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John previously spent 17 years working for Rolls-Royce plc. In that time he was Chief Engineer on several GT projects, Programme Director for Marine Engines Total Care and Head of Advanced Engineering for Industrial & Marine. Following Rolls-Royce, John worked for seven years for Intelligent Energy, a fuel cells start-up business, as Director of Engineering and Customer Services. He is presently acting as Chief Technical Officer for Assystem Energy & Infrastructure Ltd where his focus is on Nuclear Governance, Systems Engineering and supporting business growth through digitalisation.
Who are Assystem?
International and independent engineering company
- 3 lines of services: Project management & Engineering, Digital & Performance, Security & Safety
- Employees: 5000 worldwide, 2,500 nuclear experts worldwide
- Revenue: €400 million consolidated
- Headquarters: Paris, France, with offices in 13 countries
Nuclear is one of the few technologies that can provide a low carbon, large scale, predictable supply of electricity.
UK Nuclear Scene:
New product evolution occurs every 30/40 or 50 years, progression is far slower than that of industries such as Automotive and Aerospace.
1. Existing Fleet – Entered service 70s/80s:
- Extend the safe and economic life of the existing AGRs for 10yrs
- Keep Sizewell in safe and economic operation for 40+yrs
- An asset management and sustaining engineering challenge
2. Nuclear New Build – Will enter services 2020s:
- Hinkley Point C- complete build and commissioning inside budget and schedule
- Horizon and Nugen- complete GDA and FID and start construction
Huge technical, regulatory and supply chain complexity.
Need to build investor and operator confidence.
3. Waste Management & Decom:
- Safety is paramount
- Modernise Sellafield’s, while keeping the site operational.
- Prepare for 50year care and maintenance phase.
4. The Next Generation:
- Small Modular Reactors
- Fusion
Drivers of digitalisation throughout the nuclear sector:
What we need to do:
- Maintain safety and availability.
- Reduce cost and time to build
- Build investor confidence
We can do this by:
- Integrating design, DfM/DfA, certification, supply chain management and construction aspects.
- Removing knowledge silos- ‘one source of the truth’.
- Improving knowledge of plant performance- digital twins etc.
- Improving safety/cert’n case development
- Knowledge management- support generations of staff.
- Flexible, robust system & data architecture, with the ability to evolve over 20yrs
Implementing the change with Majenta Solutions:
Majenta is a key partner, delivering:
- Process mapping and optimisation
- Customisation (minimal amounts)
- Developing training material
- Training our trainers
- Liaison with Dassault
- Sharing the ‘launch customer experience’ with us!
Read the full Assystem Deployment Case Study.