DALLAS, May 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Jacobs (NYSE:J)
was selected to provide asset management solutions to the Nuclear
Decommissioning Authority (NDA), the public body in charge of
cleaning up legacy facilities in the U.K.
Under the four-year contract, Jacobs and its strategic supplier,
PA Consulting, will support the NDA on the implementation of its
asset management strategy, applying new digital decision-making
tools to improve efficiency and reduce operational costs on
nuclear-licensed sites in the NDA estate.
"We are deploying tactical delivery capability to support the
NDA's implementation of its asset management strategy," said Jacobs
Critical Mission Solutions International Senior Vice President
Clive White. "Harnessing our deep
domain experience and best practices, combined with our
data-driven, digitally-enabled solutions, we will help the NDA
drive improvements and secure better outcomes."
The NDA is responsible for decommissioning 17 nuclear sites
across England, Wales and Scotland, some dating back to the 1940s. These
include Sellafield Ltd, Europe's
most complex nuclear site, the first generation of Magnox power
stations, the U.K.'s low-level waste repository in West Cumbria, the Dounreay former fast-reactor
research site in Scotland and
other research and fuel facilities.
Jacobs and PA Consulting are already working with Sellafield Ltd
to introduce a new approach to asset management through use of
digital decision-making tools for optimizing the reliability and
availability of critical assets such as utilities, cranes and
batteries. This involves installing sensors on the equipment to
record data. A digital twin is then created which generates
information to improve decision making so that the equipment can be
managed more efficiently and at lower cost.
"Our asset management approach integrates process,
organization, technology and information with a move from
predictive to condition-based maintenance on critical nuclear
assets," said PA Consulting's Head of Nuclear Julianne
Antrobus.
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