Replacing Nuisance Alarms with Actionable Equipment Intelligence at Mirant

摘要

Every power generation plant operations manager is responsible for the reliable delivery of electrical power at the best possible cost within the constraints of the plant’s design, safety, and environmental regulations. While aging plants require more maintenance, he finds himself with a diminished employee base. Plant personnel are stretched thin. They are task-saturated and overloaded with data, analysis tasks, and false alarms. Increasing productivity through more effective decision-making is an imperative. Traditional tools help, but problems still persist. They miss bad input data due to improperly working sensors. They are labor-intensive. Their analysis techniques are difficult to coordinate; and they miss subtle changes in conditions that are precursors to equipment performance problems. This presentation addresses how advanced asset analytics can cut through nuisance alarms and can detect problems, prioritize them, diagnose them, and notify appropriate personnel – allowing engineers and operators to spend their time solving real problems rather than searching for them. Learn how leading power generators have employed these analytics to improve availability and reliability while reducing maintenance and energy costs.