Although the fossil power industry is booming with an ongoing expansion of generation projects, high fuel costs coupled with expenditures to meet regulatory requirements are squeezing generation margins. As such, power producers are looking for fleet improvements to increase efficiencies and flexibility while reducing emissions in order to meet the growing demand. However, many plants are operating with minimal resources, making it difficult to staff improvement projects. Outdated systems are another barrier to improved operations due to their replacement costs and lack of integration with other systems. As a result, there is often poor plant-wide visibility and measurement of operational performance, hindering the ability to quickly and effectively respond to variances or identify areas for improvement.
Whether your fleet improvements involve updating old or obsolete equipment, integrating disparate systems, or getting more out of your generation and human assets, IPS can help. Our Power Generation solutions leverage our broad portfolio of proven technologies and leading industry and application expertise to address your individual needs.
To address the challenges and unique requirements of the power industry, IPS brings together key elements from our comprehensive product portfolio with powerful solutions including:
- Critical Asset Management transforming your operations to a predictive and proactive approach encompassing operations, maintenance and supply chain to accelerate production, reduce lifting costs and extend asset life
- Operator & Engineering Effectiveness enhancing overall team productivity and utilization through right-time scenario evaluation, training and critical situation management while providing a highly productive and intuitive environment with templates that enable consistent, high quality engineering solutions in a collaborative environment
Maintenance Effectiveness providing the required availability at the lowest possible cost through best practices and advanced techniques including Condition Based Maintenance and Reliability Centred maintenance.
Real Time Finance providing global visibility to all key performance indicators and the financial impact of operational decisions
Production Optimization improves yield, minimizes quality giveaway and fuel blend reworks, and reduces inventory and maintenance costs
All of these solutions are enabled by the global industry experience embodied in our Global Consulting organization. This world class team works with our clients to identify the issues and opportunities and develop the strategy, action plan and ROI for the necessary solution components.
IPS has extensive project management experience and our trained project managers deliver projects on time and to cost. Our expertise extends to the application – we understand steam generation, turbine and generator operation so that we can apply the correct control solutions. We employ reusable engineering techniques, reducing the risk for new projects and our systems are designed and certified to the industry standards for hardware, HMI, communications, etc. A higher level of automation means we can consolidate satellite control rooms to a central control room, reducing manpower requirements. Our leading solutions can integrate many asset-level disparate information sources within the enterprise and leverage whatever system is being used, regardless of vendor or generation. Our solutions automate a more collaborative and productive environment - and we’re able to quantify the impact and measure performance improvement. We have proven our capabilities worldwide.