Areva usage of Bonita to build applications for tracking engineering changes

Building applications for tracking engineering changes inreal-time, with 400-500 simultaneous edits eachyear with Bonita

«Bonita is a quality BPM suite, highly customizable and secure, which fits perfectly into the Information Systems we already have, with no problems.»

Roger-Pierre Gallard - Engineering Unit Manager at AREVA ISD

Project Objective

Process Automation

«We needed to automate the flow of electronic documents between all actors involved in the project to chart real-time changes. We quickly found that it was possible to integrate the Bonita Engine, which brought significant added value. This aspect was more difficult with other, less easily customized proprietary solutions.»

Roger-Pierre Gallard Engineering Unit Manager at AREVA ISD

Challenges

As part of the construction of a nuclear power plant in China, Areva needed:

• a solution for tracking engineering changes in real-time during the different phases of the project
• to automate the flow of electronic documents between all actors involved in the project to chart
• real-time changes
• a tool that is flexible enough to quickly create and validate applications
• to integrate a BPM engine into a third party application

Benefits realized

Process automation and real time monitoring.

Quickly able to integrate the Bonita BPM Engine, which brought significant added value.

8 processes were modeled, automated and deployed, now used by hundreds of people to handle 400-500 simultaneous edits per year.

The application can handle change processes that can take up to a year to complete.

They enabled completely paperless processes that were previously performed manually.

Optimized processing change time.

Real-time monitoring by all stakeholders of any changes.

Bonita to improve processes for construction of evolutionary power reactors

«The application is fully deployed and the project is stable. Integrating the Bonita Engine in the internal solution enables completely paperless processes that were previously performed manually with paper, optimization of processing change time, and real-time monitoring by all stakeholders of any changes.»

Roger-Pierre Gallard - Engineering Unit Manager at AREVA ISD

Areva

With a turnover of more than € 9 billion and over 45,000 employees around the world, Areva is the world leader in nuclear power and a major player in renewable energies. The group’s offers cover every stage of the fuel cycle, the design and construction of nuclear power plants, and services for their operating reactors. Its expertise and unwavering insistence on safety make it a key player in the sector.