton Project
Core Team Representative; Mark Tippet,
Clinton Electrical Maintenance Group
Leader; Jim Domitrovich, Corporate
Maintenance Director.
The Electronic Work Package (eWP)
Project is the largest change to the way
Exelon performs maintenance at our
Nuclear Stations in over a decade. This
technology is a first in the industry. This
electronic-based process flow was de-
signed to increase productivity efficien-
cies throughout the entire work execution
process based on a process flow GAP
analysis that identified inefficiencies in
the current way of doing business.
Maintenance Planners have histori-
cally prepared work packages using the
existing Enterprise Asset Management
systems (e.g. PassPort, Maximo, PIMS,
etc.). However much of the process is a
manual, paper-based process of collect-
ing various docu-
ments that exist in
various documenta-
tion systems, created
on word processing
software or are hand
written. The docu-
ments are collected
into binders and their
review, approval, use
by the worker, close-
out reviews and re-
cords storage required
manual handling of
the work packages.
eWP integrates
various
document
source systems so work packages
are created digitally saving resources
previously used to generate and build
the binders. eWP utilizes web-based
software that manages and stores work
packages that provides access to all
Exelon personnel. The ability to easily
view, review and approve work packages
from any Exelon computer provides
a far greater flexibility and resource
savings from the paper method for work
approval and closeout. Workers perform
work in the field using work packages
on iPads that sync the latest information
and documentation with the main eWP
application. Benefits include:
1) capability to view in-progress work
status by supervisors or Operations
or Outage Control Centers;
2) performing infield work package
revisions or document additions and;
3) capturing as-found/infield condition
pictures that can be viewed by
applicable support personnel for
disposition without requiring plant
entry and in real time.
As left conditions can be better
documented via pictures and videos.
eWP reduces resources throughout the
work execution process while providing
better documentation and easier work
closeout for Maintenance and Operations
resulting in higher quality work and
greater equipment reliability.
eWP also has the ability to improve
industrial and nuclear safety. This is
through color highlighting, use of smart
procedures that can force step by step
compliance and ensure entered data
ranges are valid , and the ability to provide
more reference material. This keeps the
worker in procedure-based decisions
during the performance of work.
The use of eWP was evaluated to
have a conservative $16M return over 7
years based on the personnel resource
and material savings. This technology
will be implemented at all Exelon Sites
over the next several years in a sequence
based on current Site Integrated Asset
Management
Software
(PassPort,
Maximo, or PIMS). As for industry
transferability, Exelon’s eWP design and
deployment process has been followed
and documented by EPRI to assist other
Nuclear Facilities with this technology.
As a result of Exelon’s collaboration
with EPRI the project has received a
2015 EPRI Nuclear Technology Transfer
Award for deploying this technology and
sharing Operating Experience with the
industry.
Safety Response
This technology provides the ability
to attach a vast amount of electronic
information to work tasks effortlessly.
Safety-focused documents, Operational
Experience (OPEX), photos, maps and
videos can be embedded in any task
and viewed at a workstation or eWP
iPad without being dependent on an
active wireless connection. Additional
safety products can be uploaded to any
eWP iPad where wireless connectivity
is present. This provides the ability to
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