The 2017 Procedure Symposium held June 20–22 at the Clearwater Opal Sands Resort was a great success!
In attendance were 85 procedure professionals and managers representing the following industries and organizations:
- United States, United Kingdom, and UAE commercial nuclear power plants
- U.S. DOE nuclear sites
- Modular reactors
- Fossil fuel generation
- Electric transmission
- Idaho National Laboratory
- NASA
- EPRI
- National security vendors
- Electronic work package developers
- Crane & railway services
- Procedure writing, technology services
The symposium offered numerous sessions, including:
- Electronic work packages
- Next generation procedures
- Level of detail and aging work force
- Backlog reduction
- Procedure team leadership
- Standard design process
- Procedures 101
- Procedure upgrades
- AP 907-005 standards
- Procedure review process
- Procedure templates
- Centralized procedure groups
- Error reduction
- Operating procedures
- Administrative procedures
- Maintenance procedures
- DOE procedures
- Oil & gas procedures
- NASA processes and procedures
- Continuing training
- Procedure trends
- PPA instructor forum
In conjunction with the symposium, a full three-day PPA procedure writer certification class was also provided.