COMS, a Nuclear Engineering Consulting Firm Providing Operational, Maintenance and Engineering Services Nationwide
Our clients, from across the nuclear energy sector and other regulated industries, face a wide range of engineering challenges, often under time and budgetary pressures. Yet, they find working with us delivers better results than going it alone. Viewed as trusted partners, they engage us when seeking new perspectives and new ways of working.
Curious, creative and collaborative, the goal of our consulting services is to make your life easier. We use our skills and experience to identify and implement solutions that increase productivity and reduce costs.
We have built our reputation throughout the nuclear sector on the quality of our people and thinking. Experienced, enthusiastic and highly skilled, once engaged, we’ll seamlessly integrate with your staff and systems. We work by understanding your challenges, owning your problems and finding solutions together.
The Key to any successful project is the smooth handover from the project team to the end user (Client).
Projects deliver capability that can be used by the Client to realise the benefits that the project was initiated for.
Operations and maintenance services projects, in collaboration with COMS, are required to deliver capability which is readily available to the end-user upon completion. This is critical for teams operating nuclear sites. Project Handover is only achieved when every element of the Project Functional Specification is complete and all required Operations and Maintenance requirements have been implemented.
COMS provide the capability to either manage the full delivery of the project handover requirements or support a project team in the completion of mandatory project documentation. This may be life time records compilation, configuration document production and update, asset transfer documentation, operations and maintenance technical documentation or other client specified requirements.
COMS are experienced in successfully handing over projects. COMS believe that a proactive approach utilising our unique handover process flow will result in an effective and efficient conclusion. By mutually agreeing success criteria early in the project with the client produces a collaborative approach to handover. However, whatever the project stage, COMS will offer a solution to its project handover requirements. COMS’ approach to delivery is to use a fit for purpose approach to ensure efficiency is built in from the start
Typical activities COMS will deliver to support Project Handover: (this list is not exhaustive)
- Operational Acceptance Certificates.
- Working Level Instructions (Operator Instructions, Maintenance Instructions, Safety Functional Tests, etc.)
- Life Time Record Documentation
- Asset Walk down and Inspection
- Transfer Certificates
- Asset Registration
- Spares Inventories
- Reservations Management
- O&M Manuals
- Maintenance Prompts
Professional Pre-Operations Support is critical to the successful delivery of any Project or Task.
Successful transition of People, Plant and Processes will result in a Soft Landing for Projects
Pre-Operations support from COMS ensures that People, Plant and Processes are fit for purpose within the scope of nuclear power plants and other regulated sites. COMS provides the consultative and engineering services that will facilitate the project’s transition into its operational phase. This will result in benefits being realised from the project investment at the earliest opportunity in accordance with its success criteria.
COMS pre-operations specialists hold a wealth of experience in this field and can guarantee a professional and thorough approach.
COMS provide the capability to either manage the full delivery of Pre-Operations requirements on behalf of the client or main contractor or can integrate with existing teams for a collaborative approach. COMS pre-operations specialists hold a wealth of experience in this field and can guarantee a professional and thorough approach.
We are experienced in scoping out the most appropriate and fit for purpose solution in order to achieve successful outcomes. COMS achieve this through strong and inclusive stakeholder engagement and managed facilitation. We investigate and gain agreement of what deliverables are required for each of the key elements for project success i.e., People, Plant, Process, Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Asset Care & Training and that these are optimised by using our unique knowledge and experience in project delivery & handover in highly regulated industries.
Key to this is the agreement of success criteria with the client in the early phases of a project to ensure a common understanding of the required end state.
Asset management identifies the appropriate requirements for the development and provision of a cost-effective operation and maintenance approach across facility, system and equipment lifecycles.
Providing whole life management of physical assets
Our long experience of nuclear energy projects and delivering operational and maintenance services gives us a very measured view of asset life modelling. This support service provides visibility to the facility owner allowing the underpinning of annual budgets, improving plant reliability and efficient use of company resources.
COMS can, in conjunction with the facility owner, construct appropriate asset management plans, develop or review maintenance arrangements, conduct reassurance inspections, provide training, gather/interrogate operations/maintenance data, monitor plant availability and conduct regular trending.
We utilise the considerable knowledge and skills of our highly experienced multi discipline team of Operations and Maintenance professionals. The team will engage, with minimal disruption, key client stakeholders to investigate, propose, develop and implement suitable asset management arrangements.
Once in place we will, if required, continue to review the arrangements to ensure they remain fit for purpose.
Provision of Professional Maintenance and Engineering support services are a crucial component in ensuring the successful lifecycle management of assets.
Applying proven engineering concepts to equipment and procedures in order to achieve better maintainability, reliability, and availability of equipment.
It is our underpinning belief that assets need to be operated and maintained in a safe and cost effective manner will provide greater benefit to both the people within the organisation and the wider business.
COMS provide the capability to support the maintenance and engineering requirements of the end user organisation by employing a collaborative working ethos which enables us to deliver a product which can be fully integrated into existing systems and processes. We also strive to help the client realise the potential of their physical assets and management systems by ensuring continuous improvement is championed. The COMS Maintenance and Engineering support teams hold a wealth of experience across a wide range of industries to ensure best practice is at the forefront of what we deliver.
COMS are experienced in scoping out the most appropriate and fit for purpose maintenance and engineering solutions in regulated industry settings. This support is key to achieving an outcome which satisfies the needs of the client. At the forefront of our delivery approach is our desire to fully understand the needs of the client and underpin our delivery output with a factual analysis of the current situation. We provide a flexible delivery approach which can be tailored to suit the needs of our client.
Our Maintenance and Engineering delivery covers, but is not exclusive to the following:
- Technical Basis of Maintenance
- Reliability Centred Maintenance
- Review of Existing Maintenance
- Risk Based Analysis
- Failure Mode & Effect Analysis
- T-RAM (Throughput, Reliability, Availability and Maintainability) Analysis
- Asset Care Assessment
- Spares and Obsolescence Analysis
- System Health Reporting
- Technical Documentation Production (Maintenance and recovery instructions etc.)
- Troubleshooting
- Gap Analysis
- Asset Lifecycle Management
- Design Review
- Asset Registration
- Master Equipment List Generation
- Drawing Update Services
- Maintenance Resource Analysis
- Maintenance Planning Services.
The Systematic Approach to Training (SAT) is a methodology for managing training programs. It is an orderly; logical approach to determining what people must know and do at a particular job or in a specific profession.
SAT begins with identifying people’s work related needs
COMS provide the capability to manage and deliver a full suite of training solutions using SAT.
This can include high level training needs analysis and training strategy proposals as well as detailed development support.
- Project Handover
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The Key to any successful project is the smooth handover from the project team to the end user (Client).
Projects deliver capability that can be used by the Client to realise the benefits that the project was initiated for.
Operations and maintenance services projects, in collaboration with COMS, are required to deliver capability which is readily available to the end-user upon completion. This is critical for teams operating nuclear sites. Project Handover is only achieved when every element of the Project Functional Specification is complete and all required Operations and Maintenance requirements have been implemented.
COMS provide the capability to either manage the full delivery of the project handover requirements or support a project team in the completion of mandatory project documentation. This may be life time records compilation, configuration document production and update, asset transfer documentation, operations and maintenance technical documentation or other client specified requirements.
COMS are experienced in successfully handing over projects. COMS believe that a proactive approach utilising our unique handover process flow will result in an effective and efficient conclusion. By mutually agreeing success criteria early in the project with the client produces a collaborative approach to handover. However, whatever the project stage, COMS will offer a solution to its project handover requirements. COMS’ approach to delivery is to use a fit for purpose approach to ensure efficiency is built in from the start
Typical activities COMS will deliver to support Project Handover: (this list is not exhaustive)
- Operational Acceptance Certificates.
- Working Level Instructions (Operator Instructions, Maintenance Instructions, Safety Functional Tests, etc.)
- Life Time Record Documentation
- Asset Walk down and Inspection
- Transfer Certificates
- Asset Registration
- Spares Inventories
- Reservations Management
- O&M Manuals
- Maintenance Prompts
- Pre-Operations, Commissioning & Support
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Professional Pre-Operations Support is critical to the successful delivery of any Project or Task.
Successful transition of People, Plant and Processes will result in a Soft Landing for Projects
Pre-Operations support from COMS ensures that People, Plant and Processes are fit for purpose within the scope of nuclear power plants and other regulated sites. COMS provides the consultative and engineering services that will facilitate the project’s transition into its operational phase. This will result in benefits being realised from the project investment at the earliest opportunity in accordance with its success criteria.
COMS pre-operations specialists hold a wealth of experience in this field and can guarantee a professional and thorough approach.
COMS provide the capability to either manage the full delivery of Pre-Operations requirements on behalf of the client or main contractor or can integrate with existing teams for a collaborative approach. COMS pre-operations specialists hold a wealth of experience in this field and can guarantee a professional and thorough approach.
We are experienced in scoping out the most appropriate and fit for purpose solution in order to achieve successful outcomes. COMS achieve this through strong and inclusive stakeholder engagement and managed facilitation. We investigate and gain agreement of what deliverables are required for each of the key elements for project success i.e., People, Plant, Process, Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Asset Care & Training and that these are optimised by using our unique knowledge and experience in project delivery & handover in highly regulated industries.
Key to this is the agreement of success criteria with the client in the early phases of a project to ensure a common understanding of the required end state.
- Asset Management
-
Asset management identifies the appropriate requirements for the development and provision of a cost-effective operation and maintenance approach across facility, system and equipment lifecycles.
Providing whole life management of physical assets
Our long experience of nuclear energy projects and delivering operational and maintenance services gives us a very measured view of asset life modelling. This support service provides visibility to the facility owner allowing the underpinning of annual budgets, improving plant reliability and efficient use of company resources.
COMS can, in conjunction with the facility owner, construct appropriate asset management plans, develop or review maintenance arrangements, conduct reassurance inspections, provide training, gather/interrogate operations/maintenance data, monitor plant availability and conduct regular trending.
We utilise the considerable knowledge and skills of our highly experienced multi discipline team of Operations and Maintenance professionals. The team will engage, with minimal disruption, key client stakeholders to investigate, propose, develop and implement suitable asset management arrangements.
Once in place we will, if required, continue to review the arrangements to ensure they remain fit for purpose.
- Maintenance & Engineering Support
-
Provision of Professional Maintenance and Engineering support services are a crucial component in ensuring the successful lifecycle management of assets.
Applying proven engineering concepts to equipment and procedures in order to achieve better maintainability, reliability, and availability of equipment.
It is our underpinning belief that assets need to be operated and maintained in a safe and cost effective manner will provide greater benefit to both the people within the organisation and the wider business.
COMS provide the capability to support the maintenance and engineering requirements of the end user organisation by employing a collaborative working ethos which enables us to deliver a product which can be fully integrated into existing systems and processes. We also strive to help the client realise the potential of their physical assets and management systems by ensuring continuous improvement is championed. The COMS Maintenance and Engineering support teams hold a wealth of experience across a wide range of industries to ensure best practice is at the forefront of what we deliver.
COMS are experienced in scoping out the most appropriate and fit for purpose maintenance and engineering solutions in regulated industry settings. This support is key to achieving an outcome which satisfies the needs of the client. At the forefront of our delivery approach is our desire to fully understand the needs of the client and underpin our delivery output with a factual analysis of the current situation. We provide a flexible delivery approach which can be tailored to suit the needs of our client.
Our Maintenance and Engineering delivery covers, but is not exclusive to the following:
- Technical Basis of Maintenance
- Reliability Centred Maintenance
- Review of Existing Maintenance
- Risk Based Analysis
- Failure Mode & Effect Analysis
- T-RAM (Throughput, Reliability, Availability and Maintainability) Analysis
- Asset Care Assessment
- Spares and Obsolescence Analysis
- System Health Reporting
- Technical Documentation Production (Maintenance and recovery instructions etc.)
- Troubleshooting
- Gap Analysis
- Asset Lifecycle Management
- Design Review
- Asset Registration
- Master Equipment List Generation
- Drawing Update Services
- Maintenance Resource Analysis
- Maintenance Planning Services.
- Training Support
-
The Systematic Approach to Training (SAT) is a methodology for managing training programs. It is an orderly; logical approach to determining what people must know and do at a particular job or in a specific profession.
SAT begins with identifying people’s work related needs
COMS provide the capability to manage and deliver a full suite of training solutions using SAT.
This can include high level training needs analysis and training strategy proposals as well as detailed development support.
Providing Operations & Maintenance Engineering Support to regulated industries, specialising in Pre-Operations Delivery
Full Project Handover, Pre-Operations & Maintenance Support
COMS proudly hold the following certifications and memberships:
