Computerized Procedures: Standards and Guidelines for Procedure Description, Presentation and Interaction

The new three year program of the Halden Project (2009-2011) has reopened studies on computerized procedures focusing on the exploits that are afforded by standardized procedure descriptions. Such exploits includes facilitation of procedure design, maintenance, execution, presentation and interaction. The associated socio-technical composition is one important factor influencing the NPP safety and operation efficiency. For this reason procedures and adjoining supportive solutions should be the focus of sustained improvements. Design of such computerized procedure systems is exigent type of work and the existence of standards and guidelines will probably in most cases facilitate the work such as the work to be performed by the utilities and the safety authorities. One purpose of this workshop is to share opinions on the potentials and challenges regarding future work within this area.
Contact

Bjørlo, Brit-Kari

Department Secretay

 
When
Feb 11, 2011
from 05:05 PM to 05:05 PM
Where

Objective and scope

Some of the objectives of the workshop are:

  • Review recent trends on procedure development and management, primarily within the NPP industry but also in other comparable trades.
  • Share views on the usefulness of existing guidelines when it comes to designing and licensing computerized procedure systems.
  • Human factors issues relating to computerized procedures, e.g. level of automation, dealing with (partially) unavailable I&C, switching to back-up system (e.g. paper based procedures)
  • Review current activities to develop and improve computerized procedure guidelines. Several guidelines are in existence today but to what extent are they useful when building and licensing computerized procedure systems?
  • Review tools that may be applied to facilitate procedure development and management and identify requirements on the description arising from the application of these tools.
  • Discuss whether the relationship between procedure descriptions and other types of plant description should affect the procedural description to any extent or quality.
  • Review current or planned standardization efforts regarding procedures or related descriptions. Nominate preliminary requirements to a possible future procedure description standard.
  • Nominate qualities of an adequate standardization process leading up to the definition of a standardized procedure description.
  • Advice on the role of the Halden Project regarding development of procedure description standards and  computerized procedure implementation guidelines>

As is the case when developing other operator support systems, it is highly recommendable to put the work to develop computerized procedure solutions in a holistic perspective. This is of concern both when describing the procedures and when designing the associated computerized supportive solutions. One of the extreme consequences of such a mindset is that all kind of plant descriptions (not only procedural) should be founded on one single plant description formalism. Even though such a goal is very ambitious, it facilitates the integration of all kinds of plant description and their corresponding computerized solutions. Furthermore, this holistic perspective should not be restrained to procedure description. It should also be applied with regard to the procedure presentation and interaction. This perspective is of high concern in many control room upgrade projects today where the designed solution is a hybrid control room. In such situations it is important to assert that the resulting presentation and interaction solutions is sufficiently in agreement.

Organisational Information


The workshop will take place at Hotel Prestige  in Trnava, the Slovak Republic on the 14th and 15th of May 2009 immideatly succeeding the HPG meeting thus making it convenient for HPG members to participate to the workshop.  The cost of the accommodation at hotel Prestige is 74€ per night incl. breakfast to be covered by the workshop participants. This rate is guaranteed by a block reservation and we ask participants to indicate in the registration form if they want to use the proposed accommodation. As usual no conference fee will be requested from participants to this workshop.
Participants are kindly asked to register before April 30  preferably by making use of the enclosed Registration Form, in the menu to the right.
For any further information on the scope of the workshop, please contact Svein Nilsen (email: Svein.Nilsen@hrp.no or phone +47 95805485). For further information on practical arrangements, please contact Mrs. Brit-Kari Bjørlo, telephone: +47 69 21 22 53, telefax: +47 69 21 24 60, E-mail: Brit.Kari.Bjorlo@hrp.no.
The participants will receive a detailed programme and additional information in due time before the meeting.

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