This weblog sequence discusses the complicated duties power utility firms face as they shift to holistic grid asset administration to handle by means of the power transition. The primary submit of this sequence addressed the challenges of the power transition with holistic grid asset administration. The second submit on this sequence addressed the built-in asset administration platform and knowledge alternate that unite enterprise disciplines in several domains in a single community.
Breaking down conventional silos
Many utility asset administration organizations work in silos. A holistic strategy that mixes the siloed processes and integrates varied planning administration techniques gives optimization alternatives on three ranges:
- Asset portfolio (AIP) degree: Optimum venture execution schedule
- Asset (APMO) degree: Optimum upkeep and substitute timing
- Spare half (MRO) degree: Optimum spare elements holding degree
The mixed planning workout routines produce budgets for capital expenditures (CapEx) and working bills (OpEx), and set minimal necessities for grid outages for the upcoming planning interval, as proven within the following determine:
Asset investments are sometimes a part of a grid planning division, which considers expansions, load research, new prospects and long-term grid necessities. Asset funding planning (AIP) instruments deliver worth in optimizing varied, generally conflicting, worth drivers. They mix new asset investments with present asset replacements. Nevertheless, they observe totally different approaches to danger administration by utilizing a danger matrix to evaluate danger initially of an optimization cycle. This top-down course of is efficient for brand spanking new property since no details about the property is offered. For present property, a extra correct bottom-up danger strategy is offered from the continual well being monitoring course of. This course of calculates the well being index and the efficient age based mostly on the asset’s particular degradation curves. Dynamic well being monitoring gives up-to-date danger knowledge and correct substitute timing, versus the static strategy used for AIP. Combining the asset efficiency administration and optimization (APMO) and AIP processes makes use of this enhanced estimation knowledge to optimize in actual time.
Upkeep and venture planning happen in operations departments. The APMO course of generates an optimized work schedule for upkeep duties over a venture interval and calculates the optimum substitute second for an present asset on the finish of its lifetime. The upkeep administration and venture planning techniques load these duties for execution by area service departments.
On the upkeep restore and overhaul (MRO) aspect, spare half optimization is linked to asset criticality. Failure mode and impact evaluation (FMEA) defines upkeep methods and related spare holding methods. The principle parameters are optimizing for inventory worth, asset criticality and spare half ordering lead instances.
Conventional planning processes deal with disparate planning cycles for brand spanking new and present property in a top-down versus bottom-up asset planning strategy. This strategy results in suboptimization. An built-in planning course of breaks down the departmental silos with optimization engines at three ranges. Optimized planning ends in decrease outages and system downtime, and it will increase the environment friendly use of scarce assets and funds.
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