Decommissioning with OPTIRA
Comprehensive dismantling management for complex facilities
New potentials through innovative technologies
Why a digital decommissioning solution?
Decommissioning projects are among the most complex industrial projects imaginable. Traditional, isolated planning tools quickly reach their limits because they consider individual aspects but do not provide a consistent overall view.
However, a holistic, data-based solution is crucial for planning decommissioning projects in a transparent, controllable, and resilient manner across all phases. OPTIRA—our digital decommissioning solution—takes such an integrated approach.
OPTIRA – the digital planning and control solution
Our digital decommissioning solution was developed specifically for the technically and logistically demanding decommissioning of industrial and large-scale facilities. By taking a holistic view of all project phases, OPTIRA creates transparency, reliable forecasts, and a dependable basis for decision-making in complex decommissioning projects.
Our solution supports the entire decommissioning process, from shutdown to disposal, in an integrated planning model:
- Shutdown and post-operation
- Decommissioning and dismantling
- material processing
- Release and disposal
- Building decontamination and release
- Consideration of official approvals
All technical, logistical, and spatial dependencies are systematically recorded, linked together, and taken into account throughout the entire course of the project. Planning is not a static, one-time result, but rather a continuous process.
Changes in the course of the project, new insights gained from implementation, or changes in the general conditions can be taken into account at any time and fed back into the planning.
This ensures that dismantling remains controllable and resilient, even in highly complex situations.
OPTIRA functionality is based on three central components that interact and together enable holistic planning and control:
- Planner: for structured strategic and operational planning of dismantling, resources, and time sequences
- Optimizer: for the continuous optimization of schedules, capacities, and resource utilization based on current data
- Waste Tracker: for recording and reporting relevant actual data from dismantling, material flow, storage, and processing
Together, these components form the foundation for consistent, transparent, and robust dismantling planning across all project phases.
Challenges in dismantling projects:
- Fragmented planning approaches
- Planning data, operational information, and empirical values are distributed across different systems or are only partially structured..
- Dependencies between decommissioning, dismantling, material processing, and disposal are often only recognized at a late stage.
- Bottlenecks in resources and capacities, uncertain schedule and cost forecasts, and limited decision-making ability in the event of changes during the course of the project.
- No reliable basis for investment and capacity decisions due to a lack of transparency.
The solution: OPTIRA
- Holistic approach
- Integrated consideration of all project phases, linking of planning and actual data, and continuous optimization of time and resource plans (= consistent overall project plan)
- Early visibility of potential bottlenecks and interactions
- Informed assessment of scenarios and fact-based decisions
- Transparency and active support in managing complex dismantling projects
OPTIRA PLANNER – Structured planning as a foundation
The OPTIRA Planner forms the foundation of our OPTIRA digital demolition solution. It supports the strategic and operational planning of complex demolition projects. Based on structured project, space, system, and component data, demolition volumes, material quantities, and the resulting resource and time requirements are systematically determined.
The consistent linking of activities, materials, and dependencies results in a robust overall project plan. This enables reliable statements to be made about the project duration, the required capacities, and the expected effort. The Planner thus creates transparency about the entire course of the project at an early stage and serves as a sound basis for forecasts, scheduling, and investment decisions.
OPTIRA Planner is based on our Insight Control Panel product.
OPTIRA OPTIMIZER – Intelligent optimization of time and resources
The OPTIRA Optimizer continuously optimizes the project plans created in the Planner. It analyzes schedules, resource utilization, and relevant dependencies and dynamically adapts them to changing conditions. By simulating different scenarios and alternative courses of action, bottlenecks are identified at an early stage and their effects on deadlines, costs, and capacities are presented transparently.
On this basis, the Optimizer supports the selection of the best planning variant in each case and contributes to the efficient, stable overall execution of the dismantling project. Optimization is based on mathematical methods and ensures a high degree of planning reliability even in complex project structures.
WASTE TRACKER – Transparency from operational implementation
The Waste Tracker establishes the link between planning and operational implementation of our digital dismantling solution. It is used for the structured recording and feedback of relevant actual data from dismantling, material flow, storage, and processing. Quantities, masses, and status information are continuously recorded and fed back into OPTIRA.
This creates an up-to-date and reliable data basis that can be used to review, adjust, and further optimize plans. The Waste Tracker ensures transparency in ongoing project operations and supports realistic, continuous further development of the overall planning.
WASTE Tracker is based on our Insight Control Panel product.
