Throughout the nuclear facility lifecycle, information is created by knowledge workers, lessons are learned, and best practices are created and improved. The nuclear industry’s challenge is how to identify, organize, capture, and easily provide the knowledge created in the various stages of the lifecycle. The ability to identify, manage, and relate knowledge from best practices, human experience, industry communities of practice, changes to plant configuration, regulations, training, and lessons learned to stages of the lifecycle offers significant business value and impact on cost savings. The objective of a quality knowledge management program is to create a dynamic learning organization that will:
- Minimize the impact of worker mobility
- Maintain high levels of information integrity
- Reduce costs through availability of knowledge that enhances quality collaboration and minimizes impact on work schedules caused by rework and repeatable errors
eB Nuclear provides a business solution for knowledge management by leveraging current business processes and bridging information assets from all nuclear information sources together, including human behavior and performance. Many organizations are now using eB Nuclear on nuclear plant projects to support their knowledge management needs through the creation of a book of knowledge that identifies and manages knowledge that can be reused when building multiple nuclear facilities.