Nuclear Knowledge Management
Nuclear Knowledge is not only about acquisition, but use the knowledge acquired and maintained in the NKM system must be utilized in NPP plant processes and business applications to be of practical value.
This practical application has the following general goals:
- Maximize efficiency, minimize rework and increase standardization
- Quickly and easily store and access the right knowledge and data
- Create an information knowledge infrastructure for knowledge reuse
- Quickly assimilate new mergers/acquisitions and make new expertise available to organization
- Learn more quickly from successes and failures
- Easily retain useful knowledge and avoid “brain-drain” as staff leave or retire
- Embed Knowledge Management into key work processes to ensure ongoing learning is integrated into how we do business.
- Become an organization and culture where people want to share and create knowlede.
Nuclear Knowledge Lifecycle
The major task is to find and convert the corporate, tribal and tacit experience and knowledge base of the organization into accessible and usable media and formats by:
- Identify and Acquire
- Knowledge can be acquired and stored in several ways. Tacit and research information may be gathered and sorted through interviews and missions as per IAEA TECDOC 1586, “Planning and Execution of Knowledge Management Assist Missions for Nuclear Organizations”. Tacit knowledge can be captured in purpose interviews or by review of work results.
- Store and Catalogue
- Access
- Distribute
- Search
- Manipulate, Migrate and Convert
- Maintain
The knowledge should fit into context of the NPP, and should not be generic or too vendor-specific. Vendor information changes, and requires a different mechanism to collect and maintain, such as the vendor manual program at the NPP.
- NKM Tools
- Wikis
- Go-Bys
- Technical Standards
- Expert Directory and Locator
- Lessons Learned (Self-Assessment and QA programs)
Figure : Nuclear Knowledge Lifecycle, including sources, handling and disposition
Using the latest IT technology and tools, ArchimedESS team develops and supports focused KM applications for Nuclear Power Plants - from the initial content capture, trough authoring the application to portal hosting and customers support. These KM applications are certified by IAEA both on the content level and distribution model, in order to conform the regulations and copyright requirements.
Technology used in content creation and management for KM at our company is based on the industrial standards for digital content creation, management and distribution - Adobe Flash, XML, Microsoft Silver Light, as well as SharePoint LMS and open source Joomla portal solutions.