Case Study: Palo Verde reduces maintenance costs and boosts power production with Uptake Compass

Digitally transforming preventative maintenance operations to increase productivity, reduce costs

Palo Verde, the largest nuclear-generating site in the U.S., needed a better way to reduce maintenance overhead while keeping equipment failures low across its three-unit facility. Previously, its preventive maintenance schedules were largely based on OEM recommendations, which limited flexibility and made maintenance less cost-effective. The customer worked with Uptake and its Compass application to digitally transform preventive maintenance operations.

Using Uptake Compass, Palo Verde optimized maintenance strategies by identifying which tasks to extend, eliminate, or add based on asset-specific failure modes, risk, and cost-effectiveness. Uptake’s solution helped Palo Verde cut annual preventive and corrective maintenance working hours by 37%, save $10 million annually in maintenance costs, reduce costs by 20%, and improve overall capacity factor and power production without compromising safety.

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