While greenhouse gas issues continue to increase the demand for nuclear power, regulatory risks are hindering the modernization of many nuclear plant systems to meet this demand. The age of operating fleets is nearing original design limits and the downsizing of critical talent has resulted in staff who are focused on short term results rather than performance improvement activities. With these constraints, many nuclear plant operators are finding it increasingly difficult to meet demand while continuing to maintain the highest level of availability, safety and environmental compliance.
IPS can help with solutions that are proven to reduce risk and life cycle costs while maximizing generating unit availability and reliability. We can provide the unique functionality demanded by nuclear plant operators from a plant-wide DCS system with unique nuclear alarming capabilities that reduce strain on the work force to a market-leading 1E certified safety system with more than 400,000,000 uninterrupted operational hours. We also provide seismic and radiation certified instruments and simulation for the unique requirements of the industry.
To address the challenges and unique requirements of the nuclear industry, IPS brings together key elements from our comprehensive product portfolio with powerful solutions including:
- Critical Asset Management transforming your operations to a predictive and proactive approach encompassing operations, maintenance and supply chain to accelerate production, reduce lifting costs and extend asset life.
- Operator & Engineering Effectiveness enhancing overall team productivity and utilization through right-time scenario evaluation, training and critical situation management while providing a highly productive and intuitive environment with templates that enable consistent, high quality engineering solutions in a collaborative environment.
- Maintenance Effectiveness providing the required availability at the lowest possible cost through best practices and advanced techniques including Condition Based Maintenance and Reliability Centred maintenance.
- Real Time Finance providing global visibility to all key performance indicators and the financial impact of operational decisions.
- Production Optimization improves yield, minimizes quality giveaway and fuel blend reworks, and reduces inventory and maintenance costs.
Process and Functional Safety Management provides safety control and on-line SIL assessments, with leading safety indicators.
All of these solutions are enabled by the global industry experience embodied in our Global Consulting organization. This world class team works with our clients to identify the issues and opportunities and develop the strategy, action plan and ROI for the necessary solution components.
IPS has been a significant supplier to the nuclear industry for over 50 years and is well staffed with automation engineers familiar with nuclear applications. Because IPS owns our control platform, you can be assured superior quality support of your safety, control and plant computer systems for the life of the plant. Ownership of the platform allows us to maintain the highest level of reliability and develop new modules and software packages specifically targeted to nuclear plant needs. These applications reduce risk and lower total life cycle costs by reduced maintenance.
IPS has demonstrated our commitment to the industry by developing and maintaining strong relationships with the NRC and various industry associations. Our solutions are designed to safely and reliably maximize the value of your nuclear assets.