Electrify Europe 2018

Digitalizing the Brownfield - Strategies to Optimize Operations, Reduce Downtime and Maximize Value (Room Lehar 3)

20 Jun 18
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Tracks: Track 3: Big Data, Big Opportunity.

Speaker(s): Anne-Marie Walters, Industry Marketing Director, Process and Resources, Bentley Systems, Inc

Today’s operators of power generation plants and power distribution assets (such as substations) are constantly looking for ways to improve asset performance and achieve operational excellence. With the explosion of sensing technologies that can be added to existing assets to monitor and measure everything from the smallest vibrations to temperature variations and make this information widely available over the internet (the Industrial Internet of Things – IioT) there is no shortage of ideas or options. But how do you sort through the mass of available information and sort out what to act on and what to track? How do you know what data you don’t have but need, and when to spend money on expensive sensors? This is where leveraging engineering information (ET) can really help to converge the masses of operational information (OT) and enterprise information (IT) to help make better informed decisions about your plant and improve its performance. This paper will examine the range of engineering technologies available from providing accurate asset management information so you know exactly what assets are where, engineering models describing what the asset is designed for and capable of doing, and performance information covering how and when the asset might fail. An emerging new technology to capture “as operating” data from simple digital photography (reality modeling) will be discussed and a new proof of concept will be demonstrated that combines reality models with engineering and operational information – running on Siemens’ MindSphere platform - to show how it quickly and inexpensively one can apply this technology to improve operations and maintenance for brownfield sites.