Software aids plant management

An integrated computer-aided engineering (CAE) system can be a useful tool, assisting engineers with many engineering and operational activities. It can also be used to manage the massive amount of information created throughout the life of a plant. Duke Power Co. and EA Systems Inc. have developed...

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Published inPower engineering (Barrington, Ill.) Vol. 96; no. 11; pp. 25 - 26
Main Author WINIGER, T
Format Magazine Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Tulsa, OK PennWell 01.11.1992
Clarion Events, Ltd
Subjects
990200 > Mathematics & Computers
990300 > Information Handling
Access to information
Applied sciences
AUTOMATION
CAE
Case studies
Computer aided engineering
COMPUTER CODES
COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN
CONSTRUCTION
DESIGN
Electric power plants
Electric utilities
Energy
Energy. Thermal use of fuels
Exact sciences and technology
Fission nuclear power plants
GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
Industrial engineering
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Installations for energy generation and conversion: thermal and electrical energy
Integrated approach
MAINTENANCE
Nuclear power plants
ON-LINE MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS
ON-LINE SYSTEMS 240100 > Power Systems > (1990-)
OPERATION
POWER SYSTEMS
POWER TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION
Productivity
RELIABILITY
Software
United States > US
Boiler
Nuclear power plant
Control system
Software
Maintenance
Modeling
Computer aided design
Nuclear reactor
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Summary:An integrated computer-aided engineering (CAE) system can be a useful tool, assisting engineers with many engineering and operational activities. It can also be used to manage the massive amount of information created throughout the life of a plant. Duke Power Co. and EA Systems Inc. have developed a CAE system for the design, construction, and operation of power plants. Duke Power began using the system to help manage plant design modification projects in 1988. Recently, the utility developed a modeling program for one of its nuclear power plants. By storing plant informantion in a central repository, search times are reduced because information is easier to find. Productivity benefits also are anticipated by creating several required documents from the common base of information. Plans are to continue to expand the system to support Duke's operating plants with an emphasis on identifying operations requirements for plant information.
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ISSN:0032-5961