OT data is accessed from such components as Festo valve manifolds, servo drives, energy efficiency modules and remote I/O.

When fully utilized, condition monitoring can transform how power plants operate and maintain their assets. It can lead to increased efficiency, reduced maintenance costs, improved safety, and better ...

An innovative software program, coupled with an experienced team of engineers, allows plant operators to evaluate creep and fatigue stress in components exposed to more frequent cycling, thereby ...

Are you looking for ways to minimize downtime in the facilities you manage or design? Would you like enhanced awareness of what is happening in your system? Condition-based monitoring (CBM) may be the ...

On-line monitoring techniques have been under development over the past decades for a variety of applications in process and power industries. In the nuclear power industry, on-line monitoring ...

NETL collaborates with strategic partners to enhance the availability and reduce costs for advanced power systems, including gas turbines like the one pictured here. As advanced fossil energy systems ...

Optimizing automated equipment condition monitoring calls for a different wireless network protocol than that used with process instruments. Manufacturers of all sorts have long sought a balance ...

Most research reactors share the common characteristics of a long operating lifetime. With the advancement of digital technology, substantial improvements have occurred in the tools that can be ...

Partial discharge (PD) is the name given to the partial breakdown of the electrical insulation in high voltage (HV) switchgear and cables. This is a destructive process and, if unchecked, it will ...