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.