Session Overviews

The failure of power transformers is always an area of significant concern because it can result in substantial financial costs, power interruptions, and potential environmental and safety consequences. Therefore, it is imperative to promptly identify abnormal changes in the transformer’s internal condition and determine whether these changes could lead to an incipient failure. Active detection and identification of incipient faults are now possible through online monitoring of abnormal changes in certain parameters, and the use of analytics and diagnostic methods for failure mode correlation, assessment of equipment condition, and suggested actions. This paper provides an overview of transformer monitoring systems, measured signals, analytics, and diagnostic methods for the identification of transformer failure modes.

While these are quite different disciplines, they should be closely related in any organization. Let's discuss how they can collaborate more effectively and the common tools they can use to make improvements in themselves and others.

This session highlights a strategic approach to maintaining equipment reliability in industrial settings, emphasizing two key activities: evaluating current equipment capabilities and implementing maintenance practices for optimal functionality. We will explore criticality assessments supported by data tailored to specific plant needs, and best practices for prioritizing maintenance based on criticality to optimize resource allocation and enhance operational efficiency. The selective use of tools like Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) ensures cost-effective, time-saving strategies. We'll discuss ways to refine current maintenance strategies to effectively allocate resources, such as skilled labor hours, to the most critical assets, while allowing less critical assets to run to failure. Ultimately, a value-driven maintenance approach enhances equipment reliability, ensuring uninterrupted operational functionality while aligning with organizational objectives.

As a leader, you cannot deliver results by yourself. You need to get followers to execute what you believe are the right things to do. Show them what you believe are the right things to do. These beliefs have been used by the presenter to build a very successful reliability and maintenance management company over 52 years. They have also been used to help several hundred organizations improve performance worldwide.

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This presentation delves into the forefront of electrical asset reliability by addressing the latest updates to NFPA 70B standards and how ultrasound can play a critical role in electrical fault detection. This session aims to equip industry professionals with essential knowledge on leveraging ultrasound technology to detect and mitigate faults such as corona, tracking, and arcing, thereby elevating the reliability of electrical assets.

This paper presents Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) methods to improve equipment and system reliability for Plant Operations. By using AI and ML, we drive the integration of Health Scores, Remaining Useful Life, and hierarchical management-level KPIs. Technical, Techno-Financial, and Financial KPIs are developed and presented via dashboards at various management reporting levels. The integration of process data and financial data enables strategic operational and reliability planning to improve run times, reduce power costs, validate sensor data, and determine optimum maintenance interval cleaning cycles.

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MRO (Maintenance, Repair, and Operations) inventory management plays a pivotal role in ensuring timely maintenance and avoiding unplanned outages. By ensuring that necessary spare parts and materials are readily available, maintenance teams can swiftly respond to repair needs, thereby enhancing equipment reliability and longevity. This proactive approach to maintenance aligns with reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) principles, which focus on preventive and predictive maintenance strategies to improve the overall reliability of systems and equipment.

Communication planning can make you look like a rockstar, but a lack of communication will make you look like just a plain old rock. In this session, we will go through the six major steps to effective communication within your reliability initiative. By effectively executing these steps, you will improve support, resources, credibility, and alignment. We will discuss what each of these means to you professionally and to your initiative. If you are not getting the results you expected, now is your chance to gain some insights and tips that might just change your trajectory.