Perhaps more than any other industry, nuclear plant operations have relied on enterprise systems to ensure that approved engineering, operations and maintenance business processes are securely tracked throughout the organization. To address both the business need as well as enforce safety and regulatory compliance issues, the resulting application systems have become rigid in their design and very complex to use. Maintenance releases and “patch” revisions to these legacy systems, inhibit change and add significantly to the operating cost structure. Other on-going expenses such as training for casual users, and in some cases, creation of dual systems for contract employees during times of outage and refueling add to the cost spiral. But beyond cost, even regulatory agencies are demanding that safety-related systems, such as those that serve the Corrective Action Program, must be easier to use and more widely available to plant personnel.

The Nuclear Option – Software-as-a-Service -- On-Site!

For the nuclear community, we package our offerings as DevonWay On-Site, a pre-configured server designed to sit behind your firewall.  While still enjoying the full browser experience such as using Google for searching across your data, streaming video for help and awareness, etc., all data and software remains under your control and in compliance with your plant’s security and IT SQA procedures. All the benefits of the on-demand model.. On-Site!

 

The End of Costly Maintenance Nightmares.

Even with 20% annual maintenance fees, ERP vendors continue to deliver error prone releases that are expensive to test and maintain. At DevonWay, our goal and commitment is to provide solutions with zero defects while not requiring additional charge for software maintenance.  Our approach to providing periodic updates of new features without additional cost is a three step process: 1) full integration and testing at the factory to our designer’s satisfaction, 2) push the fully integrated, tested and accepted revision into commercial production to DevonWay On-Demand (non-nuclear) customers, and 3) only then, delivering upgrades to a pre-specified test region of Nuclear On-Site customers for internal SQA procedures. The result is the highest level of quality in the industry at the lowest possible cost. None. 

    

 

Finally, there is an affordable alternative to expensive license & maintenance fee-based software products designed to serve the needs of nuclear operations.