CUSTOMERS

CHAMPS solutions are based on the expertise in the processes that drive our customers’ operations, resulting in a customer base from varied industries, government, and educational institutes. Organizations, be they small businesses, midsize companies or large enterprises, have successfully deployed CHAMPS to reduce inefficiencies, get closer to their customers and improve their bottom line profits. A few of the CHAMPS customers are profiled here:

BECHTEL NATIONAL INC.
CHAMPS Software has been working with the U.S. Department of Energy since January 2003 on one of this country’s largest environmental cleanup projects. CHAMPS has partnered with Bechtel National, Inc. along with prime subcontractor Washington Group International both of whom have been chosen by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of River Protection to design, build and commission a radioactive waste treatment plant on a 65-acre site.

The Hanford Site is the largest (586 square miles) of three original defense production sites founded in WWII as part of the Manhattan Project. The government acquired the land in 1943 to build large industrial facilities to produce plutonium, which served a vital role in our nation’s defense strategy. Hanford’s mission expanded during the Cold War Era to include activities related to research and development of peaceful uses of atomic energy. Most of the support structures were built between 1943 and 1963 including, nine plutonium production reactors, five reprocessing facilities and 900 additional support facilities and radiological laboratories. Over its 40 years of operations, the Hanford site has produced about 64 metric tons of plutonium which is two thirds of all the plutonium produced for government purposes in the United States.

The Richland Operations Office is responsible for cleaning up the balance of the Hanford weapons production legacy which includes, spent nuclear fuel, remaining plutonium, all buried and solid wastes, and various site facilities. The waste which is currently stored in 177 huge underground tanks at the Hanford Site will be treated and converted to a glass waste form using a process known as vitrification. Once immobilized, the high-level radioactive waste will be shipped to a federal geologic repository for permanent disposal. The government’s vision is to shrink the site footprint from 586 square miles to 75 square miles.

CHAMPS involvement at the Hanford Site is varied. Currently CHAMPS software solutions are being used to support The Office of River Protection’s management of waste retrieval and stabilization of the 177 underground waste tanks. In addition, CHAMPS is being used for the engineering and construction of the waste treatment plant. CHAMPS will also play a significant role in managing the daily maintenance and operations of the plants equipment, materials and processes once in operation.
 

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CITY OF TALLAHASSEE
The city of Tallahassee's Electric company serves approximately 90,000 Tallahassee households and businesses with electric power. The system covers a 221-square mile territory and utilizes over 170 miles of transmission lines. The system's total generating capacity of 512 megawatts is adequate to meet Tallahassee's present peak electric demand, and future expansion s planned to assure that Tallahassee's electric system keeps pace with the community's growth.

The City of Tallahassee uses CHAMPS at three locations in Florida:
Hopkins Power Plant, Tallahassee Water and Sewer, and Purdom Generating Station.

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QUAKER OATS
For More than 100 years Quaker Oats has been an icon in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Encompassing more than 45 acres and 1.9 million square feet under roof makes the Cedar Rapids Plant the largest Cereal mill in the world. Every day, more than 800 personnel across three shifts representing four different unions produce ready-to-eat-oatmeal and grits as well as Aunt Jemima syrup. The mill also makes grains to supply sister Quaker Oats plants.

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SCANA
The Virgil C. Summer nuclear power station occupies a site near Jenkinsville, South Carolina. The Monticello reservoir provides cooling water and feeds a pumped storage unit. The V.C. Summer station has one Westinghouse pressurized water reactor.

A request to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to obtain a construction and operating license for a second, and possibly third reactor was submitted in early 2006. The site owners have chosen the Westinghouse AP 1000 design for the new reactors. This action comes after the recent successful completion and approval of a license extension on unit one, taking the license expiration from 2022 to 2042.

CHAMPS EAM has been the Maintenance Management solution of choice for V.C. Summer nuclear power station throughout the plants entire history. The longstanding relationship between V.C. Summer nuclear power station and CHAMPS has spanned more than three decades and four software operating platforms. Currently, CHAMPS’ oldest client has deployed CHAMPS flagship Enterprise Asset Management solution as a mission critical application for Condition Reporting, Maintenance, Inventory Control, Procurement and Safety Management.

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WESTINGHOUSE
Westinghouse designed, built and manages the Department of Energy's Waste Isolations Pilot Plant (WIPP), a repository for transuranic radioactive waste from the nation's commercial and defense nuclear programs. Transuranic waste includes tools, plastic, laboratory clothing, rubber gloves and other such items contaminated with man-made radioactivematerials. The transuranic waste is sent to WIPP in the Transuranic Packaging Transporter (TRUPACT), a reusable shipping container certified by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
The repository, located 2,150 feet deep in New Mexico salt beds, employs about 650 operators, engineers and other technical personnel at the 16-square-mile site. Located in southeastern New Mexico, 26 miles east of Carlsbad, project facilities include disposal rooms excavated in an ancient, stable salt formation, 2,150 feet (almost half a mile) underground.

Westinghouse CHAMPS Fleet System

Westinghouse TRU Solutions has implemented CHAMPS' Fleet Maintenance System at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico. The CHAMPS Fleet application is used to maintain the 54 TRUPACT units that are currently in service. The application tracks the lot numbers associated with inventory levels at all sites. When the units arrive at WIPP, they are maintained as necessary and cleaned for reuse. The CHAMPS equipment, preventive maintenance, work order, purchasing and inventory components are implemented to accomplish the work and retain the maintenance history. The CHAMPS fleet system also helps optimize the inventory levels of the TRUPACTS at all facilities.
Westinghouse currently uses the CHAMPS Fleet Maintenance system at their Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, NM.

http://www.wipp.energy.gov/index.htm

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