TY - GEN
T1 - Simulation-based optimization of resilient communication protocol for nuclear power plant outages
AU - Zhang, Cheng
AU - Sun, Zhe
AU - Tang, Pingbo
AU - St. Germain, Shawn W.
AU - Boring, Ronald
N1 - Funding Information:
This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Nuclear Engineering University Program (NEUP) under Award No. DE-NE0008403. DOE?s support is acknowledged. Any opinions and findings presented are those of authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of DOE.
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© Her Majesty the Queen in Right of United Kingdom 2018.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - During Nuclear power plant (NPP) outages, communications between outage participants (e.g., workers, managers, engineers) can be tedious and error-prone due to complicated organization of outage processes and crews, the extremely busy schedule with a 10-minute level of detail, and many people working in the field. Therefore, precisely predicting and controlling the time wasted during communications and remedying miscommunications can improve the NPP outage productivity. A communication protocol is a set of rules defining the organization structures, timing, channel, and content of communication according to the information transition needs of a workflow. In order to reduce the time wasted and ineffective information transition due to human errors in communications, the authors propose a communication protocol optimization according to the as-planned workflow. This optimization study evaluates how different communication protocols in an outage workflow will influence the time wasted under the influence of human errors and task duration uncertainties. The simulation results indicate that the proposed method can provide a reliable reference of improving the communication protocol in NPP outage workflows.
AB - During Nuclear power plant (NPP) outages, communications between outage participants (e.g., workers, managers, engineers) can be tedious and error-prone due to complicated organization of outage processes and crews, the extremely busy schedule with a 10-minute level of detail, and many people working in the field. Therefore, precisely predicting and controlling the time wasted during communications and remedying miscommunications can improve the NPP outage productivity. A communication protocol is a set of rules defining the organization structures, timing, channel, and content of communication according to the information transition needs of a workflow. In order to reduce the time wasted and ineffective information transition due to human errors in communications, the authors propose a communication protocol optimization according to the as-planned workflow. This optimization study evaluates how different communication protocols in an outage workflow will influence the time wasted under the influence of human errors and task duration uncertainties. The simulation results indicate that the proposed method can provide a reliable reference of improving the communication protocol in NPP outage workflows.
KW - Agent-based modeling
KW - Communication protocol
KW - Human error
KW - Nuclear power plant outages
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-60645-3_3
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-60645-3_3
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85023195660
SN - 9783319606446
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 20
EP - 29
BT - Advances in Human Error, Reliability, Resilience, and Performance - Proceedings of the AHFE 2017 International Conference on Human Error, Reliability, Resilience, and Performance, 2017
A2 - Boring, Ronald Laurids
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - AHFE 2017 International Conference on Human Error, Reliability, Resilience, and Performance, 2017
Y2 - 17 July 2017 through 21 July 2017
ER -