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"The Fleet Asset Information Register (FLAIR) is an outstanding tool for knowledge management... This is markedly superior to comparable systems seen by the team elsewhere."
- from International Atomic Energy Agency report on British Energy's Equipment Reliability process

Sizewell B power stationBritish Energy plc is a part of the EDF Energy Group and manages the UK's fleet of nuclear power stations, making use of kinodb applications for key business activities including:

  • Risk Reporting - all British Energy employees have the ability to enter details of operational and other risks.
  • Risk Assessment and Management - reported risks are assessed and scored.  The application manages the assessment, escalation and cost implications of reported risks
  • Investment Programming - investments across the enterprise are recorded within the application, which is used to assess the impact (in terms of cost, risk, benefit realisation date and potential operational impact) of changes to the investment programme.  The application manages multiple phases of the investment assessment, approval and sanction process.
  • Fleet Asset Information Register (FLAIR) - information from a variety of external sources is aggregated and scored within the application to provide detailed information on asset reliability, system health assessments, attribution of losses resulting from plant failure and so on.  This module supports and provides an audit trail for a number of formal assessment processes.

... and much more.  All of these applications are implemented within a single application repository, enabling tight integration between the different functional areas - for instance, an investment planner can easily view the performance history of a system for which investment is planned, and a system health engineer can view pending and historical investments.

All 7,500 British Energy staff can access the Risk Reporting module; there are around 350 users of the Risk Assessment, Investment Programming and FLAIR functions.

Interfaces are provided from the financial accounting and maintenance management systems to enable visibility of all relevant asset information at a central point.

"The Fleet Asset Information Register (FLAIR) is an outstanding tool for knowledge management providing on-line access to a broad range of data across the fleet.  This is markedly superior to comparable systems seen by the team elsewhere.  FLAIR uses data maintained by the data owners so they are always up to date.  FLAIR also uses data extracted from [British Energy's maintenance management system].  FLAIR provides links to company risk log and investment management system.  It also captures walk down observations and system action plans."
- International Atomic Energy Agency report on British Energy's Equipment Reliability process
"The Risk and Asset Information system is delivering significant benefit to our business, enabling the sharing of data across multiple locations.   datb's ability to respond to changing business needs means that the information is both readily available and keeping pace with the needs of the user community."
- Val Kohler, Head of Asset Planning and Investment
datb was nominated for British Energy's Supplier of the Year award in 2007