NRC-compliant asset management for safety-related equipment, configuration control, and surveillance testing
Nuclear power plants operate under the most rigorous regulatory environment in the world. Every maintenance activity on safety-related equipment must comply with 10 CFR 50 Appendix B quality assurance criteria, NRC inspection requirements, and INPO performance standards. IBM Maximo for Nuclear Power provides industry-specific capabilities for tech specs management, clearances, permits, surveillance testing, and corrective action programs — with complete audit trails that satisfy NRC inspectors.
Indicative year-one program ranges for enterprise Maximo + AI initiatives.
$650K - $2.5M
Typical year-1 budget for nuclear-grade configuration, surveillance, and outage controls.
10 CFR 50 Appendix B Compliance
18 quality assurance criteria covering procedures, purchased material control, corrective action, and QA records for all safety-related work.
Configuration Management
Safety-related components require as-designed, as-built, and as-maintained configuration tracking with change control documentation.
Surveillance Testing
Technical specification surveillance tests must be scheduled, executed, and documented within strict regulatory intervals.
Corrective Action Program
Every equipment issue must be evaluated for safety significance with root cause analysis and corrective actions tracked to completion.
Outage Planning Complexity
Refueling outages compress thousands of maintenance activities into 20-30 day windows with critical path dependencies.
Maximo for Nuclear Power with nuclear-specific work order workflows, clearance/tagout management, and safety-related equipment classification.
AI Capability
AI agents auto-classify work orders by safety significance and route approvals through the correct nuclear quality workflow.
Asset Configuration Manager (ACM) tracks as-designed, as-planned, and as-maintained configurations for safety-related components.
AI Capability
AI monitors configuration baselines and flags unauthorized changes or discrepancies between design documents and installed configuration.
Automated tech spec surveillance scheduling with grace period tracking, missed surveillance detection, and regulatory reporting.
AI Capability
Predictive scheduling optimizes surveillance test windows to minimize plant transients while maintaining regulatory compliance.
Maximo Scheduler + Optimizer for critical path analysis, resource leveling, and real-time outage progress tracking.
AI Capability
Machine learning on historical outage data predicts task durations, identifies emerging critical path risks, and recommends recovery actions.
80% reduction
NRC Findings
Through continuous compliance monitoring and gap detection
3-5 days shorter
Outage Duration
Via AI-optimized scheduling and critical path management
90% fewer
Config Discrepancies
Through real-time configuration baseline monitoring
40% faster
Corrective Action Time
From automated root cause analysis and pattern recognition
