Preventative Asset Maintenance
It’s almost as if we can peer into crystal balls—modern preventative-maintenance capabilities in the utilities space eliminate wasteful, scheduled upkeep efforts and provider operators with pinpoint forecasts to enable them asset upkeep that is cheaper, easier and safer. Myriad tools are in use with modern preventative maintenance, from asset-health scorecards to hybrid architectures that generate real-time analytics to guide smart maintenance strategies.
Unique Aspects Of Utility Assets And How That Affects Maintenance
Managing Utility Assets? Try an Ounce of Prevention.
Few industries are as asset-intensive as utilities. And even fewer undergo the public scrutiny utilities face when an asset fails and a service interruption ensues. Utilities work hard to provide highly reliable service, and their success at doing so has painted them into a corner of sorts: customers have come to expect service reliability, and they have little tolerance for the inconvenience of doing without for more than very short periods of time.
Predictive T&D Asset Management for Utilities
Analytics can generate astonishingly precise predictions about critical Transmission and Distribution (T&D) assets, including the potential for upcoming problems and the likelihood of outright failure.
An Unmatched Utility Analytics Database: HEXstream’s Exasol Partnership
Real-time analytics are becoming essential to the transformation of utility operations (we explore this potential in depth in our article here). Any real-time analytics solution, however, can only be as fast as the underlying data infrastructure. HEXstream wanted to offer our customers access to one of the most innovative database architectures available, which is why we partnered with Exasol, the world’s fastest analytics database.
Demystifying Data Analytics for Electric Utility Executives
Demystifying analytics and artificial intelligence by sharing concepts that promote comprehension for executives and other non-technical utility stakeholders.
Developing Smarter Asset Strategies From Deeper Asset Performance Insights
Before The Lightning Bolt: Evolving Strategies For Smarter Outage Response
Asset-Health Scorecards
Why an Asset Health Scorecard Might Just Be Your Utility’s Best Asset
“Not too long ago, asset managers used simple spreadsheets to keep track of widgets the utility owned. Things have gotten a lot more complicated. Asset managing technology went digital and the process evolved with features, choices, and attributes. Asset management changed for the better, but the learning curve has been steep as utilities move from spreadsheets to sophisticated analytical platforms.” –T&D World Article “Asset Health Awareness Changing the Grid”
How Real-Time Analytics Help Transform Utility Operations
The Importance of a Reliable Approach for Turning Raw Operational Data into User-Friendly, Interactive, Context-Rich Business Intelligence.
The Threats With Climate Change Vs. Grid Resiliency With Digital Applications
Creating Smarter Asset-Management Strategies For T&D Utilities
Data-Driven Tactics To Turn Global Supply Chain Challenges Into Opportunities
Hybrid Architecture For Real-Time Analytics
A Southeastern Utility Uses a Hybrid Architecture for Real-Time Analytics
Why Utilities Should Include Analytics When Upgrading Source Systems
It is a fact of life that organizations need to upgrade NMS, CIS, MDM and other large systems to keep pace with vendor changes. This paper will discuss why implementing Oracle Utility Analytics (OUA) simultaneously with a source system upgrade is not only possible, but represents best practices for both source system and analytics implementations.
Why Analytic Goals Should Drive Data Architecture Selection
When my kids were younger, the sheer volume of Legos scattered hazardously around the house demanded near-constant cleanup, which always included storing and organizing the bricks. For kids eager to speed through cleanup, organizing the bricks by color, rather than by type or by the kit they came in, would appear to be the optimal Lego storage strategy. But when playtime came back around, they learned the hard way that storing thousands of individual Legos by color made it nearly impossible to locate the bricks they needed in order to build functional structures.
Data-Driven Tactics To Turn Global Supply Chain Challenges Into Opportunities
Predictive Asset Maintenance
Predictive Asset Maintenance of Utility Field Assets
Utilities depend on fixed assets spread widely across their service territories to keep the electricity, gas, and water flowing. These assets need to be maintained to prevent service interruptions. As we saw in California, the consequences of poor maintenance can be much more than just service interruption. According to the New York Times, downed power lines caused by poor maintenance were partially responsible for some of the wildfires there last year.