Bruce Power is North America’s largest nuclear generating facility, generating up to 6,550MW from 8 CANDU units.

Since becoming Canada’s only private nuclear operator in 2001, providing Ontario residents and businesses with clean, reliable, and affordable energy and life-saving medical isotopes, Bruce Power has established a solid footing and is looking forward to a dynamic future.

Currently, Bruce Power is working through life extension projects of its Units so they can operate to 2064; uprates of the existing assets; and production of life-savings medical isotopes.

Due to this long-term commitment to reliable, stable nuclear power, Bruce Power is investing in new tools and processes that will help deliver the capital investments on time and on budget, to secure this bright future.

Digital Engineering is a program that was created to transition Bruce Power to a data-centric environment with an integrated Engineering Design, Projects, and Operations toolset from the document centric approach in use today. This will allow the organization to combine new and existing tools and processes into one eco-system to see benefits across the project life cycle from “Project Initiation” to “Project Closeout”.

The partner selected for this transformational effort is AVEVA. Bruce Power is deploying AVEVA tools as an end-to-end integrated solution, including: AVEVA AIM (and ISM), Point Cloud Manager, Unified Engineering (AVEVA Engineering, E&I, P&ID, E3D), and Enterprise Resource Management. 

This presentation will focus on the following:

• Who is Bruce Power, focusing on our unique position with long term investment through refurbishments and supply of life-changing medical isotopes
• Why we needed to change the way we worked (touching on organizational challenges that resulted in us looking at technology + business case/targets)
• Why we selected AVEVA and waht they are bringing to the table to help us meet our objectives 

• KPI’s: Data retrieval savins up to 50%; Engineering modification savings up to 25%; Field execution (installation) savings up to 10%; Project handover/turnover savings up to 80%

• Our deployment approach, including:

  • Working with AVEVA and key partners to set the foundation, including benchmarking and roadmap/strategic approach

  • Modular deployment of the tools, targeting high value use cases

  • Starting with a large integration of AIM into our existing enterprise systems as a foundation (integration with Maximo, 1M documents from our document management system, PI Vision); Reduce the number of systems to access our asset data from 5 to 1; Start with a common enterprise class library for consistency and quality of data (CFIHOS ++); Digitize Operational flowsheets and processes; Automated document-to-tag relationships; Connecting EAM and DMS data with operational data from PI vision

• Laser scanning approach using AVEVA PCM and how it will help drive immediate value while enabling future value across the organization

• Where do we plan on taking this next -> Future integration of Unified Engineering, specifically managing all our equipment tags in AVEVA Engineering and reduction of tasks

• Immediate value we are seeing, including:

  • User adoption trends for AVEVA AIM and PCM strong (charts can be provided, associating to cost savings from data retreival)

  • Data retrieval for certain documents reduced down to seconds

  • New use cases being identified, such as Emergency Response Organization finding data quickly during emergency drills

  • Document-to-tag process reducing costs on project close-out (example on a large capital project reducing cost up to $400K)

  • Fast and easy search functionality supporting user adoption

  • Automated features reducing effort for legacy data transition