Plant work flow mapping pays off - a standardized corner stone to efficient nuclear plant engineering management

The methodology is described of a development project established in June 1988 at the Power Plant Engineering Division of Imatran Voima Oy (IVO) company. One part of the quality management development project was the creation of a standardized engineering work flow aiming at cost and time savings in constructing nuclear power plants. The next step and level in the work flow development was to divide various phases into disciplines or products according to the company practice. The third step was the creation of task flow diagrams. Tasks belonging to certain activities were analyzed and described as to their inputs, input data supplier, results and customer (internal or external). Thus a harmonized basis for a uniform working culture was formed. The most important results are the increase in productivity and quality through common language, decrease in misunderstandings, errors, discrepancies, cost and timely delivery of all engineering products. (Z.S.). 4 figs