EDF Bouchain

As part of the modernization of EDF Energy’s power plants, EDF Bouchain located in Bouchain, France became the first new generation combined cycle power plant in the world.

Because the outage period at Bouchain is only 3.5 weeks, carrying out more than 400 measurement checks with a small staff is a major challenge!

In the interests of quality, safety and durability of the installations, it was essential for the automation department to be equipped with a calibration management system capable of meeting its strict requirements. The Beamex integrated calibration system was an obvious choice in terms of automation, time-saving, monitoring, traceability and confidence in the data produced.

Because the outage period at Bouchain is only 3.5 weeks, carrying out more than 400 measurement checks with a small staff is a major challenge!

In the interests of quality, safety and durability of the installations, it was essential for the automation department to be equipped with a calibration management system capable of meeting its strict requirements. The Beamex integrated calibration system was an obvious choice in terms of automation, time-saving, monitoring, traceability and confidence in the data produced.

The services provided by Beamex made it possible to prepare all the data, procedures and tasks to be performed so that the service provider company was operational from the first day of the outage period.

The complete elimination of paper in all procedures led the team performing the calibrations to save approximately two weeks of their time.

There was no longer a need to manually input data into a third-party system (Excel type).