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Managing Plant Digital Assets

Managing Plant Digital Assets. Combined Cycle Users Group Phoenix, AZ September 5, 2013 Jason Makansi President, Pearl Street Inc 314.495.4545 www.pearlstreetinc.com. Your Plant Has a Digital Brain!. Pearl Street. Brains and Brawn…. Two plants required. Pearl Street. Brain. Brawn.

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Managing Plant Digital Assets

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  1. Managing Plant Digital Assets Combined Cycle Users Group Phoenix, AZ September 5, 2013 Jason MakansiPresident, Pearl Street Inc 314.495.4545www.pearlstreetinc.com

  2. Your Plant Has a Digital Brain! Pearl Street

  3. Brains and Brawn… Two plants required Pearl Street

  4. Brain Brawn Pearl Street

  5. Elements of the Plant Brain… Pearl Street

  6. The brain communicates with the meta-organization… Pearl Street

  7. Five “Brain” Trends • Configuration Management is Coming – NERC Standards, PAS 55, ISO 55000, etc • Wireless Applications Keep Proliferating – Industry effort needed to prevent railroading by security concerns • Rethinking the Operator Interface – situational awareness, decision-making, data fog (includes alarm management) • Virtualization Makes Hardware More Productive Pearl Street

  8. The Fifth – PROGNOSTICS – is Really Important! • This is where big data, cloud, outsourcing, brain drain, right-sizing, downsizing, etc., all converge • Anticipate what WILL/COULD go wrong • Advanced alerts before typical control system alarms • Various means of pattern recognition – deep analysis of historical data, key parameters, associations among critical variables • Building models and algorithms – many pathways • Complements or replaces direct sensing/monitoring • Plant Health Indices – combining prognostic values NEED TO BE ADAPTED FOR NON-STEADY STATE (DYNAMIC, CYCLING, START/STOP) OPERATIONS Pearl Street

  9. Dreaming in 3-D Technicolor…HMI Pearl Street

  10. Plant brain”…plus eyeballs Pearl Street

  11. Who controls the brain? • Someone needs to be in charge! • The equivalent of an EPC contractor for the plant brain? • Role for a separate owner’s engineer for the plant’s I&C, automation, M&D, asset, and knowledge management systems • The DCS/automation supplier (OT) as “owner” of the brain • The EAM supplier (IT) as “owner” of the brain • The plant “brawn” manager and the plant “brain” manager both reporting to the plant business/financial manager EXAMPLE: South Texas Project (nuclear plant) employed an owner’s engineer responsible for overseeing I&C/digital systems for new Units 3-4 under development (project since put on ice) Pearl Street

  12. Brain vs. Brawn Design Comparison • Knowledge mgmt. philosophy • Hardware: Servers, PCs, PDAs • Plant DCS • Corporate EAM • Remote fleet M&D center • Cybersecurity codes, standards • Meta-organization: Principles for propagating, sharing information • Monitoring & Diagnostics • Boiler • Steam turbine/generator • Coal handling and preparation • General Plant description • Design Objectives • Codes and Standards • Civil/Structural Design Basis • I&C Design Basis • Control Philosophy • Control System functions • Mechanical Design • Combustion turbine • Steam turbine • HRSG Pearl Street

  13. Brain at LFG-fired Power Plant… Pearl Street

  14. Give Your Plant’s Brain the Respect It Deserves in this Digital Age Pearl Street

  15. That’s me playing the Cowardly Lion, Signal Mtn (TN) playhouse, circa 1974! Me Pearl Street

  16. Thank you!Address all correspondence to: Jason Makansi, President Pearl Street Inc Jmakansi@pearlstreetinc.com www.pearlstreetinc.com 314-495-4545 Pearl Street

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