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  1. Ansaldo Energia Utilized The Cloud To Increase Asset Availability And Reliability While Reducing Maintenance Costs 6/22/2020

    Ansaldo Energia is a 160-year old company headquartered in Genoa, Italy and a leading producer of thermoelectric power generation plants with a focus on plant engineering, manufacturing, and service. The company has over 100 power plants and 300 gas turbines around the world and provides remote monitoring services for customers in 13 countries. At the 2016 OSIsoft EMEA Users Conference, Sandro Gollini, a Diagnostic System Engineer at Ansaldo Energia, and Giuseppe di Bartolo, owner of TQService, discussed how Ansaldo is using the PI System for remote asset monitoring and predictive maintenance.

  2. Vattenfall Hydro Discovers New Efficiencies In Condition-Based Maintenance 6/22/2020

    With about 520 employees Vattenfall Hydro Power is the third largest hydro power provider in Europe. Learn how the installation of a new system reduces total maintenance costs while improving the continuous monitoring capabilities of each hydro power plant and increasing the accuracy of the condition of equipment.

     

  3. Kansai Electric Reduced Costs By $3M Per Year In One Plant Alone 6/22/2020

    For numerous years, Kansai Electric Power Co., Japan’s second largest power company, operated as a regional monopoly, providing the majority of power to the Osaka, Kyoto and Kobe areas. However, in 2011, the Fukushima earthquake triggered a tsunami that disabled the power supply and cooling at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, resulting in one of the worst nuclear meltdowns since Chernobyl. After the crisis, in 2016, the Japanese government passed the largest energy reforms since 1951, closing most of its nuclear plants, and fully liberalizing the nation’s electrical market, which until then consisted of ten regional monopolies.

  4. Scrubgrass: Data Saves Jobs In Coal Country 6/22/2020

    When your business model is exquisitely sensitive to a changing environment, an investment in real-time data can make the difference between survival and shutdown. That was the case for the Scrubgrass Generating Plant, a 35-employee, 85-megawatt waste-coal-fired power plant in Kennerdell, Pennsylvania. In the last few years, Scrubgrass has used OSIsoft data systems to overcome new market challenges that have already shuttered similar plants.

  5. Xcel Energy Uses The PI System To Improve Wind Forecasting And Save $46 Million In Operation Costs 6/22/2020

    Xcel Energy provides power for 3 million electric customers and 1.9 million natural gas customers across eight states. According to the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), it has been America’s leading provider of wind-generated power for the past 11 years, and the company holds a world record for electricity generated from wind power.

  6. Data To People: How AGL Energy Used The PI System To Empower Employees 6/22/2020

    In 1837, Australian Gas Light Energy (AGL) was founded in Sydney, Australia. At the time, Sydney was a small colonial outpost with less than 35,000 people, and “grid management” consisted of operating a few gas lamps. Today, AGL manages one third of the energy of Australia’s eastern seaboard, where most of the nation’s population lives.

  7. Mission Critical Data For Reliable Power In The Age Of Renewables 6/22/2020

    The rapid growth of renewable energy deployments on grids worldwide has profoundly changed the electric power value chain. Professionals at every link in that chain—from control room operators from generating fleet managers to regional transmission operators—face operational challenges that simply did not exist even a decade ago.

  8. PI System 4/2/2020

    From data to knowledge to transformation
    Move from complexity to simplicity, from asset and process intelligence to operational intelligence with the PI System. Its highly scalable, open data infrastructure empowers enterprises in real time, transforming operational data into actionable knowledge and business transformation.

  9. Industrial Temperature Measurement: Basics And Practice 3/10/2020

    With this Handbook for industrial temperature measurements we are attempting to provide the technician with solutions to his wide variety of responsibilities. At the same time, it provides for those new to the field, insight into the basics of the most important measurement principles and their application limits in a clear and descriptive manner.

  10. Focusing On…Targeting Acid Gas Emissions Challenges In The Non-Ferrous Metallurgy Industry 1/3/2020

    Non-ferrous metallurgy applications including the production and recovery of aluminum, copper, tin zinc and lead involve a variety of processes which generate HCL and SOx emissions.  Find out how SOLVAir®’s sodium-based solutions can help drastically reduce these emissions by up to >99%!