Webinar: Smart MRO: Using Technology and Assessment to Enhance Power Plant Performance by Energy Group Webinars

Smart MRO: Using Technology and Assessment to Enhance Power Plant Performance

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Join EPRI’s Dwayne Coffey, The Colt Group’s Jason Box and ASNT's David Bajula as they reveal how strategic assessments and smart technology integration are revolutionizing power plant maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO), delivering measurable improvements in safety, reliability, and cost-effectiveness. Discover proven MRO methodologies for identifying operational gaps and learn how to successfully integrate technology that enhances your team’s expertise.

Dwayne Coffey, Plant Management Essentials Program/Area Manager with EPRI, will give a presentation focused on operations and maintenance (O&M) assessments. Generating facilities are always seeking to improve O&M performance and create lower-cost, more-reliable, and safe electricity with minimal impact on the environment. To achieve these goals, it is necessary to understand where improvements can be achieved and what barriers must be overcome to accomplish this improvement. The EPRI Operations and Maintenance Assessment performs a non-biased observation-based assessment of operations and maintenance activities at generating facilities to identify issues in these areas using an electronic webtool with identified measurable criteria of industry best practices allowing plant management to focus resources (people and money) in the areas needed for plant improvement.

Jason Box, CEO of The Colt Group, a leak-repair and specialty mechanical services company headquartered in Pasadena, Texas, will give a presentation focused on technology and how it is transforming repair and maintenance at major industrial sites. Some operations and maintenance workers fear that technology is coming to take their jobs, but the reality is that their work is being enhanced, not replaced, by innovative technology. Jason will explain how technology is having a positive impact on plant operations by improving safety protocols, providing real-time asset monitoring insights, and proactively optimizing operations, among other things. He’ll also show how companies can enjoy these benefits through thoughtful integration of technology, combining traditional expertise with smart adoption, one operational layer at a time.

Presenters

Dwayne Coffey

Plant Management Essentials Program/Area Manager, EPRI

Dwayne Coffey is program manager for EPRI’s Plant Management Essentials (Program 225). This program focuses on critical roles of people, process, and technology—how they can be improved, and where they can be best integrated to reduce cost, increase productivity, and achieve safe, reliable, cost-effective, and environmentally responsible power generation. Dwayne has more than 35 years of operational and maintenance experience in the power industry, and has worked at both nuclear and fossil plants.

Jason Box

The Colt Group, CEO

Jason Box is CEO of The Colt Group. He is a seasoned executive with more than 20 years of experience managing industrial field services businesses. Since joining Colt Group as CEO more than three and a half years ago, Jason’s leadership has been pivotal in driving the company forward by expanding market presence, improving operational efficiencies, and introducing innovative technology. Before joining Colt, Jason served as Executive Vice President of Operations for Acuren Inspection, where he successfully oversaw 3,100 employees across 43 field locations. Prior to Acuren, Jason held senior leadership roles at Team Industrial and HydrochemPSC (formerly PSC). Jason has a BS and an MBA from the University of Houston.

David Bajula – CEng

ASNT/9712 NDT Level III

David Bajula - CEng, a professional with over four decades of experience in nondestructive testing (NDT), has been at the forefront of global advancements in nondestructive testing for the nuclear power, aerospace, petrochemical, and refining industries. His journey began with an associate’s degree NDT program at Hutchinson Vo-Tech in Minnesota. David has worked with companies such as Magnaflux, General Electric, and ABB/Combustion Engineering. He finished his time at Acuren as the GM of Advanced NDT Services after 23 years of service and currently serves as VP – NDE Solutions & Innovations for PROtect, based in Houston, Texas. A Chartered Engineer by the Engineering Council through BINDT, David also holds ASNT Level III certifications across 10 methods, multiple API certifications and an AWS CWI. He is an ASNT Fellow with numerous other ASNT awards and currently serves as chairperson of the Certification Management Committee and the ANSI TAG for ISO TC135 committee. David's provides expert witness testimony in legal cases involving NDT, David continues to work in the field while also offering consultancy services as a recognized NDT Subject Matter Expert in legal cases.

Aaron Larson

Executive Editor, POWER magazine

Aaron Larson joined the POWER team in September 2013 as an associate editor and was named executive editor in 2017. Aaron has a bachelor’s degree in nuclear engineering technology and a master’s degree, specializing in finance. He spent 13 years in the U.S. Navy nuclear power program, advancing to Chief Petty Officer. He has worked at commercial nuclear, biomass, and coal-fired power plants, functioning in operations, maintenance, safety, financial, and management capacities. Aaron holds a Chief A Engineer boiler operator license in the state of Minnesota.

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