1. Results of Design Reviews
Hank Drumhiller
INPO, EN ADM
September 26, 2000

2. Background Design Engineering is a focus area
Reviewed six-months of evaluations
12 INPO
5 WANO
5 Design Reviews
Plan 10 Design Reviews in 2001

3. Areas for Improvement 26 EN AFIs One plant had no EN AFIs
Two plants had three EN AFIs

5. Engineering AFIs Largest number of EN AFIs were for:
Less than adequate design engineering product quality (18%)
System engineering was main focus:
Monitoring and trending (15%)
System improvement plans (7%)

7. AFI Causes Largest single contributor to EN AFIs:
Ineffective engineering management (20%)
Management fails to:
establish or communicate standards and expectations
hold engineers accountable
monitor engineers’ work

8. AFIs Causes Largest problem area facing engineering:
Less than adequate engineering work management (19%) and
Less than adequate work prioritization (14%)
Prevents engineering and the site from getting the right work completed

9. AFIs Causes Another major contributor to AFIs is:
Less than adequate engineering infrastructure
Inhibits engineer’s ability to do work
Reduces effectiveness of engineering programs, processes, and procedures

10. AFIs Causes Other major causes identified were:
Adequacy of root cause analyses and effectiveness and timeliness of corrective actions (10%)
Engineering turnover (6%)
Verbal communication within engineering (6%)

11. AFI Examples
Ineffective management of some engineering activities contributed to delays in meeting outage milestones.
Changing priorities, resource demands, budget constraints
Emergent issues and personnel changes
Engineering schedule not manloaded
Engineering internal and external communication weak
No plan to reduce engineering backlog

12. AFI Examples
Deferral of design changes, increased backlogs, and untimely updating of calculations and design basis information.
Informal EN work management
Weak performance indicators
No review of low priority work
Project resources aren’t estimated or monitored
Management doesn’t hold engineers accountable
Management didn’t fill open positions

13. AFI Examples
Modifications have been installed outside design process and untimely updates of design products.
Loss of configuration control
Cumulative effect of minor changes is unknown
No process for abandoned equipment
Management assumed risk of regulatory action
Lack of verification in fuse program
No guidance for updating calculations

14. AFI Examples
Calculations supporting design basis aren’t retrievable and assumptions used are not documented or justified.
Database created to show links didn’t include all calculations supporting tech spec or FSAR
No standard for pipe stress or hanger calculations
Old vendor info supporting calcs can’t be located
Design basis reconstitution on hold
Limited engineering involvement with industry

15. AFI Examples
Calculations for AOVs are not in place resulting in uncertainty that critical AOVs will operated as designed.
Lack of management focus
Reliance on AOV performance and testing
Failure to use industry OE

16. Conclusions Continue focus on Design Engineering
Management effectiveness
Engineering work management & priorities
Maintaining strong infrastructure
Expectations, accountability, & communication