Florida Power Project
"What Compose does for us is vital. I just enjoy a piece of software that truly increases productivity."
Jan Schroeder, Licensing & Regulatory Programs
Background
As a regulated business, Florida Power is responsible for delivering a Final Safety Analysis Report (FSAR) in compliance with Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) regulations 10 CFR 50.71(e) and 10 CFR 50.34(b).
The processes around assembling and publishing an FSAR are complex and challenging and Florida Power was relying on traditional manual processes that were by their very nature slow, time consuming and error prone. The FSAR, thousands of pages in size, was a compilation of various scanned, hand-typed, word processing and photocopied documents.
Florida Power described the work as "fragmented, unwieldy and difficult to manage."
Business Challenge
In 2000, Florida Power set for themselves the goal of becoming the first nuclear power plant to deliver an FSAR electronically. In pursuit of this goal, there were two major objectives:
- Develop a product that would be standardized and fully searchable to users.
- Develop a process that ensured the integrity of the document itself.
Solution
Compose was a significant part of the solution that enabled Florida Power to be successful in their goals. After capturing disparate pieces of the FSAR content and converting it into a single format, Adobe™ Acrobat PDF, Florida Power used Compose to automate the vital task of creating, maintaining and auditing hyperlinks within the complex structure of documents.
Compose was deemed critical in managing the hyperlinks.
- Amounting to tens of thousands of hyperlinks, Compose linked and fully indexed 816 PDF files that comprised the FSAR, allowing it to behave like one cohesive book.
- Satisfied the first goal of creating a seamless, fully searchable document.
- Tapping into the full power of Compose, users wrote their own specific commands to manage the links and now have the ability to rerun those commands at any time.
- Satisfied the second goal of ensuring the continued integrity of the document.
Successful in their goal of becoming the first plant to publish and electronic FSAR, Florida Power has received recognition by their peers and their industry as forerunners in developing and executing a process that streamlines and accelerates the publication of regulated documents.