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As a supplier of innovative, high-quality components and services, BWXT Canada Ltd. (BWXT Canada) caters to a worldwide customer base. We take great pride in supplying highly engineered solutions that allow our customers to compete within the complex power generation industry.

BWXT strives to ensure that all of our projects are aligned with our customers’ goals to increase safety, improve plant productivity and availability as well as to extend plant equipment life.

Each project requires unique solutions and thus our approach is a multi-disciplinary team with custom engineering capabilities, industry leading quality control, innovative research and development and superior field service personnel.

Delivering Proven Results

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Comprehensive. Dynamic. Flexible.

Through our extensive experience in the valve services industry, we’ve focused our skills to provide a variety of specialty services that are not easily matched by our competitors.

Our customers in the competitive power generation industry depend on critical valves to be reliable and safe.

The BWXT Valve Services team is focused on providing a full suite of services to fit your needs and improve both online and outage performance.

BWXT valve services are: Comprehensive. Dynamic. Flexible.

Why BWXT Valve Services?



At BWXT Canada, our Valve Services team offers a choice of comprehensive, dynamic and flexible solutions aligned to customer needs for all aspects of valve maintenance services - meeting and exceeding safety and quality requirements for utilities and industrial applications.

BWXT Canada is committed to customer choice and input in customizing solutions best suited to their individual valve needs.

Condit ion Assessment & Scope Def ini t ion

Valve Engineering Ser vices

Work Task Planning & Schedul ing

Replacement Par ts & Repair

Field Execution & Technical Oversight

Procurement & Materials Management

BWXT’s Valve Services Solution

Comprehensive - A fully integrated approach, from scope definition through field execution and project closeout. Dynamic - The ability to quickly respond to changing customer requirements and priorities. Flexible - Committed to customer choice by tailoring solutions to meet specific needs, through selection of one or more of our Valve Services modules.

Valve/Actuator Training Ser vices

Modular or Fully Integrated Approach


Condition Assessment & Scope Definition

Valve Services is dedicated to validating component conditions to ensure proper scope definition prior to commencement of any project. This is accomplished through customer collaboration and cross-functional teams. Assessments are performed in a timely and efficient manner by our skilled and experienced technical staff ensuring:

• Component condition validation• Consideration of all available information for each valve • Attention to station programmatic requirements• Use of latest diagnostic technologies

Key Result - Provision of practical recommendation for repair or replacement strategy, allowing us to meet customer life cycle requirements.


Our team has the knowledge and expertise to develop optimal solutions required for: the implementation of component replacements, refurbishments, upgrades and modifications for the maintenance of plant system performance. Our commitment to long-term success is achieved through high quality service and product excellence, delivered to our customers in a timely manner.

At a minimum, our extensive Engineering Ser vices provide:

• POV program development• Valve and actuator design modifications• Analysis of valve and actuator testing data• Procurement engineering, including IEE• Valve maintenance procedure development• Valve packing set specifications• Mechanical joint specifications• Valve failure analysis investigation• Stress analysis and metallurgy

Valve Engineering Services



Schedul ing

Accurate, resource leveled schedules are a cornerstone of any successful project. A well developed baseline, combined with timely and accurate updating, allows for effective project management from inception through completion:

• Effective use of PrimaveraTM P6 software• Easy integration into customer project plans• Accurate resource forecasts• Change Control Management

Work Task Planning & SchedulingValve work task planning employs a two-phase streamlined approach based on industry best practices. We are committed to offering the client a more cost effective way to plan and complete projects on time and on budget.

Phase - 1 Field Condit ion & Equipment Evaluat ion

Our field condition and equipment evaluation will set the field team up for success by putting the right documents and parts in their hands; greatly reducing the chance of costly re-work. Count on us to:

• Perform due diligence of configuration management, which is critical to licensing, improves success factor of field work and mitigates discovery

• Perform walk down of approved scope to validate field conditions

• Identify long-lead parts• Recommend procurement strategy• Estimate resources and installation hours • Identify risks• Recommend strategy for support group

requirements (scaffolding, insulation, etc.)

• Key Performance Indicators meaningful to the customer• Outputs customized for effective communication• Post-work assessments to identify continuous improvements

to work package contents and assessed hours

Phase - 2 Work Package Development

Tablet based work-package preparation saves time and money, provides process continuity, and accurately identifies resource requirements. This establishes a strong foundation for successful field execution by considering:

• Pressure boundary requirements• Environmental qualification requirements• On-line wiring• Valve packing set specifications • Mechanical joint specifications• Clearance requests• Relevant drawings/procedures• Recovery/contingency plans for as-found

conditions


B&W’s comprehensive Quality Assurance program allows full procurement capability for materials in all code classifications. This, combined with our experienced staff and “best in class” materials management and inventory control, saves our customers time and money, and offers:

• Assurance of traceability and configuration management• Inventory storage, coordination and warehousing aligned to

material quality level and code requirements • Material staging and just-in-time delivery by work package

aligned to customer schedule requirements• Storage of critical spares inventory

Procurement & Materials Management


Leveraging our extensive manufacturing experience along with our mature quality program, BWXT can repair and reproduce any exist-ing valve/actuator trim or component, meeting all code and quality requirements while rapidly responding to emergent customer needs.

Utilizing the latest technologies provides measurements accurate enough to meet the exacting criteria demanded for the re-engineer-ing of components. This accuracy combined with the precision of our manufacturing process (tolerances of up to 0.0002”), results in components well within the design requirements of the OEM.

Replacement:• Offers a solution to challenges faced by obsolescence • Provides a direct alternative to the OEM• Cost and time savings

Repair :

• Welding and machine services• Cost effective with quick turnaround time• Refurbish used parts for new inventory

Replacement Parts & Repair


We offer a full range of training delivered by industry experts, for all types of valves and actuators, including manual valves; AOV, MOV, NV, and RV.

Many of our courses are designed to be able to receive INPO accreditation, as well as qualify candidates to stand the EPRI AP3 test process.

Our training solution provides:

• Programs developed using the Systems Approach to Training as described in INPO ACAD 85-006 & ACAD 02-001

• Extensive courses in both valve maintenance and diagnostics• A fully equipped mobile valve training facility that can be

brought to your site• Combined “hands on” and classroom based training• Low student to instructor ratios• Customizable to specific sites and equipment

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Our full range of field services provide total maintenance and testing capabilities for all valve and actuator types, making us your one-stop-shop for field services. Subject matter experts and qualified valve technicians employ testing techniques aligned with utility requirements for reliability, licensing and safety.

• Trained and experienced field supervision• Full range of expertise in removal, overhaul, installation, and

diagnostics • Portable testing and in-situ overhaul capabilities• Off or on-site services

Efficiencies in field work are realized through the use of tablet based electronic work packages, putting the most up-to-date information in the hands of the field teams:

• Reducing error-likely situations means improving safety and quality while reducing rework

• Reducing indirect labour• Increasing wrench time at workface• Reducing paperwork• Real time progress reporting

Field Execution & Technical Oversight

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Safety With over seven million hours without a lost time incident, safety is at the core of our business and is a key element of our culture. Our Target Zero program is a comprehensive and successful program that allows our customers to rest assured that safety is top of mind on all job sites. We strive to finish each and every day incident and injury free. Furthermore, BWXT Canada utilizes ALARA principles for radiation dose management.

Operational ExcellenceBWXT Canada also maintains a robust Operational Excellence and Human Performance Improvement program that ensures our customers receive products and services of the highest quality in the industry. Our unique safe-behaviour observation based program ensures the highest attention to detail and industry leading safety records.

With a focus on cost and schedule efficiencies, we save our customers time and money while providing the industry’s highest level of service and quality. Our proven track record demonstrates that continuous improvement and quality assurance is evident in every project we execute for our valued customers.

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Products and services described herein are provided by BWXT Canada Ltd., a BWXT subsidiary. BWXT Canada Ltd. is a subsidiary of BWX Technologies, Inc. (BWXT). Headquartered in Lynchburg, Va., BWXT is a leading supplier of nuclear components and fuel to the U.S. government; provides technical, management and site services to support governments in the operation of complex facilities and environmental remediation activities; and supplies precision manufactured components and services for the commercial nuclear power industry.

The information contained herein is provided for general information purposes only and is not intended nor to be construed as a warranty, an offer, or any representation of contractual or other legal responsibility.

© 2015 BWXT Canada Ltd. All rights reserved.

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QualityBWXT’s QA program conforms to the requirements of:

• ISO 9001:2008• ASME Section III, NCA-4000, NQA-1• ASME Certificates of authorization for N,

NA, NS, NPT, PP, S, U, U2 and U3• National Board, NR Certificate of

Authorization• U.S. Federal Regulation 10CFR50

Appendix B and applicable US NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) regulatory guides (e.g. 10CFR21)

• CSA Quality Program Standard N285 and Z299.1

• Qualified EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction) vendor meeting the requirements of CSA N286 as surveyed by OPG

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