Outage planning in nuclear power plants - a paradigm shift from an external towards an integrated project planning tool

摘要

In nuclear power plants it is common to carry out the technical planning of the annual outage work orders in an Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) system and to schedule the outage tasks in a project planning tool. The reason for this is historical: former EAM systems did not (or just to some extend) offer the necessary functionalities to realise the scheduling of the outage; graphical support for the planning was not provided at all. Consequently, a separate planning tool was employed for scheduling the annual outage.