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Annunciation - Building Product Team Capabilities to Support Utility Operational Improvement.
Abstract:
The purpose of this paper is to describe an AECL initiative to enhance the capabilities to
assist utilities with undertaking annunciation improvement. This initiative was undertaken
to complement a recent annunciation product upgrade, and in anticipation of developing
commercial opportunities to assist Canadian and foreign utilities with control room
annunciation improvement.
Utilities are relying more and more on external engineering product and service providers
to meet their plant support needs as they reduce in-house staffing to lower ongoing
support costs. This evolving commercial environment places new demands on product
and service providers, and provides new opportunities for increasing the proportion of
product and service provider participation in plant improvement projects.
This paper outlines recent AECL experience in the annunciation product area. The paper
discusses the rationale for product support capability improvement, discusses the
approaches undertaken, describes lessons learned, and outlines a proposed utility support
model for assisting with future annunciation improvements.
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