Integrate monitoring technologies to reduce outages and derates, improving plant availability and reliability.
Your power generation facilities were designed to deliver consistent load profiles and handle routine peaks in demand. But the increased demand for renewable energy and the availability of inexpensive natural gas have forced a change in the way you operate.
Ensuring a constant grid supply means increased cycling, which can lead to increased unit heat rates and unplanned shutdowns. Your equipment, budgets, and plant personnel are increasingly challenged to meet your commitment to deliver grid demand. By uncovering developing faults in advance of equipment failure, you’ll begin scheduling the maintenance activities that lead to more reliable operations and minimize the risk of catastrophic events.
"We are always striving to reduce downtime and to move away from time-based activities and toward condition-based maintenance"
- Senior Manager, Monitoring and Diagnostics
Explore why a U.S. power utility company is deploying a network of approximately 5,000 units of Emerson’s AMS Wireless Vibration Monitor in all its fossil sites by the end of 2022.
Discover how a North American Power customer harnessed PeakVue technology, AMS Wireless Vibration Monitors, AMS Machine Works, and more to:
Xcel Energy, headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is a major U.S. electric and natural gas utility providing energy to more than 3.3 million electric customers and 1.8 million natural gas customers.
Emerson's AMS 6500 was introduced to Xcel's Pawnee Station (Colorado) during the installation of Ovation for turbine control, and site personnel seized the opportunity to obtain a machinery health management solution that promised full and easy integration with their Ovation system. Even though a contract had been signed to purchase another turbine protection system, that contract was cancelled and the AMS 6500 was ordered.
“We’re monitoring more critical assets than ever before. We’ve put documented proof of the value of predictive maintenance in the hands of our leaders. We’ve made a difference in TEP’s ability to prevent unplanned shutdowns and to more effectively plan maintenance work.”
Learn how Tucson Electric Power, who delivers power to more than 414,000 customers in Arizona, leveraged Emerson's AMS 6500 and wireless vibration transmitters to reimagine sitewide condition monitoring and:
39% of plants plan to decrease unscheduled downtime by expanding their monitoring capabilities.
86% of plants outsource some of all their maintenance operations.
46% of plants plan to decrease unscheduled downtime by evolving to predictive maintenance strategies.
Improving Reliability for the Most Important Rotating Assets in Your Plant
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Ovation user? Start Your Condition Monitoring with a Snap.
Emerson’s leading Reliability Solutions portfolio integrates with your existing operations and software, like Emerson’s Ovation™ integrated control and safety platform and AMS Device Manager to help you orchestrate next-level productivity and decision-making across your enterprise.
While the shutdown of many kinds of assets in your facility can halt plant output, few are as complex or as expensive as the turbine
For this critical asset, your personnel require a complete system – predictive intelligence plus protection capabilities that integrates with the distributed control system – to maximize reliability.
There are many assets in your facility that can impact capacity – boiler feed pumps, compressors, and motors to name a few.
These BOP assets are essential to meeting your business goals and require the same field-proven monitoring technologies as your turbines. Emerson’s wireless and route-based solutions are the perfect balance of quality monitoring with cost-effective implementation for these applications.
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