• Fossil Generating Unit Startup Process Monitoring and Improvement Using PI Tools

    Due to significant competition in power generation, Entergy's Fossil Operations is focused on improving the commercial value of its fleet by improving performance, reliability, and flexibility. Entergy® has implemented an Operations Information System across its fleet to identify and leverage ...
    Year: 2005

    Cutting the Cost of Flexible Operation in Competitive Power Markets

    Starting a generating unit involves bringing the plant from a shutdown condition up to synchronizing the electrical generator to the transmission network. Depending on the temperature of the boiler and turbine, startup times vary from an hour to several hours; ...
    Year: 2005

    Customer Keynote: Process Data: an Enterprise Asset at Bayer MaterialScience

    Bayer MaterialScience is one of the world's largest producers of polymers and high-performance plastics. In order to create competitive world-scale structures and to continuously improve its manufacturing processes, Bayer MaterialScience (BMS) regards process data as a critical enterprise asset. To ...
    Year: 2008

    MVDC Roadmap: From Proprietary to Standard PI

    International Papers (IP) has used PI to replace proprietary applications with the standard offerings from OSIsoft. They used Web Services and data compression to transfer large amounts of gauge data to clients across the WAN. Paper machines typically have 10-20 ...
    Year: 2007

    The Power of PI in Paper Manufacturing

    Our 2006 PI implementation has consolidated various islands of information into a central reporting and analysis hub. A downtime recording and reporting system was developed using Module Database and Batch. Performance Equations calculate the cost of production in real-time using ...
    Year: 2007