Advancing Continuous Improvement

DevonWay redefines continuous improvement with a suite of products that strengthens safety culture, streamlines regulatory compliance, improves operational performance, and yields new efficiencies that lower operating costs. The DevonWay Continuous Improvement Suite supports and advances corrective action, problem identification and resolution (PI&R), operating experience, human performance improvement, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), trend analysis, operational assessments, employee recognition, and root-cause analysis.

Strengthening Safety Culture

With the DevonWay Continuous Improvement Suite, organizations measure, manage, and report on performance gaps and respond promptly to internal oversight and external regulatory findings. DevonWay products use business rules to implement customer-specific functionality, interfaces, and workflows that meet the exact business requirements of each organization's processes while trending against safety-culture principles.

Improving Operational Efficiency

The Continuous Improvement Suite improves operational efficiency while helping organizations achieve the highest levels of safety and reliability. DevonWay Continuous Improvement products are designed to address the needs of regulated process industries while meeting the individual requirements of each implementation – without the inconvenience and cost of unnecessary features.

The DevonWay Continuous Improvement Suite pulls together the many types of data required by continuous improvement processes, saving potentially hundreds of hours per quarter. Ensuring timely awareness and action, DevonWay products route actions and relevant information through appropriate workflows. DevonWay products work independently or together in any combination, and they integrate with existing EAM and other systems of record. They provide auditability and regulatory reporting while adapting to changes as processes and regulations evolve.

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For more information on how DevonWay can help your plant advance continuous improvement and strengthen safety culture, please contact us. Click on any product below to read more about it. Click here for a pdf brochure.

ActionWay™ provides comprehensive Corrective Action Program (CAP) management and Problem Identification and Resolution (PI & R) support. It supplies the flexible, exacting CAP functionality lacking in traditional Asset and Work Management systems while integrating with these and other systems of record. ActionWay awareness alerts notify responsible individuals and teams of changing conditions so that they can take informed action. ActionWay's easy-to-use, configurable screen layouts, workflow, and role-based security facilitate management of Incident and Condition Reporting, Corrective Actions, Operability Assessments, Reportability Evaluation for Regulatory Events, and Trend Coding.

AssessmentWay™ ensures that self assessments are structured with the appropriate level of departmental involvement and program oversight during planning, preparation, and execution. AssessmentWay workflow manages timely implementation and follow-up. As part of the self-assessment process, AssessmentWay automatically creates formatted assessment reports to store in your document management system and forward to regulatory agencies. It speeds interview set-up with reusable interview questions and ad-hoc questions you can add any time.

CauseWay™ advances effective, high-quality root cause analysis of cross-cutting issues and generates required documentation and reports for management and nuclear reporting authorities. CauseWay's analysis and reporting tools support root, apparent, and simple cause evaluations initiating from condition reports. CauseWay enables capture, tracking, analysis, trending, and management of the root-cause evaluation process. It delivers comprehensive and up-to-date final reports in a standardized, rich-text template for distribution and archiving.

CultureWay™ aggregates and correlates data across many sources to communicate the health of nuclear site safety culture to plant leadership. CultureWay creates a Safety Culture repository for monitoring, measuring, and reporting the Site Nuclear Safety Culture Process using individual INPO Safety Culture Principles & Attributes, as described in NEI 09-07 guidelines. CultureWay's reports correlate data and communicate periodic results to the Nuclear Safety Culture Monitoring Panel.

DashWay™ manages data collection, generation, internal review workflow, and publication of site- and department-level Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) based on data from virtually any source. DashWay Performance Indicators act as a window into the infrastructure, providing managers and responsible individuals with the awareness they need to recognize and monitor trends and take appropriate actions. DashWay automates KPI functions and provides instant access to charts and matrices with drill-down for analysis and roll-up for a station-wide view. It creates formatted Report Books on demand or on a schedule.

ExperienceWay™ enables plants to gather, route, and review industry Operating Experience (OE) – including internal lessons learned, near misses, and other knowledge captured – from INPO and other sources. With ExperienceWay, plants automatically receive daily INPO OE and manage internal review, assignment, evaluation, and response activities. ExperienceWay generates required actions based on evaluation response and aids assessment of OE severity and applicability. ExperienceWay archives OE for easy search and, optionally, reference from related ActionWay condition reports and DashWay performance indicators.

ObservationWay™ is the Observation and Human Performance solution that promotes a strong safety culture. ObservationWay incorporates industry best practices to transform new or existing observation programs from passive repositories into drivers of continuous improvement, efficiency, and safety. With ObservationWay, nuclear human-performance teams can actively manage observation requirements and effectively trend and measure the impact of observation activity in their plants, within fleets, and among fleets to identify station-wide performance gaps and assess effectiveness of process-change activities. ObservationWay makes it easier and faster to enter observations; it tracks each observation and assigns appropriate review and follow-up tasks. ObservationWay integrates with ActionWay and other condition reporting systems to generate condition reports from observations and associate observations with existing condition reports.

TrendWay™ helps identify plant-wide and fleet-wide trends early for immediate action. TrendWay enables analysis of plant-wide, fleet-wide, and industry-wide data from virtually any source, including CAP, INPO OE, Observations, and Assessments. TrendWay increases safety by automating your plant's unique methodology for periodic trend analysis; processes that used to take weeks now take less than a day. TrendWay speeds ad-hoc analysis with intuitive search tools that give results with just a few clicks — no special technical skills required.

Continuous improvement Plug-Ins provide functionality you can add to any DevonWay Continuous Improvement product to advance continuous improvement of your plant or entire fleet. Continuous Improvement Plug-Ins include Safety Recognition & Rewards, Track & Trace, Scantron Observation Entry, and others that we configure just for you.