MONDAY
PRESENTATIONS
Welcome
Paul Davis, PSEG Nuclear LLC
Paul Davis will provide logistical
information about conference activities.
CM and CMBG History
Keith Reinsmith, PPL Susquehanna (CMBG Chair)
This
presentation will present a chronology and evolution of configuration
management as a practice and review the history and role of CMBG in CM.
ANSI/NIRMA CM 1.0 Revision
Rich Giska, STP Nuclear Operating Company
The NIRMA/ANSI CM Standard has proven to be a
cohesive factor for the nuclear industry since it was first issued in 2000. It
was revised and re-issued in 2007. Based on the ANSI standard process, the
document is scheduled to be reviewed and revised, if necessary in 2012. This
presentation will provide an overview of the standard and prompt discussion for
the afternoon breakout session.
INPO Update
Carl Faller and Bob Gambrill, INPO
INPO
to present an update of engineering Configuration Management activates.
Web
link to video presentation
Overview
of Updated IAEA documents SR-65 and TECDOC-1651
Kent Freeland, WorleyParsons
The
IAEA has been active at providing CM guidance to nuclear entities outside of
the
Obsolete Equipment
Rob Santoro, PKMJ
The
Nuclear Industry is faced with a growing obsolescence challenge of about 20% of
all installed components obsolete. This
presentation outlines the affects of this increasing challenge to configuration
management. Configuration challenges are
brought to light in the identification phase of obsolescence. Accurate Master Equipment Lists and Bills of
Materials are required to understand the full extent of condition of
obsolescence. Finally, when solving
these obsolescence challenges, plant changes may be required. This can include Equivalency Evaluations,
Design Modifications, and Reverse Engineering.
Physical Configuration, Design Requirements, and Documented
Configuration may all need to be modified to address these changes.
EPRI Project Status
Ken Barry, EPRI
The
presenters will provide the overall status of the project and discuss specifics
of the CM Guidance document and the industry AEX/XML integration
demonstrations. Specifics of the project’s future activities will be addressed.
This presentation should prompt discussion for the afternoon breakout sessions.
MONDAY BREAKOUTS -
Existing/Common
CM 101 - Training
Material
Instructor -
This
session would be based on a 45-60 minute PowerPoint presentation that walks the
audience through the fundamental concepts, terms, and examples of Configuration
Management (CM), including design and operating margin management. The
objective of this breakout is to attract those conference attendees new to the
configuration management process and provide them with a capsule summary of the
workings of the CM process to provide an understanding of how the different
plant organizations contribute to and support configuration control of our
design, processes, and equipment. Will discuss industry three ball process
model for configuration management, the five functional areas of CM, and using
CM to protect design and operating margins.
ANSI/NIRMA CM 1.0 Revision – Flip Charts
Facilitator - Rich Giska, STP
Nuclear Operating Company
The
breakout will review the standard and discuss its industry role and
relationship to other CM guidance documents. Participants for the breakout will
be expected to ask specific questions about the standard or provide input to
the possible revision.
Obsolete
Equipment – Flip
Charts
Facilitator – Rob Santoro, PKMJ
The
focus of this breakout session is to further explore the areas and situations
where obsolescence may impact configuration management. By understanding these impact areas, Sites
can be better prepared to address the potential issues that may result. The breakout session will also include a
discussion on strategies minimize the obsolescence impact, including proactive
approaches.
Drawing Control – Flip Charts
Facilitator - Mike Stout, Bentley Systems, Inc.
A
session around basic CM principles associated with classifying, controlling and
maintaining plant drawings. Industry
guidelines and good practices will be shared.
Temp Alterations – Flip
Charts
Facilitators – Angie Kozak, Bruce Power and Gary Stith, PSEG
Nuclear
Proper
management of temporary alterations is vital to facility configuration
management. This break out session will
focus on the various aspects of temporary alterations including terminology,
the criteria for deciding the proper change mechanism, i.e., full engineering
controls, procedure controlled, maintenance support, pre-engineered
alterations, etc. Attendee’s should be
prepared to discuss how their plant manages temporary alterations, problems
related to the removal of temporary alterations, site measures used to monitor
temporary alterations, and any problems related to the overdue removal of
temporary alterations.
MONDAY BREAKOUTS -
New Build
Developing CM Programs
for New Build – Flip
Charts
Facilitator -
This
breakout will expand on the morning presentation by EPRI. Specific suggestions
will be offered for building a robust CM Program from the ground up. The
participants will have an opportunity to ask questions, collect information and
lessons learned. The breakout material may also be useful to an existing plant
needing to upgrade or overhaul its CM Program.
Establishing a Common Understanding of CM for New
Builds – Flip
Charts
Facilitator -
The need to communicate CM principles and practices to all participants
of a New Build project is necessary to ensure short and long term success. With
the highly interactive climate brought about by new licensing methods and
current technology, the need to understand each participant’s role is
increased. It is necessary to know the upstream and downstream hand-offs to
appreciate the product being delivered. The breakout will cover techniques and
practical solutions to providing the needed common understanding.
Incorporating New Builds into
Existing Plant Infrastructure – Flip
Charts
Facilitator - Mike Hayes, Exelon
The
fact that no stand-alone nuclear plants are currently planned, presents today’s
Owner/Operators with some unique challenges. Do they try to meld the new
plant(s) into the existing infrastructure? Will existing procedures be modified
to address the new plant or will all new procedures be written? Will the
existing SSC numbering conventions be used? Will the Enterprise Asset
Management system be expanded to cover the new plant?
TUESDAY
PRESENTATIONS
Exemplary Margin Management
Mike Hayes, Exelon Corporate
Margin
management has been a hot topic at the CMBG Conference in the past few years.
Feedback from last year’s conference expressed the desire to see an example of
a successful margin management program. INPO has identified Exelon as having
such a program. This presentation will provide an overview of Exelon’s Margin
Management program and should prompt discussion for the afternoon breakout
session.
Digital I&C Systems Configuration
Management
David Woods, PPL Susquehanna
The proliferation of diverse digital I&C equipment for plant
upgrades and equipment replacements has challenged station personnel to develop
and implement effective configuration management methods. High level requirements and guidance provided
by industry standards are not being effectively translated into practical
methods to manage the configuration of digital I&C equipment. This presentation will discuss a current EPRI
project to develop a methodology and guidelines to assist station personnel to
implement effective configuration management processes and procedures for
various types of digital systems and components. This guidance will be based on practical,
best industry practices, compliant with industry and regulatory requirements.
This presentation
should prompt discussion for the afternoon breakout session.
New Build CM from EPC Perspective
Bob Renuart, Unistar
This
presentation will provide the management of CM from the Engineering,
Procurement and Construction (EPC) perspective. The topics will consist of; CM
lessons learned from existing plants, the impact of problems created by
breakdowns of CM principles outside of EPC involvement, the need for consistent
terminology and understanding of CM by all project participants, and
suggestions for improving CM from the EPC perspective.
CM Health PIs
The presenter will review the CMBG efforts to
quantify a consistent set of CM Performance Indicators. Results of an industry
questionnaire asking for specific indicator values will be presented. This
presentation will provide an overview of the CM Performance Indicators and
prompt discussion for the afternoon breakout session.
Successes
in Transferring Configuration Data from Supplier to Owner/Operator
Presenter John Whitmire, Bentley Systems, Inc.
The presenter will describe successes in techniques used
to transfer configuration information from supplier to owner/operator in other
industries. Challenges to the data transfer will be identified and the
solutions employed to overcome them explained. The presentation will provide an
overview of the data transfer process and will prompt discussion in the
afternoon breakout of how these processes could be adapted to nuclear plant
information.
TUESDAY BREAKOUTS -
Existing/Common
Abandoned Equipment – Flip Charts – Exelon
Procedure “Equipment Abandoned Via Operational Configuration Change” – PSEG
Procedure “Interim and Permanent Abandonment of Controlled Plant Equipment”
Facilitator - Joe Volence, PSEG Nuclear
This breakout addresses the fundamental elements and
differences between the Permanent and Interim Abandonment processes.
Interim Abandonment is offered up as an interim, less expensive
alternative to Permanent Abandonment using Design Changes when such Design
Changes score low with Plant Health Committees in the competition for limited
plant finances.
Consider the advantages and disadvantages of these two processes in terms
of resources, schedule, implementation, configuration control and physical end
product.
CM Performance Indicators – Flip Charts – CM PI Survey
Results
Facilitator -
The breakout will review the results of the industry
survey and give the breakout participants an opportunity to ask questions or
offer opinions. Hopefully coming out of the breakout will be a consistent set
of CM Performance Indicators that can be published on the CMBG website.
Digital I&C Systems Configuration Management – Flip Charts
Facilitator - David Woods, PPL Susquehanna and Jack Carey PSEG Nuclear
The proliferation of diverse digital I&C equipment for plant
upgrades and equipment replacements has challenged station personnel to develop
and implement effective configuration management methods. High level requirements and guidance provided
by industry standards are not being effectively translated into practical
methods to manage the configuration of digital I&C equipment.
Master
Equipment List – Flip Charts
Facilitator - Bobbi Jo Halvorson, Xcel Nuclear
This breakout session is intended to provide
discussion on basic CM concepts. It is
intended to help attendees share information about the development, maintenance
and use of equipment databases.
Attendees will be asked to describe their organizations approach to data
integrity and ‘ownership’ of the database, as well as its uses. This will include sharing of information
about audit results and feedback from INPO and the NRC.
Margin Management – Flip Charts
Facilitators - Keith Reinsmith, PPL Susquehanna and Mike Hayes, Exelon
The breakout will quantify the attributes of a
successful Margin Management program.
Mike Hayes of Exelon will be available to provide more details of
Exelon’s Margin Management program and answer any specific questions the
breakout participants may have.
Industry CM Ramifications of the
Facilitators –
This Breakout is intended to facilitate a forward
looking discussion to focus on the possible CM implications of investigations
and analyses that result from the industry assessment of the Japan Fukushima
Daiichi Plant event. Discussion will use
INPO Event Reports (IER) 11-1 and 11-2 recommendations and requested
information responses as a starting point to collect and categorize the results
submitted by participating INPO members to identify any CM related program or
process issues that participants need to take back to their organizations for
review and assessment. Participants should be able to discuss what actions are
being taken at their utility/organization in response to the
TUESDAY BREAKOUTS -
New Build
Fundamentals of Maintaining Virtual Plant Information – Flip Charts
Facilitators – Mike Stout and John Whitmire, Bentley Systems, Inc.
This breakout will review the “Virtual Plant”
concept and contrast it to the past document-centric methods of maintaining
information. The breakout participants will identify the potential barriers in
maintaining information in the virtual plant arena and will propose solutions
that can be used to address the barriers.
What are Attributes of a Good CM Practitioner? – Flip Charts
Facilitator - John Parler,
Issuance of industry CM guidance documents is
predicated on the assumption that the reader has a basic understanding of CM
fundamentals and some familiarity with good CM principles and practices. These
are but two of the attributes that will be discussed in this breakout. Other
attributes will be identified and discussed. Coming out of this breakout, the
CM Practitioner attributes can be posted on the CMBG webpage to serve as a
barometer and possible improvement path for interested Practitioners.
EPC/Owner Turnover – Flip Charts
Facilitator – Bob Renuart
This breakout will focus on the details of the
turnover process, including how to manage modular construction and partial
turnovers. Breakout participants representing EPCs will be expected to provide
examples of CM breakdowns during the project and possible solutions to the
problems. Breakout participants representing the Owner/Operator will be asked
to identify their expectations from the EPC during the turnover process.
WEDNESDAY
PRESENTATIONS
V-22 Configuration
Management (CM) Challenges
Bruce Oestreich, Director – Rotary Craft Systems Engineering & Integration,
Boeing Defense, Space and Security
Configuration
Management challenges exist in every industry at every level. An interesting product to consider is the
V-22 Osprey – a revolutionary tilt-rotor aircraft currently in production and
deployed in
This presentation
will relate the basics of what CM actually is; why it remains a simple concept
yet so difficult to execute successfully; and some lessons learned from
handling multiple configurations for multiple Customers that might resonate
within the Nuclear industry.
Agenda:
·
CM Challenges – What is CM?
·
Brief Program Overview to calibrate the
audience to V-22 CM
·
Complexity
at various levels
·
Why
is this so hard?
·
Lessons Learned
·
Is
anything applicable to the Nuclear Power industry?