The rotating machinery workstation: For implementation of a condition based maintenance workstation
- Automation Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (United States)
- EPRI, Palo Alto, CA (United States)
- Salt River Project, Page, AZ (United States)
- Houston Lighting & Power, TX (United States)
In recent years, faced with growing competition in the power generation market, many utilities have established pedictive maintenance programs at their aging fossil plants, with the goal of optimizing the value of existing plant assets by extending component life, improving unit performance, and reducing operation and maintenance (O&M) costs. In these programs, utilities base maintenance decisions on actual equipment condition, and frequently realize substantial savings by detecting incipient failure early and avoiding forced outages, deferring routine overhauls; and extending the time between planned outages. To make well-informed, condition-based O&M decisions, utility personnel need ready access to high-quality monitoring and analytic data concerning plant equipment--data that is often isolated in {open_quotes}islands{close_quotes} of computerized information. Designed for use on local- and wide-are networks, EPRI`s Rotating Machinery Workstation (RMW) software gives users access, through a single graphical user interface, to monitoring and analytic information from a virtually unlimited variety of software sources. For instance, users working in the integrated RMW software environment can readily review: maintenance histories; data collected during periodic testing, inspections and overhauls; digitized photographs used to document equipment condition; expert-system diagnoses and condition assessments of key rotating machinery. As a result, utilities can reliably anticipate what maintenance they will need to perform on rotating machinery, manage maintenance activities, and reduce O&M costs by avoiding unnecessary repair, eliminating root causes, and improving component design and operating practices.
- OSTI ID:
- 405478
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-951208-; TRN: 96:004301-0026
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Power-Gen America `95: power generation conference, Anaheim, CA (United States), 5-7 Dec 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Power-Gen `95. Book V: Operating plants. Volume 1 - performance enhancement. Volume 2 - operation & maintenance cost reduction; PB: 364 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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