Equipment trouble report and equipment diagnostic database for substations
I remember watching the Star Trek movie where Mr. Scott sits down in front of a computer, like the one on my desk, and asks the computer to display information for him. The computer does not respond. He has to type into the computer and know enough about the use of computers to retrieve information. If computers today were capable of responding to voice commands and they had every bit of information available faster than we could process it, even the most inept computer person would be able to retrieve information quickly and easily. The problem is that we are in the middle between Star Trek`s talking information warehouse computers and a paper driven system. In fact, most substation maintenance groups are still in the paper stored in file cabinets mode for most diagnostic test information. That is where Pennsylvania Power & Light Company (PP&L) was two years ago. However, PP&L is now headed for the future through PC-based database tools. The Reliability Analysis Database (RAD) was developed to initiate the process of gathering trouble report and diagnostic information into a simple to use database with reports and graphical display capabilities for trending.
- Research Organization:
- Electric Power Research Inst. (EPRI), Palo Alto, CA (United States); Cambias and Associates, Covington, LA (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 269626
- Report Number(s):
- EPRI-TR-105838; CONF-9411304-; TRN: 96:003582-0004
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 3. substation equipment diagnostics conference, New Orleans, LA (United States), 1-3 Nov 1994; Other Information: PBD: Mar 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings: Substation equipment diagnostics conference III. Proceedings; PB: 299 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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