MONITORING AND PROTECTING CRITICAL ASSETS IN THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY
The UK nuclear power industry has placed increased importance on equipment reliability in recent years, with plants striving to improve equipment availability while reducing operating and maintenance costs. For plant personnel that are responsible for reliability at nuclear power plants, one of the most significant challenges is making sure maintenance tasks are focused on the right equipment at the right time.
If this is your responsibility, you will understand the importance of making time-critical decisions in this rapidly evolving regulatory and economic environment. Your plant’s critical equipment must be available and reliable, with additional challenges to overcome such as safety, restricted access areas, and radiations exposure limits.
Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) can be an effective strategy for improving plant performance in the nuclear industry, with many UK sites incorporating a rigorous equipment reliability plan at their plant to monitor the reliability and availability of critical assets such as rotational and fixed assets, bespoke facility materials handling equipment and cranes and skip handlers.
DO YOU FACE THESE RELIABILITY CHALLENGES?
- Staff shortages due to occupational radiation exposure limits
- An increasing backlog of corrective maintenance tasks
- Unacceptable levels of production downtime
- Unpredictable ageing equipment
- Safety issues
