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Configuration Management Benchmarking Group
Presentation and Session Detail
2004 CMBG
Presentations and Breakout Sessions
The schedule for CMBG 2004 is set up with
various presentations to the entire group during the morning Monday
through Wednesday, and smaller group breakout sessions and workshops in
the afternoon on Monday and Tuesday.
The morning presentations on Tuesday and Wednesday include brief
“Read Outs” to the entire group on the results of the previous
day’s workshops and breakout sessions. The afternoons on Monday and Tuesday are divided into a
workshop track and a breakout session track.
The workshop track on each day covers a single
workshop on a high interest subject, lasting all afternoon (with a break
in the middle). Workshops
are expected to provide time for information sharing, but to also work
toward team completion of recommended actions and/or problem solutions.
The breakout session track on each day covers an
A session with two topics to choose from, and after the break, a
B session with two more topics to choose from.
Therefore, an attendee can choose to spend the afternoon at a
workshop or choose one breakout from Session A and one from Session B.
Presentations
Monday
·
Welcome
– Sharing on a World Wide Scale –
Rick Muench, President and CEO, Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating
Corporation.
·
History
of the CMBG-“Over a decade of
sharing”- how the CMBG started, its evolution to date, and recent
changes.
·
CM
Fundamentals (CM101)- a review of
the basics to help first time attendees and get us all on the same
‘terminology’ page.
·
INPO
Update- a status report on alignment
to the new Operational Excellence Outcomes approach to evaluation, and
its impact on Configuration Management
·
Margin Management
– In 2003 Comanche Peak Steam Electric Station developed and
implemented a margin model in response to feedback from INPO and
involved a combination of research, collegial discussion, and industry
input. Implementation
required design, development, training and procedural revisions.
Tuesday
·
CM,
The Big Picture – Steve Hedges - Manager Integrated Plant Scheduling,
Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation.
·
The
Paks Event – USNRC: Severe
damage to fuel external to the reactor due to a loss of decay-heat
removal.
·
NEI
Update – Nuclear Energy Institute
status report on business initiatives related to CM.
Wednesday
·
2005
CMBG Conference- a brief
announcement by the 2005 conference host.
·
Supporting
Operations- Kevin Scherich, Director
Engineering, Wolf Creek.
·
Steering
Committee/CM Community of Practice Update – brief
description of the role and activities CMBG is involved in with NEI,
INPO, NIRMA, and other U.S. industry groups.
·
Hyatt
Skywalk Tragedy – Jack Gillum
discusses how loss of configuration control resulted in a major
disaster.
·
DOE
and NRC Regulated CM – A comparison.
·
Forum
-
Workshops
and Breakout Sessions
Monday Afternoon
Workshop:
Implementation of Performance Indicators
Sharing
the successes, problems, and pitfalls of implementing CM PIs.
Breakout Session A
Option
1- Promoting
CM- One of INPO’s enablers is “Well managed and understood Safety,
Design and Operational Margins.” To achieve this, the principles and
processes of CM must be communicated to all site organizations that play a
role. This topic should address ways that utilities can create a
heightened awareness through training, communication and site groups like
CM steering committees.
Option
2 - Maintaining
Design/License Basis Information -
Breakout Session B
Option
1- Margin
Management – John Meyer, Comanche Peak.
In 2003 Comanche Peak Steam Electric Station developed and
implemented a margin model in response to feedback from INPO and involved
a combination of research, collegial discussion, and industry input.
Implementation required design, development, training and
procedural revisions.
Option
2- INPO AP-929 Revision, INPO
Tuesday afternoon
Workshop:
Calculation Management - an extended
discussion and comparison of calculation management practices.
Breakout Session A
Option 1- Creating a Single Equipment Database, Mike Lindsay - Sharing experiences of the identification and consolidation of plant configuration databases into one interconnected information system. This discussion will examine the experiences of plants to integrate their equipment databases into a single source, object oriented information system which has a relationship structure with plant design information such as drawings, calculations, design change packages, locations.
Option
2- Reducing Management Facility Configuration Information – In
this time of increased pressure to control costs of plant operations, the
amount of managed facility configuration information (drawings,
calculations, component data, licensing documents, others) required to
support plant activities has a significant impact on these costs. This
breakout will focus on identifying effective methods to reduce the volume
of FCI being managed by a station while minimizing the impact of this
reduction on the safe, reliable operation of the facility.
Breakout Session B
Option
1- Using CM to Assure the Plant’s
Design Bases Are Maintained – The October 9, 1996 NRC letter to all
utilities (commonly referred to as the 10CFR50.54f letter) requested that
each licensed unit provide information supporting:
the rationale for concluding that design bases requirements are
translated into operating, maintenance, and testing procedures; the
rationale for concluding that system, structure, and component
configuration and performance are consistent with the design bases.
This breakout session is intended to address the issues by identifying:
(a) Examples of how the design bases requirements may get missed/
changed in operating, maintenance, and testing procedures; (b) Specific CM
Program elements to address the issues; (c) Practical ways to assure that
the design bases requirements are identified and translated into
operating, maintenance, and testing procedures; (d) Guidance for assessing
your CM program for conformance.
Option 2- Electronic Processes - sharing experiences and lessons learned during the development, implementation, and use of electronic CM processes.
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