has more than 24 years of expertise creating affordable custom software solutions improving operational procedures and safety conditions for nuclear plants, industrial facilities and educational institutions. Our user friendly product line originated with a desire to improve the way our clients perform.

 

Greater operational efficiencies, budget cost reductions and improved safety. We help you to bridge the gap between a great vision and seamless execution.
 
Client Description
A multi-state energy company in the Eastern United States chooses S&W Technologies to meet its needs for an asset management software, picture cataloging and planning system.

Profile

This large energy company has operations from Virginia through New England and the Midwest.  It operates four nuclear power stations across its fleet.

Customer Challenges

  • Significant levels of radiation and other hazardous exposures and increased non-productive labor hours associated with  the following activities:
    • Finding assets to be serviced and maintained
    • Performing "walk-downs" during the planning process and manual picture cataloging
  • Inability to locate critical components within the plant for preventive maintenance, repair, asset management, and disaster recovery purposes.
  • Inability to provide asset location information to outside contractors so they can efficiently plan work and reduce overall costs
  • Inability to provide First Responders with critical plant visual layout information when an emergency arises
Benefits and Key Differentiators
  • With Site-Wise the plants now have pictures of asset locations cataloged and easily accessible to all plant staff so that they can instantly find the components they need to work on.
  • Each component is linked to a floor plan map showing its exact location in the plant
  • Any number of pictures can now be cataloged for each component
  • Real-time hazardous exposure rates can now be linked to any picture informing the users of the hazardous levels in the area before they enter the area
  • Users can now search for components a variety of ways including by ID number, system, type, etc.
  • Contractors can access the Site-Wise system through a secure web interface to pre-plan their maintenance and installation activities
  • First Responders have instant access to critical, visual plant information so they can plan their response when an emergency arises
FAQ
  • Reduced hazardous exposure to employees and contractors
  • Reduction in hours due to ability to locate components instantly and examine the work area allowing proper preparation and contingency planning
  • Decreased costs (up to $1,000,000 annually) due to decrease in labor hours expended and liabilities from hazardous exposures