Empowering Process Through Technology

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Discover how Trinoor’s TAShelix is driving innovation and resilience in security.

What You'll Learn

In this white paper:

How modern security frameworks support plant integrity from commissioning through sustainment
Common vulnerabilities in legacy IT and OT environments—and how to patch them strategically
The role of proactive access control, secure mobility, and integrated workflows
Why TAShelix provides an agile foundation for regulatory compliance and operational readiness

Data Integrity

Cost and schedule impacts

Prevent manipulation, tampering, or unverified data injection

Seamless Integration

Establishment of workflows and related processes

Link security layers across your digital work packages and legacy systems

Secure Mobility

Integration of
workflows with critical documentation

Empower field workers with encrypted access, even offline

Compliance at Speed

Information Security

Align with standards like NERC CIP, NIST, and IAEA

Low-Disruption Deploymentparties

Regulatory relationships

Modernize infrastructure without halting operations

Obstacles

Lack of maintenance information

Leveraging advanced maintenance analytics requires a complete history of maintenance. Owner operators have realized that maintenance begins at manufacturing and continues by the AE & EPC firms to turnover. This lack of maintenance history caused advanced analytics to deliver inadequate predictive capabilities.

Other inefficiencies

Owner operators must have material records (e.g., materials and related purchasing documentation and warranties) and must create training and certification processes for users of the system to avoid errors and achieve compliance with regulation and industry standards. These must be populated either from the architect and engineer information systems or manually created.

A Digital-First Approach: Empowering IT Engineers and Chief Nuclear Operators for the Next Era.

Built for the Nuclear Industry

As we enter this revitalized and reimagined nuclear age, the industry must leverage today’s modern information technology and plan for a future that alleviates these well-known issues. This process requires forethought about the information technology landscape at each phase of the new-build project. It also emphasizes the need to capture and maintain critical information, ensuring it remains seamlessly useful at the turnover point.

The Digital-First Strategy

A digital-first strategy is the recommended approach for nuclear new-build projects. This approach requires that data, workflows, and business processes related to plant construction be digitalized and maintained in a manner that supports the technology systems to be used by the owner operator throughout the 7+ year project lifecycle. Digitalization provides additional value by delivering information seamlessly and in near real-time to the software that will be used by the owner operator.

A commitment to digitalization is one of the keys to enable the successful turnover of the plant in a manner that will satisfy regulators that the plant is ready for productive service. Digitalization on its own creates efficiencies and offers the opportunity to reimagine traditional business models and workflows in the context of future plant operation and maintenance during construction.

Another key aspect of the digital-first strategy is to implement a standardized user interface that serves throughout all phases of construction and turnover. This approach reduces training and change-management issues for plant personnel. Having a common user interface keeps everyone aligned and facilitates early problem identification before the critical commissioning turnover to plant operation and maintenance.

Advantages of Digitalization include:

Data Capture

Ensures completeness of data and workflows at turnover

Digitalization during plant construction ensures that data is captured as the plant is constructed and will not require re-entry for new software when future phases of the plant’s lifetime occur. A commitment to digitalization reduces errors and ensures that all parties to the construction, test and turnover process are working from the same information.

Compliance

Yields up-to-date workflows and processes

Commitment to digitalization of workflows ensures that compliance requirements are met, and that the connection of people, processes, equipment and tools are built with that compliance in mind. This is a critical need when considering the expected changes in nuclear safety and operations caused by the introduction of so many new nuclear technologies, such as SMR’s, and new operating standards for traditional and existing plants that are forthcoming.

Adaption

Provides a platform for agile adaptation to process and regulatory change

Digitalization of workflows and related business processes enables the adjustment to new approaches and ensures their enforcement in any phase of the new-build process. Many of these changes will require immediate and agile responses from owner operators.

Continuity

Maintains a well-documented audit trail to provide valuable feedback

Ensures that compliance is documented and usable for work analytics and issue resolution, and that the impact of changes to those processes and materials can be measured and reported.

Training

Unifies the user interface

A standardized digital interface simplifies training and compliance when new processes or materials are introduced. It reduces the risk of non-compliance and mitigates traditional implementation challenges that can accompany technological transitions.

Cost Benefits

Reduced cost and time of deployment of newly constructed plants

A digital-first strategy shortens delivery time and accelerates plant turnover and operating license acquisition. Thoughtful and comprehensive information technology approaches can significantly reduce overall project costs. While there is an initial investment to implement the digital-first program, it yields substantial long-term savings.

Enables Training

Assists regulatory training of the owner operator's personnel to utilize actual plant information.

Introducing digitalization to a plant feeds real-time data into training systems, such as simulators. This enables instructors to create lifelike scenarios for the training and instruction environment.

The Emphasis on Mobility

The most significant upgrade for Information Technology in the nuclear industry is the growing need for mobile solutions.

These solutions aim to:

Improve communications with employees and contractors
Ensure easy access to work process documentation and on-site documents
Capture relevant data, including photographs, videos, discussions, and voice notes

Workers now expect to:

Access job-related information and work orders through various devices available throughout the plant site
Utilize mobile systems (e.g., phones, tablets) even when disconnected
Have assurance that once reconnected, data will be transmitted and databases securely updated

The human interface must be adaptable to multiple device types, accommodating varying job requirements.

Enabling Digital Strategies

Digital solutions are designed to resolve the issues mentioned earlier, and to provide the common user interface that will secure the information at point of capture that can be utilized throughout the plant life cycle. Further, a digital approach is easy to use, is secure, and empowers both stationary and mobile users in multiple languages. Its data capture includes the following:

Online Forms

The capture and availability of digital forms for permits, requests and any other activity that requires some type of forms to be completed.

Document Management

The capture of documents and with indexing in SharePoint or other document management systems (via digital delivery or via scan). The data capture will include contracts, documents regarding the equipment, permits – every digital document that comes into the organization as the plant is designed and built.

Asset Maintenance

The capture of maintenance and inspection workflows (mobile) and recording maintenance activity against the equipment to ensure it is kept up, follows the warranty, even if the asset is not yet installed and operational. It must collect data provided to and collected by Dynamic Procedure applications.

Asset Tracking

The capture of equipment information as delivered by the manufacturer, including all supporting documents, location, and other relevant data. If a digital twin is developed, this will help connect the twin to plant configuration and maintenance actions through all phases of plant construction through turnover.

TRANSCENDING THE INDUSTRY

How does the "Digital-First" strategy compare to traditional IT approaches in nuclear plants?

The "Digital-First" strategy represents a transformative shift in the nuclear energy sector, contrasting sharply with traditional IT approaches.

Conclusion

Enabling the Digital-First Strategy

The ultimate toolset for the nuclear renaissance that is happening worldwide requires the following business and technological elements to be implemented from the very start:

Transformation Services supporting the development of a roadmap for owner operators to achieve a Digital-First Strategy.
Industry Process Standardization leveraged within the workflows contained in the software designed based on industry regulatory standards, such as the World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO), Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Standard User Interface used across all phases of plant design, development and turnover to operation and maintenance and eventual decommissioning. This means that while the software may change from the build to the operate phases, the user interface will remain unchanged, and the impact of software transition can be minimized.
Complete and Secure Capture of Relevant Data to ensure that turnover of the plant to the owner operator occurs seamlessly and without the expensive, time-consuming, and complex process of data transition and training or change management for employees.
Mobile Support for Employees to enable team members to accomplish their work and for the secure upload and download of data on a wide variety of devices in local languages.
Delivery Agility that enables the update and enhancement of workflows and processes to accommodate new industry regulations and standards. Considering the state of new nuclear technology such as SMR’s, these changes are likely to occur at higher frequencies than for traditional nuclear plants.
Multi-Language a solution that supports the workforce in multiple languages simultaneously through usage of localization technology within the database. The application dynamically changes screens from one language to another based on user preferences, eliminating the need for custom application for different contractors who leverage a different language than the owner operator.
Analytics to support evaluation of plant and employee performance as the plant matures, and to ensure that the plant is meeting operational goals and expectations.

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Data Intergration

Digital First: Emphasizes a unified data ecosystem, creating a "single source of truth" that enhances collaboration and operational efficiency throughout the plant's lifecycle.

Traditional IT: Often relies on siloed systems, leading to fragmented data management and increased risks of miscommunication during transitions between design, construction, and operation phases.

Lifecycle Management

Digital First: Incorporates advanced technologies like digital twins, which allow for real-time monitoring and proactive maintenance planning, improving safety and reducing costs.

Traditional IT: Typically focuses on post-construction phases with limited foresight into operational needs, resulting in reactive rather than proactive management.

Cost Efficiency

Digital First: Aims for long-term cost savings by streamlining processes and reducing the need for costly retrofits or corrections post-implementation.

Traditional IT: Often incurs higher upfront costs due to the lack of integrated systems and the need for extensive manual data reconciliation.

Collaboration

Digital First: Fosters a collaborative environment among stakeholders through shared platforms and workflows, enhancing transparency and accountability.

Traditional IT: May hinder collaboration due to disparate systems and documentation practices, leading to inefficiencies and potential errors.

Protect your digital assets, streamline compliance, and strengthen application resilience against today’s rising cybersecurity threats—all with a security-first approach built for nuclear and critical infrastructure.

INTRODUCTION

Why Security Now?

The nuclear sector is under increasing pressure to evolve its cybersecurity posture. Threats to operational technology, data integrity, and infrastructure resilience are becoming more complex—and more costly.

TAShelix Security is engineered to meet this moment. Our white paper explores how owner-operators and energy leaders can protect critical systems while empowering innovation.

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