Requirements of Standards and Provisions made
in the
AIMS Software Framework
Current as on 8th May 2003
Document #04
This
short document describes the requirements of Standards (IAEA Safety Standard Series,
“Maintenance, Surveillance and In-service Inspection of Nuclear Power Plants”
Safety Guide No. NS-G-2.6) and how the Assets and Infrastructure Management
System (AIMS) Software Framework is designed to meet them.
The
following Table gives, the requirements on the
left-hand side and the features of AIMS in the right-hand side, with
appropriate explanations where applicable.
Storage
Requirements and Compliance
|
S.No. |
Requirements of
Standards |
Compliance by
AIMS |
|
1. |
Specifications
and as-built drawings |
These
drawings can be electronically stored in the form of either images (JPG or
PDF) or in a graphical format (AutoCAD Drawings). In any case, the AIMS will
store the file names (of these drawings) as STRINGS# and can be located in the IMAGES Section. If
required to Open these drawings, AIMS will issue a call to the native
application to open the drawing*.
|
|
2. |
Samples
of materials Used |
Name,
photograph, physical and chemical properties can be stored, either in properties,
sub-properties or in notes. |
|
3. |
Records
of Personnel Qualification |
Can be
stored either as Images (Certificates) or as Data (Notes). |
|
4. |
Pre-service
Inspection data and reports |
Data, if
1-d can be stored as signals (with notes on the experimental conditions), and
if 2-d can be stored as images; Reports can be documents, wherein file names
are stored. |
|
5. |
The
in-service inspection programme and detailed examination
and test procedures (including relevant codes and standards) |
Inspection
programme, detailed examination and test procedures
can be documents in which case the file names will be stored. Codes and
Standards can either be hyperlinked or reproduced in PDF format. |
|
6. |
Reports
and Charts from examinations and tests |
Can be
stored as Documents (file names can be stored as STRINGS) |
|
7. |
Calibration
Records |
Can be
stored either as Images or PDF files – AIMS will store the file names as STRINGS. |
|
8. |
Acceptance
Standards |
Hyperlinks
or PDFs. |
|
9. |
Evaluations |
Images
or Documents stored as STRINGS. |
# When ever a file name needs to be stored, AIMS stores the file name with
the full path name as a STRING within its database. The file itself,
will be stored in a separate Administrator defined storage area – either
locally or across the intranet / internet, whose access will be governed by the
access control list of the underlying OS.
* It must be noted that AIMS will always issue a call to the native
application(s) to open well known file formats. It will go by the file
associations defined by the OS that runs AIMS in the first place. For example,
in a typical scenario, *.jpg files will be opened by PhotoEditor,
*.dwg by AutoCAD, *.doc files by MS Word, *.mpg files
by MS Windows Media Player and so on. AIMS will not contain any application
software component to open pre-determined file extensions.
As each
signal, image, video or audio field has associated notes field in the database
structure, and since each of these objects are open lists, we can continue to
add any number of such objects to the database, only limited by the storage
space.
One must
remember that AIMS stores only the “relation” between these objects – connected
via the ID value and the object’s filename - and not the objects themselves.
Objects are stored separately and are operated by their respective native
applications.
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