Work Practice Optimization Service
Improving procedures, manuals, and work practices for safer, more efficient, and consistent operations
Reliability improvement through operational readiness and site-specific procedures
JERA's Work Practice Optimization Service delivers practical manuals and site-specific procedures — based on JERA's 70+ years of experience in refining our own — building operational readiness for safe, compliant operation. The result: reliability improvement, less person-dependency, and optimized O&M cost.
Issue
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Key factors when operating a power plant
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High load manpower
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Unsure how to incorporate recent issues
AT A GLANCE
70+ years
Operating thermal power plants worldwide
WHY JERA
Manuals refined by real operation
JERA identifies the essential elements from actual trouble experience and PDCA over 70+ years — not theory. That is the JERA O&M Way.
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JERA O&M Way
Systematic, unified framework of manuals by the actual experience
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Site-specific
Standard operating procedures tailored to your plant
OVERVIEW
What is Work Practice Optimization Service
Manuals and procedures are the core technical foundation for safe, reliable, compliant O&M. JERA develops or reviews them from a proven, unified framework (JERA O&M Way), delivering practical manuals and site-specific procedures based on experience. The result is operational readiness your team can operate by — driving reliability improvement across daily O&M.
BENEFITS
What proper manual management delivers
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Fewer human errors, higher safety
Practical, experience-based manuals remove the ambiguity that causes errors, so your team runs safely from day one.
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Optimized O&M cost
Avoid excessive, insufficient, or inefficient operation and maintenance activity.
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Less person-dependency
Standardize methods and retain knowledge as staff change over.
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Reliability improvement
A working management-of-change/PDCA loop drives ongoing reliability improvement, Kaizen, governance, and compliance.
CASE STUDY
A full O&M manual set, ready before commercial operation
CHALLENGE
Construction was on track, but the operating company had no one who could build its O&M manuals. Manuals have to be tailored to the plant's own organization and equipment configuration, and that work demands people with real operating experience. With commercial operation approaching, there was no time to recruit for it — and no systematic reference to start from.
SOLUTION
JERA has a manual set: a systematic, unified body of manuals built from decades of running its own plants in Japan — what JERA calls the JERA O&M Way. JERA then customized each manual to the plant's organization and equipment.
RESULT
Eighteen O&M manuals, delivered before commercial operation. The incoming management and technical teams now have a single, consistent reference to train against — the foundation for stable start-up and continued reliability improvement.
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18 manuals
Each tailored to the plant's own organization and equipment
Source: JERA project record at a power plant in Bangladesh (CCGT). Figures are from one site and will vary by plant configuration and load profile.
Q&A
Work Practice Optimization Service, answered
Q. What is Work Practice Optimization Service?
It's a service in which JERA develops or reviews your O&M manuals and procedures — the technical foundation for safe, reliable, consistent, and compliant operation. Working from its proven, unified framework (JERA O&M Way), JERA produces practical, site-specific standard operating procedures that reduce person-dependency and optimize O&M cost.
Q. How are JERA's manuals structured?
JERA maintains manuals covering business management, financial and revenue management, HR, asset management, information management, and plant operation / maintenance — plus a supporting base layer. Each manual is accompanied by standards and procedures as attached documents.
Q. What makes JERA's O&M manuals different?
They embed not only decades of operating experience but also Kaizen-based efficiency thinking and know-how on economical equipment operation — so that even a newcomer can manage plant operation.
Q. Do the manuals handle overseas laws and regulations?
JERA's manuals are built on Japanese laws and regulations, so they need tuning to the laws and regulations of the country of introduction, which the customer is asked to handle.
EXPLORE MORE
Related O&M Services
Put a proven O&M framework behind your plant
Request a consultation. JERA will review your current manuals and procedures — or help you build them from scratch — and tailor practical, site-specific procedures to your plant, before you commit.
NOTES
Author: JERA Overseas Engineering Service Group · Reviewed by O&M Engineering Strategy Division Published Sep 2026 · Last updated Sep 2026