Tight integration of computerized procedures with plant information at the South Texas Project

Conference · Thu Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 1996

OSTI ID:268107

Brtis, J S ^[1]; Green, T ^[2]

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1. Sargent and Lundy, Chicago, IL (United States). Information Technologies Services
2. Houston Lighting and Power, Bay City, TX (United States). South Texas Project Electric Generating Station

This paper describes a unique undertaking that is underway at Houston Lighting and Power`s South Texas Project (STP). The paper presents an information upgrade project that uses expert system technologies to computerize design change procedures and to tightly integrate the resulting on-line, interactive procedures with the on-line information that design change activities use and generate. This effort will show how procedure computerization can leverage the large investments in plant data. The expected benefits include reduced costs and improved quality of design change work, plus a significant reduction in the burden of configuration management that comes from design changes. Both process computerization and the integration of process with data are being implemented at STP. This work is part of a major migration of information from a mainframe to a LAN platform. This paper will be of greatest interest to those involved in: (1) configuration management, (2) coordinating information to support design change procedures, (3) plant information management, and (4) business process reengineering.

• OSTI ID: 268107
• Report Number(s): CONF-960306--; ISBN 0-7918-1226-X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
DATA BASE MANAGEMENT
DECISION MAKING
EXPERT SYSTEMS
INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
LOCAL AREA NETWORKS
MODIFICATIONS
ON-LINE SYSTEMS
SOUTH TEXAS PROJECT-1 REACTOR
SOUTH TEXAS PROJECT-2 REACTOR