Managing the aging of equipment and facilities

Managing the aging of equipment and facilities

Deploy action plans and monitoring strategies for productivity, quality, and regulatory compliance, leaveraging study methodologies and expertise in equipment durability.

    • In the design phase:
      • Select critical materials and associated recommendations,
      • Define equipment and systems requiring adapted designs to facilitate maintenance and change throughout the facility life cycle
    • In the operational phase:
      • Design and deploy monitoring plans anticipating complex aging of facilities innacessible to humans,
      • Anticipate and target key maintenance interventions
    • Ensure alignment between investments, operating costs, future industrial operations and regulatory compliance
        • Conduct functional analyses to select support materials, guide equipment design, and optimize processes
        • Optimize and qualify your solutions through R&D programs (definition/monitoring studies and calculations)
        • Obtain targeted monitoring plans and expert expertise/diagnostics on your critical points thanks to:
          • Technology watch,
          • More than 50 years of experience in monitoring operating facilities (coupons and test specimens, non-destructive testing),
          • Work conducted in partnership with other industrials and/or research centers,
          • Consolidated experience through control and monitoring proposals for equipment from design phase

         

        • Recognized expertise on your equipment exposed to aggressive environments (chemical sush as nitric, hydrofluoric, sulfuric, radiochemical, thermal, and mechanical)
        • 50+ years of experience in facility monitoring, partnership projects, and consolidated expertise in equipment control, with operational and decommissioning feedback
        • Project-based organization, integrated modeling, complementary skills, studies/tests, calculations, and laboratory testing
        • Wide range of technical skills and expertise at your service (corrosion, thermal calculations, structural calculations, mechanical behaviour, irradiation behaviour, etc.)
        • Proven methodologies in Orano plants/facilities
        • Dedicated research hall and laboratory for materials testing
        • Extensive network of experts and partner laboratories, standardization committees (BAEN)
        • Orano testing resources and platform for aging topics (custom test bench development, electrochemistry, corrosion, etc.)