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Energy is the base of life. Given the impact of urbanization, digitization, and industrialization, these

megatrends increase demand for electricity. Power suppliers are under pressure to improve their

efficiency to adhere to competitive pricing, and maintain responsible practices for environmental

suitability. Global power players share a common ground to adopt smart utility transformation,

to deliver stable power to homes and businesses. Schneider Electric’s Predictive Performance

Management, empowers global power players to effectively leverage advancements in digital

technologies, to achieve operational efficiency for a sustainable and connected plant.

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Industry Challenges

In today’s fast-paced utility industry, the global power players are experiencing transformation and constant change, facing challenges from multiple directions:

• Environmental and safety concerns grow, while regulations tighten

• Fuel prices fluctuate, increasing competitive pressures

• Aging workforce and lost knowledge hinders effective operations

• Aging assets increase risk and may require replacements

• Demand in developing markets requires accelerated new construction

Amid such challenges, the greatest threat to the growth and profitability of a company is a siloed organization, resulting in performance gaps from - isolated data, inability to capture and share tacit knowledge, and failure to respond quickly to non-conformity events. These gaps can be mitigated by integrating assets and operational processes with a layer of intelligence, creating a widely-connected platform to support speedy delivery of meaningful information to the right person, at the right time, which ultimately extracts maximum value from the plant.

Power generation companies can now look forward to this closed-loop platform with Predictive Performance Management by Schneider Electric. The comprehensive solution provides an organization with the capability to manage the exponential growth of data using advanced analytics, and connect its key assets - people, equipment and processes, to improve productivity, agility, and efficiency of the organization, to achieve strategic transformation and stay ahead of the curve.

Bridging the Organization’s Assets and Operations

The foundation of a connected plant is a system that converges IT and OT, tightly integrating all functions and data points into a unified environment. With the captured information and processes mapped to a common platform, stakeholders are empowered to make early decisions and take informed actions to improve the organization’s performance.

In addition to a connected organization, improving equipment reliability, performance and safety are among the top priorities for power generation operators. Power companies are always in pursuit of ways to reduce outage frequency to minimize generation costs, optimize load management and improve end-user satisfaction.

Predictive Performance Management focuses both on Operations (the process) and Predictive Asset Management (the equipment) to capture and analyze real-time data generated from the process, providing closed-loop tuning and management for higher asset performance and enhanced operations control. It adds contextualized dashboards, KPI management and decision management, all in a unified environment with a self-service graphical configuration interface. It provides enterprise fleet performance monitoring with the capability to compare asset performance to improve operational efficiencies. The solution leverages Avantis® PRiSM, adding predictive analytics functionality, which provides early warning notification and diagnosis of equipment issues. Coupled with a complete operations management functionality, Predictive Performance Management helps asset-intensive organizations like the Power industry reduce equipment downtime, increase reliability and improve performance while reducing operations and maintenance (O&M) expenditures.

Predictive Performance Management eliminates the informational silos ever-present in organizations to create a singular and collaborative ecosystem:

• Enterprise fleet performance monitoring for plant performance comparison

• Create a knowledge hub by codifying learnings to drive consistent actions

• Transform from reactive to predictive maintenance to enhance maintenance maturity

• Mitigate technical consequences that may impact company economics

• Identify improvement opportunities by tracking KPI results from plant-wide or site-by-site locations, and against industry best practices

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Building Blocks of Predictive Performance Management

Predictive Performance Management provides power generation operators the tools to standardize business workflows and improve collaboration across functional domains. The solution enables the monitoring of key performance processes and activities that trigger alerts when potential problems arise. The availability of the relevant and timely information helps to manage the workforce, and accelerate decision-making to optimize operating performance. Operators can now minimize outage disruptions, and increase operational agility, to deliver the power of action and accountability to every stakeholder.

Closed-Loop Plant

Unified Data Store Homogeneous handling of current and future KPIs and deviations

Full lifecycle management of a KPI

Capture of deviation handling knowledge

Capture audit trail

Unified Data Store - Provides the ability to uniquely identify an Asset or Process element, irrespective of the system managing it. Thus, an equipment can easily be identified, regardless of how it is referred to in an individual system.

Homogeneous handling of current and future KPIs and deviations - Current and predicted values are handled in different systems, but their process is uniform. The way a value is visualized, used in a calculation of deviation, or used in a workflow has no bearing on whether it is a current or future prediction.

Full lifecycle management of a KPI - Provides the capability to define and track key metrics, detect deviation, and recommend remedial action, and ensure closing of execution loop.

Capture of deviation handling knowledge - Performance-related knowledge constitutes two parts: (1) knowledge about what conditions lead to an equipment failure, or dip in performance, and (2) remedial action to avoid it. Part (1) is captured from historical data, where patterns leading to failure are discovered; while part (2) is initially captured as a set of cause/effect relationships (human knowledge), and later by running a process improvement workflow, as new, unhandled cases are discovered.

Capture audit trail - Provides the ability to capture deviation events, recommended action, action taken, and event closure.



Features Capabilities

KPI Manager

KPI Manager ensures management (import/creation/modification) of KPIs for increased decision support and awareness. Some of

the key features are:

• Ability to create custom calculations

• Set up frequency of calculation as per user requirements

• Define hierarchy of KPIs (enabling lag-lead relationship)

• Storage of calculation results

• Set up integrity limits for monitoring KPIs to achieve a specific target

• Set up notifications on KPI at violation of limits/target

• Associate KPIs to hierarchy model of assets/materials

• Ability to import libraries of KPIs to form a selectable set of formulas

Event Manager

Event Manager presents operations events history across applications that can be retrieved and analyzed efficiently on the

unified platform. A self-configured panel allows event data from different assets to be displayed in various graphical formats and

different time series for analysis.

Decision Manager

Decision Manager provides a common case management capability so that alerts, events and tasks can be managed through

their life cycle to resolution. Some of the key features are:

• Association of cause(s) to non-conformity

• Association of action(s) to cause(s)

• Enabling automated workflow to guide end-users with suggested actions based on a specific non-conformity

• Storage of cases to enable future decision-making

• Association of stakeholders for ownership of casual analysis

Operations ConsoleOperations Console enables role-based, contextual visualization for the workforce to benefit from immediate insight into

operational performance issues, and empowers them to resolve these matters before they escalate to bigger problems.

Operational Data

Management

Operational Data Management provides self-service semantic processing which “federates” the name spaces among different

applications. The aim of the module is that multiple products can have their own asset model definition and be able to load these

models into the ODM module, then federate the same assets from different applications into one unified asset model. This can be

used by different applications to query how to talk/ reference another application, similar to a “yellow pages” directory. This is one

of the key features required for seamless information flow across boundaries of systems that come from different vendors.

Avantis® PRiSM

Avantis PRiSM is a predictive asset analytics solution that can provide early warning notification and diagnosis of equipment

issues days, weeks or months before failure. PRiSM gives users the ability to quickly transform raw data into actionable insights to

prevent equipment failure and make smart decisions that improve operations. Equipment-agnostic, PRiSM can be configured to

monitor assets regardless of equipment type, vendor, or asset age without the need for the manufacturer’s specific

asset information.


PRiSMPredictiveAnalytics

Performance Manager

Operations Console KPI Manager Decision Manager

Event Manager Operational Data Management




ExecutiveView enterprise performance across time dimensions, including real-time

Develop accountability in stakeholders

Able to view performance reports in real-time

Receive/view report which provides a single version of truth

Technical Services StaffWith predictive insights, Service Staff are freed up to work on real issues

Integrated with Operations and Maintenance (O&M) teams to ensure information and action alignment

OperatorSimplified view of performance reports

Embedded in daily work process

Clear linkage between hierarchical metrics

Accountability to address causes of deviations Empower to take action when needed

Site Head

Predictive Performance Management provides transparency, accountability and collaboration within the organization:




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Transformation to an agile and wise enterprise

Closed-loop performance management

Intuitive decision making

Empowerment at every level of hierarchy

Enhanced procedural rigor

Delivering economic

return from all asset types

Drive Continuous Operational Efficiency

Predictive Performance Management puts power generation companies in control of the plant performance, using process digitization to deliver the power of action and accountability to optimize growth of the plant:




Customer FIRST Software Maintenance and Support Program Our Mission: Your Success

Predictive Performance Management offers the award-winning Customer FIRST Maintenance and Support Program. Customer FIRST is a flexible portfolio of services that help protect and extend the value of your Schneider Electric Industry Solution across the entire lifecycle. A Customer FIRST agreement establishes a formal service relationship with Schneider Electric, enabling access to the latest software upgrades and providing expert technical assistance, optional services and self-help tools to help you improve your operational effectiveness. For more information on Customer FIRST, please visit: software.schneider-electric.com/support/customer-first For more information about Predictive Performance Management, please visit: software.schneider-electric.com/ppm


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