Westinghouse Long-Term Planning Maturity Diagnostic

The Long-Term Planning Maturity Diagnostic provides a first-level diagnosis of your organization’s relative strengths and weaknesses regarding core aspects of long-term nuclear power plant planning maturity.

This tool will benchmark how mature your organization is in terms of long-term operations planning. It aids in identifying key investment areas that will boost your plant’s long-term viability and shares long-term planning best practices.

In less than 10 minutes, you will be provided insight to more accurately assess your organization’s long-term planning maturity. Please remember to view your scores to the final page.

Best Practice Benchmarks:

• We work with a single OEM that has the capability to address all aspects of licensing compliance, resulting in negligible duplication of work and minimal complications.

• We engage a partner who has the expertise to anticipate and preempt costly additional requests for information.

• We meet all required deadlines, moving the licensing process along efficiently.

Best Practice Benchmarks:

• Our asset management process allows our plant(s) to identify and bypass unnecessary cleanings, inspections, and maintenance.

• Our asset management maintenance schedules materially extend the life of essential plant assets, minimizing the need for replacement.

• We work closely with an OEM to plan for the management of traditional assets in order to benefit from cost and operational synergies.

Best Practice Benchmarks:

• Our planning process identifies supplementary investments that complement and enhance required regulatory compliance and outage optimization investments.

• We incorporate global best practices to ensure that we are most effectively allocating spend when forming a strategic investment plan.

• We ensure plant longevity is not undermined by short-term incentives when making plant investment decisions.

Best Practice Benchmarks:

• We fully integrate, derive advanced decision-making insights from, and action the data collected from our plant assets.

• We harness the abilities of digital experts to build a digital roadmap, operationalize digital advances, and derive insights from our data.

• We put timelines and benchmarks in place for the continual integration of digital sensors, data collection capabilities, and analytical tools.

Best Practice Benchmarks:

• We supplement internal expertise with cost-effective outsourced resources that provide forward-looking, cross-plant, and OEM expertise.

• We utilize digital automation systems, processes, and tools that reduce manual efforts and focus human capital on more complex, mission-critical endeavors.

• We engage in continual digital training of our employees to optimize evolving plant operations.

Best Practice Benchmarks:

• We utilize a collaborative long-term planning steering committee that capitalizes on internal and external SME expertise.

• We bundle and plan implementations in a manner that allows our organization to save on duplicated safety and condition analysis.

• We employ robust planning techniques that weigh alternative investments across various divisions to optimize ROI and plant life.

• Our executive team has a view across all divisions that incorporates or deprioritizes plant pet projects strategically.

Best Practice Benchmarks:

• We utilize predictive data to determine obsolescence risk rather than rely on historical data modeling.

• Our obsolescence management program allows our organization to effectively order the right parts at the right time, reducing the overall cost of ownership and avoiding outages due to parts shortages.

• Our capabilities are advancing such that we anticipate asset obsolescence risks to eventually no longer be an organizational challenge.

Best Practice Benchmarks:

• We have a broad and informed view of emerging technologies that can be applied to our plants (e.g., digitalization, 3D printing, and drones).

• We regularly analyze the ROI of potential technology innovation investments.

• We engage in innovative co-creation with partners to advance plant operations, improve performance, and gain additional income streams from royalties.