APM Integration, Change Management and Maintenance

customer:
T&D utility
Application:
APM
Country:
Chile

Customer Challenge

Transelec plays a critical role by providing power to over 96% of the population of Chile. To ensure an uninterrupted power supply, the operator invests in digital solutions reducing the unforeseen failure risk of electrical substation and line equipment, improving the availability of the network in the most populated area of the country.

GE's Solution

The EnergyAPM solution implementation and support:

  • EnergyAPM application deployed to gather operation and condition asset data
  • Risk assessment and operation and maintenance planning tools
  • Integration with other systems in the customer IT environment: interface with the ERP, with a maintenance planning application, line inspections database and geographic information system
  • 10 years of change management and maintenance support

Customer Benefits

  • The consolidation and analysis of data in a unique location will help the operators to predict behavior of 14.800+ assets and 13,500 km of HV lines and implement an efficient maintenance and replacement strategy provided through digital technology.
  • The proven health models developed by GE product and field experts cover all asset types including lines, and are further customized in partnership with the customer to ensure they are well adapted to the operational environment
  • With the digital solution, the risk of failure can be reduced by up to 50%
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National Condition Monitoring Center

customer:
T&D Utility
Application:
APM
Country:
Oman

Customer Challenge

OETC creates a National Condition Monitoring Center for 400 kV substations located in Oman to prioritize the maintenance strategy, reducing downtime and increasing operational efficiency. OETC reliability team better reorients their maintenance strategy from time-based to condition-based strategy - using automatic recommendations, asset health index, asset maintenance and risk indexes.

GE's Solution

The solution is built around EnergyAPM software including:

  • EnergyAPM software that will consolidate the off-line inspections and online monitoring data into one single place and provide smart analytics
  • Interconnection to customer’s IT Enterprise systems: SCADA, EAM & GIS
  • Substations’ upgrade to connect 20 existing MS300 transformer monitoring devices and install new ones
  • Inspections of over 2000 high-voltage asset using EnergyAPM-FIT mobile tablet-based application
  • EnergyAPM Core Services including historian for data ingestion, storage, monitoring and reporting
  • Oil sample test and analysis in GE oil laboratory
  • Supply of periodic reports and recommendations from GE’s subject matter experts

Customer Benefits

  • Optimizing operations and maintenance processes and facilitating decision making
  • Performing online monitoring of critical assets and digitizing existing inspections ISO 55 000 asset performance management process optimizing the asset performance
  • Reaching the required levels of substations operational efficiency and productivity, with a high-level view on the critical assets’ health - anticipating asset failures before they occur and thereby proposing an efficient replacement strategy
  • Achieving up to 50% failure rate reduction and 20% savings in replacement cost