Case Study: Power Plant Company avoids catastrophic equipment failure and saves $159,000 with GE Digital Asset Performance Management

Power plant avoids catastrophe by proactively replacing faulty transition piece

Power plant Company, a combined-cycle power plant operating with lean staff due to low power prices, experienced an unnoticed shift in turbine operational parameters that risked equipment failure. GE Digital’s Asset Performance Management and IPRC monitoring flagged the anomaly by analyzing hundreds of sensor streams and alerted the plant before engineers detected the problem onsite.

GE Digital’s IPRC engineers recommended an inspection during a weekly status call, which uncovered a defective transition piece that was proactively replaced during planned downtime; operational parameters returned to model-predicted values and catastrophic failure was avoided. The intervention and planned maintenance produced a projected savings of $159,000 based on GE modeling and historical PJM pricing.