Controlling costs, availability and maintenance
Managing all aspects from the development stage to the end-of-life of the facility, planning ahead for operating issues and preparing maintenance to guarantee both production performance and costs.
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In a competitive environment, demand is high for an evaluation of the following in studies to ensure control at the earliest possible stage:
- Facility availability (calculating overall equipment effectiveness),
- Total Cost of Ownership (acquisition and through-life support costs),
- Industrial risks,
- Maintenance support,
- Through-Life Support for equipments.
Understanding analytical methodologies can help to support and maintain equipments throughout their life cycle and achieve the target competitiveness.
Two complementary and interdependent approaches are used to optimize equipment design and maintenance processes:
- Operational Safety Management is the main influence for equipment design,
- Integrated Logistics Support covers maintenance.
Orano can innovate thanks to digital software used to simulate the operation of a facility, integrating all limitations, downgraded modes, random events (failures, external event) and successive operating phases.
Orano can:
- provide a design, establish a maintenance strategy and size resources to achieve an optimum availability-to-cost ratio,
- quantify risks (e.g. safety). These approaches tangent the actual risk and ensure risk control thanks to targeted investment designed to meet needs spot-on.
- Optimising OPEX costs,
- Improving the design to optimise maintenance and limit the impact of random failures,
- Establishing a maintenance strategy to match the design and meet needs spot-on,
- Managing the tools required for these methods (MTBF, FMECA, MTTR, failure trees, Petri nets, etc.),
- Large-scale feedback and database,
- Ability to deploy the methodology for all systems.
Skills in Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) methods and operational safety management (OSM) combined with:
- nuclear safety risk control: With this expertise, the frequency of feared events can be quantified and controlled thanks to targeted actions designed to meet needs spot-on.
- facility expertise (design, maintenance policies, etc.): this expertise provides the basis for an evaluation of the availability-to-cost ratio and to control this ratio.
Orano engineering implements ILS and OSM studies as part of major Orano group projects:
- New Fission Product Concentration (NCPF) unit at the La Hague plant,
- Georges Besse II plant.
This approach is recognised by nuclear safety authorities.
- Reduction and control of the Total Cost of Ownership of your equipements
- Improved equipment control from the development phase to end-of-life,
- Reduce the risks which could impact availability and/or safety.
- Provide support as part of Through-Life Support for your equipments
