Applying Machinery Health to the Power Industry

Condition Monitoring for Power Generation

Integrate monitoring technologies to reduce outages and derates, improving plant availability and reliability.

Meeting Your Commitments in a Changing Environment

Your power generation facilities were designed to deliver consistent load profiles and handle routine peaks in demand. But the increased demand for renewable energy and the availability of inexpensive natural gas have forced a change in the way you operate.

Ensuring a constant grid supply means increased cycling, which can lead to increased unit heat rates and unplanned shutdowns. Your equipment, budgets, and plant personnel are increasingly challenged to meet your commitment to deliver grid demand. By uncovering developing faults in advance of equipment failure, you’ll begin scheduling the maintenance activities that lead to more reliable operations and minimize the risk of catastrophic events.

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Power Industry Case Studies

Wireless Vibration Monitoring | Power Co.

"We are always striving to reduce downtime and to move away from time-based activities and toward condition-based maintenance" 

- Senior Manager, Monitoring and Diagnostics 

Explore why a U.S. power utility company is deploying a network of approximately 5,000 units of Emerson’s AMS Wireless Vibration Monitor in all its fossil sites by the end of 2022.


Wireless PeakVue | Balance-of-Plant

Discover how a North American Power customer harnessed PeakVue technology, AMS Wireless Vibration Monitors, AMS Machine Works, and more to: 

  • Trim labor cost associated with collecting of vibration data.
  • Attain more frequent vibration data for improved monitoring of conditions or rapidly emerging issues. 
  • Reduce risk of incurring costly contract penalties due to plant derating or shutdowns.

AMS 6500 for Turbine Protection

Xcel Energy, headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is a major U.S. electric and natural gas utility providing energy to more than 3.3 million electric customers and 1.8 million natural gas customers. 

Emerson's AMS 6500 was introduced to Xcel's Pawnee Station (Colorado) during the installation of Ovation for turbine control, and site personnel seized the opportunity to obtain a machinery health management solution that promised full and easy integration with their Ovation system. Even though a contract had been signed to purchase another turbine protection system, that contract was cancelled and the AMS 6500 was ordered.


Plant-wide Condition Monitoring

“We’re monitoring more critical assets than ever before. We’ve put documented proof of the value of predictive maintenance in the hands of our leaders. We’ve made a difference in TEP’s ability to prevent unplanned shutdowns and to more effectively plan maintenance work.”

Learn how Tucson Electric Power, who delivers power to more than 414,000 customers in Arizona, leveraged Emerson's AMS 6500 and wireless vibration transmitters to reimagine sitewide condition monitoring and:

  • Avoid $1 million in maintenance and replacement costs
  • Save more than $750,000 in less than a year
  • Bolster safety by expanding monitoring to equipment in difficult-to-access areas 


Facts & Figures

Fact 1

39% of plants plan to decrease unscheduled downtime by expanding their monitoring capabilities.

fact 2

86% of plants outsource some of all their maintenance operations.

fact 3

46% of plants plan to decrease unscheduled downtime by evolving to predictive maintenance strategies.

Power Plant

Monitoring for Cooling Tower Pumps & Fans

AMS 9420 Wireless Vibration Transmitter
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AMS 9420 Wireless Vibration Transmitter
AMS 9420 Wireless Vibration Transmitter
The AMS 9420 Wireless Vibration Transmitter delivers vibration information over a highly-reliable, self-organizing wireless network for use by operations and maintenance personnel. With many of the same advantages as the AMS Wireless Vibration Monitor, it is...
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Advanced Prediction for high consequence plant assets like Cooling Towers – an ideal solution for trimming energy costs.

Monitoring for Gas Turbines

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AMS 6500 ATG
Advance Prediction and Protection for high consequence plant assets like Gas Turbines - an ideal solution for obsolete protection-only systems.
AMS 6500 ATG
Along with maintaining productivity and product quality, safety ranks amongst the top goals for most plants. An essential tool in achieving those goals is the protection system used on your most critical production assets, and its ability to accurately detect...

Smart M&D Center

Next Generation Smart Maintenance & Diagnostics • Remote vibration analysis / root cause diagnostics • Remote process efficiency analysis • Monitoring system health verification

Monitoring for Generators

AMS-6500-ATG
AMS-6500-ATG
AMS 6500 ATG
Advanced Prediction and Protection for high consequence plant assets like Generators - an ideal solution for obsolete protection-only systems.
AMS 6500 ATG
Along with maintaining productivity and product quality, safety ranks amongst the top goals for most plants. An essential tool in achieving those goals is the protection system used on your most critical production assets, and its ability to accurately detect...

Monitoring for Condensate Pumps

AMS 6500 UM Universal Measurement Card
AMS 6500 UM Universal Measurement Card
AMS 6500
Advanced Prediction for high consequence plant assets like Condensate (vertical) Pumps – an ideal solution for normally hard-to-reach submerged vertical pumps.

Monitoring for Gearboxes, Fans & Pumps

AMS Asset Monitor
AMS Asset Monitor - More Monitoring Benefits for More Assets
AMS Asset Monitor | Overview
AMS Asset Monitor
AMS Asset Monitor
Manages pervasive sensing while providing prediction, protection and process monitoring capabilities and designed to mount at the asset to reduce cabling. Accommodates up to 12 CHARMS including Vibration and process input CHARMS.
AMS Asset Monitor - More Monitoring Benefits for More Assets
AMS Asset Monitor - More Monitoring Benefits for More Assets
In the latest release of the AMS Asset Monitor, user will find that additional functionality delivers new benefits and increased ease of use for monitoring balance-of-plant assets.
AMS Asset Monitor | Overview
AMS Asset Monitor | Overview
Most plants are aware of the importance of condition monitoring for critical assets...but what about the remaining equipment? What about those balance of the plant items that still need of some level of monitoring but don't justify the extra expense of online...

Monitoring for Gearboxes, Fans & Pumps

AMS Wireless Vibration Monitor
ECAT Single Stroke Cycle Demonstration
Innovation in Wireless Vibration
Emerson Solutions for Improving Reliability
Easy Installation of the AMS Wireless Vibration Monitor
AMS Wireless Vibration Monitor
AMS Wireless Vibration Monitor
Delivers full vibration data and rich info about machinery health for operations and maintenance. Easily integrated into any control system or plant historian, while diagnostic data can be displayed by AMS Device Manger, among other software.
ECAT Single Stroke Cycle Demonstration
AMS Wireless Vibration Monitor
The health and performance of assets within a plant is a vital component of your organization's ability to produce quality products. Yet for too many plants, the ability to institute condition monitoring on a broad scale has been difficult to implement due...
Innovation in Wireless Vibration
Innovation in Wireless Vibration
The last ten years have delivered many technology innovation that impacted us personally and professionally. Learn how Emerson kicks off the next ten years be redefining wireless vibration monitoring.
Emerson Solutions for Improving Reliability
Emerson Solutions for Improving Reliability
Emerson offers the software, technology and expertise to improve reliability of production assets. Focusing on reliability can mean more availability of assets, more profitability for the plant, and increased safety for personnel.
Easy Installation of the AMS Wireless Vibration Monitor
Easy Installation of the AMS Wireless Vibration Monitor
The next step in your digital transformation journey can be quick, easy, and impactful. Unique characteristics of the AMS Wireless Vibration Monitor make installation and configuration so simple, you'll be up and running in less than a few minutes.

Control Room

Real-Time Operator - Actionable Information • Overall vibration values • Alert and danger alarms • PeakVue readings

Monitoring for Cooling Tower Pumps & Fans

AMS-6500-ATG
AMS-6500-ATG
AMS 6500 ATG
Advance Prediction and Protection for high consequence plant assets like Cooling Tower Pumps & Fans - an ideal solutions for obsolete protection only systems
AMS 6500 ATG
Along with maintaining productivity and product quality, safety ranks amongst the top goals for most plants. An essential tool in achieving those goals is the protection system used on your most critical production assets, and its ability to accurately detect...

Monitoring for Steam Turbines

AMS-6500-ATG
AMS-6500-ATG
AMS 6500 ATG
Advanced Prediction and Protection for high consequence plant assets like Steam Turbines - an ideal solution for obsolete protection-only systems.
AMS 6500 ATG
Along with maintaining productivity and product quality, safety ranks amongst the top goals for most plants. An essential tool in achieving those goals is the protection system used on your most critical production assets, and its ability to accurately detect...

Monitoring for Boiler Feed Pumps & Turbines

AMS-6500-ATG
AMS-6500-ATG
AMS 6500 ATG
Advance Prediction and Protection for high consequence plant assets like Boiler Feed Pump or Turbine - an ideal solution for obsolete protection-only systems
AMS 6500 ATG
Along with maintaining productivity and product quality, safety ranks amongst the top goals for most plants. An essential tool in achieving those goals is the protection system used on your most critical production assets, and its ability to accurately detect...

Data Embedded into Ovation Manages Machinery Health

Ovation user? Start Your Condition Monitoring with a Snap. 

Emerson’s leading Reliability Solutions portfolio integrates with your existing operations and software, like Emerson’s Ovation™ integrated control and safety platform and AMS Device Manager to help you orchestrate next-level productivity and decision-making across your enterprise. 
 

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Prediction & Protection for Your Turbines

Prediction & Protection for Your Turbines

While the shutdown of many kinds of assets in your facility can halt plant output, few are as complex or as expensive as the turbine

For this critical asset, your personnel require a complete system – predictive intelligence plus protection capabilities that integrates with the distributed control system – to maximize reliability.

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Maintain Reliability Across the Balance of Plant (BOP) Assets

There are many assets in your facility that can impact capacity – boiler feed pumps, compressors, and motors to name a few.

These BOP assets are essential to meeting your business goals and require the same field-proven monitoring technologies as your turbines. Emerson’s wireless and route-based solutions are the perfect balance of quality monitoring with cost-effective implementation for these applications.

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