Operational Drift Is Risky Business for Power Generators

As power generators bring in new talent, rely on contractors and manage increasingly diverse assets, everyday work can slowly move away from approved procedures. This is operational drift, and it often stays invisible because a completed work order only shows that a task happened, not how well it was done.

Training alone doesn’t prevent it. Consistency depends on execution: putting guidance at the point of work, capturing field exceptions in real time, and feeding what technicians learn back into procedures and reliability planning. The shift that matters is from completed work to verified execution.

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