Nuclear Energy
IBM Maximo Application Suite enables nuclear power operators to manage their most critical and long-lived assets with unmatched precision, safety, and compliance. By unifying predictive maintenance, digital twin modeling, secure OT integration, and robust HSE workflows, Maximo optimizes asset performance, streamlines outage planning, and helps ensure regulatory adherence—all while safeguarding operations in highly controlled environments. For nuclear operators, configuration control is not just operational best practice — it’s a licensing and safety imperative.
Maximo Application Suite
Nuclear plants operate with critical, high-value, long-lifecycle assets (e.g., reactor vessels, turbines, pumps, control systems) that require rigorous performance and degradation monitoring over decades.
Maximo Asset Performance Management (APM)
Enables real-time monitoring, lifecycle tracking, and degradation modeling for long-life nuclear assets.
Digital Twin Integration
Create digital replicas of critical components (e.g., heat exchangers, cooling towers) to simulate wear and anticipate failure scenarios.
Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM)
Uses sensor data to determine maintenance needs based on asset condition, reducing unnecessary work and extending component life.
Highly regulated environment governed by agencies like NRC (U.S.), IAEA, requiring strict adherence to safety, inspection, and documentation protocols.
Maximo Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE)
Manages safety inspections, incident investigations, and risk assessments across nuclear systems.
Permit-to-Work (PTW)
Ensures that all maintenance and inspection work follows strict protocols and is properly authorized, especially in radiological zones.
Audit Trails and e-Signatures
Support regulatory audits by maintaining traceable and immutable records, aligned with CFR 21 Part 11 (electronic records).
Maintenance activities in radiologically controlled areas (RCAs) must be planned with extra care to minimize personnel exposure and plant downtime.
Maximo Scheduler and Graphical Work Week
Enables advanced outage planning, resource optimization, and conflict resolution.
Crew and Resource Planning
Assigns the most qualified technicians to the job while limiting radiation exposure time.
Preventive & Predictive Maintenance Integration
Combines condition data, historical trends, and AI-driven forecasts to ensure that maintenance is only done when needed — and always done safely.
Nuclear operations must achieve Inherently High Reliability, with redundancy and layered risk assessment.
Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
Identify critical failure points and prevent recurrence.
Risk-Based Inspection (RBI)
Prioritizes inspections based on asset criticality and risk of failure, reducing inspection burden while maintaining safety.
Asset Criticality Indexing
Supports classification and prioritization of systems based on safety impact and operational importance.
Nuclear facilities are part of national critical infrastructure and face elevated cybersecurity requirements for operational and IT systems.
Secure OT Integration
MAS integrates with SCADA, PLC, and DCS systems with secure protocols to feed real-time data into asset models.
Zero Trust Architecture Support
Ensures that data and control interfaces comply with cybersecurity best practices.
Anomaly Detection with AI
MAS can flag unusual behavior from equipment, potentially indicating cyber-physical threats or performance deviations.
Nuclear plants face workforce attrition and retirement of experienced operators and engineers, creating gaps in institutional knowledge.
Workforce Management
Ensures only certified staff are assigned to sensitive tasks.
Knowledge Capture and Digital Work Instructions
Technicians can record best practices, troubleshooting, and procedural steps in Maximo, preserving institutional knowledge.
Mobile Work Execution
Field crews access all relevant procedures, diagrams, and safety checks from tablets in real-time, even in remote areas of the plant.
In the nuclear energy sector, spare parts and components are subject to extraordinary life cycle, quality, and traceability requirements.
Nuclear-Grade Inventory Management
Tracks serial numbers, heat numbers, quality records, engineering specs, and shelf life for each part.
Environmental and Shelf-Life Monitoring
Tracks storage conditions (temperature, humidity) and triggers requalification or retesting alerts based on time-in-storage or environmental deviations.
Spare Parts Qualification & Certifications
Supports storing and retrieving regulatory documentation, test certifications, and QA/QC reports tied directly to individual components.
Nuclear energy operations demand rigorous control over plant configuration, design changes, and supporting documentation throughout the asset lifecycle.
Change Control and Engineering Change Requests (ECR)
Manages and automates engineering change processes, ensuring each change is reviewed, authorized, and documented before implementation.
Linked Documentation Repository
Attach design drawings, regulatory permits, QA records, and safety analyses directly to asset records.
Configuration Management Module
Links components to design specs, safety analysis documentation, and change control workflows.
Add value to your operations with Maximo Application Suite
Scalability
Supports growth and integration of new technologies like IoT and AI.
Centralized Operations
Unifies asset data, maintenance workflows, and performance monitoring.
Cost Savings
Reduces operational costs through optimized asset utilization and energy efficiency.
Strategic Decision-Making
Provides actionable insights to support investment and planning.
UKAEA Enhances Asset Visibility and Maintenance with Naviam Cloud+
Naviam is supporting the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s asset management transformation with IBM’s Maximo Application Suite, powered by Naviam’s Cloud+ EAM solution. The engagement enhances asset visibility, streamlines maintenance operations, and deploys Naviam’s Fingertip mobile with SFG20 integration to automate task assignments. As a result, UKAEA benefits from improved efficiency, compliance, and operational insight across its facilities.
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