Rosatom’s Fuel Division TVEL has developed an equipment maintenance and repair management system (TORO – Tekhnicheskim Obsluzhivaniem i Remontom Oborudovaniya), which has been put into commercial operation at all key production enterprises. The system, developed by specialists from the digital unit of TVEL, has been implemented since 2020 in 11 large enterprises in several stages.
The TORO management system has made it possible to significantly increase the efficiency of maintenance and repair through the introduction of unified planning, accounting, control and analysis tools. It is maximally integrated into the existing circuit of the resource management (URP – Upravleniya Resursami Predpriyatii) system of the division’s enterprises. The expected economic effect from the implementation of the TORO management system is estimated at RUB120m ($1.48m) by 2035.
Paper document flow has been reduced, and manual data transfers between local information systems of enterprises and the centralised URP system of the division have been eliminated. Employees’ labour costs for searching for the necessary equipment data have been significantly reduced by creating and reconciling a database of regulatory and reference information. Automation of TORO management processes made it possible to quickly provide the status and results of completed activities, detail of financial and material costs for each piece of equipment and reporting documents, as well as consolidate data in a single information space.
The TORO management system also includes tools for planning and reflecting the results of metrological support activities for measuring instruments. Data on all equipment subject to maintenance, repair or metrological support is stored in the system and, upon request, promptly generated into a report. Advantages of the system include availability of information for all system users in accordance with assigned access rights.
“Today, hardware reliability management is coming to the fore,” said Evgeniy Garanin, Vice President for Digitalisation & Information Technologies at TVEL. “This is the basis for monitoring the entire life cycle of products and the key to the stable operation of enterprises. To solve these problems, Rosatom’s Fuel Division is carrying out large-scale digitalisation of its production processes.” He added: “Completion of the circulation of the TORO system to key enterprises is the most important step in this direction. In the next stage we plan to transfer its functionality to mobile version. The implementation of these projects creates the basis for the introduction of modern predictive modelling tools and solutions based on artificial intelligence, which will allow us to make the transition from repairs according to plan to maintenance according to condition.”
