Advanced analytics for thermal plant operation and maintenance

Increasing speed and value of self-service analytics by 10x – 100x

Visplore lets operators and maintenance engineers perform monitoring and root-cause analysis on live- and large historic data much faster and more intuitively than ever.

Why our customers prefer Visplore

 
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With Visplore, we detected boiler leaks and pipe cloggings many days earlier than before.

Since our operators create performance reports in a few clicks, time to action is shortened significantly.

Automated condition monitoring of our heat exchangers using Visplore optimizes our maintenance cycles and saves freshwater, energy, and time of reliability engineers.

Use Cases for real value

Start-up analysis for performance reporting and optimization

Automated performance reports

Isolate start-ups from raw signals by intelligent pattern search or by rules (e.g. speed thresholds) and apply this operation automatically to new live data. Additional parameters affecting the start-up such as initial temperatures are considered. Operators can easily compute KPIs such as fuel consumption or ramp-up duration for performance reporting and analysis for optimization.

Minimizing unplanned maintenance costs by anomaly detection

Visplore combines automatic anomaly detection with the plots needed for expert assessment. For example, leaks in boilers or tanks are detected by analyzing shutdown events regarding pressure drop rate. Similarly, clogging, or loosening of valves can be detected. This gives days of a head start for scheduling maintenance so that negative consequences on the process and on costs are minimized.

We spotted a boiler leak days earlier by comparing downramp profiles in Visplore.

Site manager, thermal power plant

Boiler Leak, pressure sinks too fast, go inspect if there is a leak

Interactive ad-hoc analysis and sharing of data stories

Fast ad-hoc analysis and correlation of data sources

Zoom, filter, select and categorize huge amounts of time series data from AVEVA PI or databases – all intuitive for operators. Correlate with data from other sources, such as ambient conditions, price information or event logs. Tell your stories using more than 20 visualization types, and share with management in a free viewer version.

Time series modeling and model diagnostics

Engineers build regression models without depending on data science teams. Predicted reference bands support condition monitoring for detecting leaks, overheating and much more – for early intervention at minimal costs. Also for external models (e.g. EBSILON), Visplore supports validating prediction quality and guides model improvement.

Your best RoI ever

  • Start small and grow with user demand – always without limits in data volume
  • Boost productivity for operators, performance engineers, asset managers, reliability engineers and data scientists worth hundreds to thousands of working hours per year
  • Increase plant performance in terms of fuel efficiency
  • Prevent unplanned maintenance by detecting issues like loosening parts or clogging early
  • Schedule interventions better by earlier detection of leaks, and avoid downtimes or other severe consequences
  • Reduce the burden on own data science resources by enabling the whole team to perform advanced analytics
  • Save costs for external analytics service providers
  • Add value from your existing investments in your digital transformation
  • and much more …

Plug and play for your data landscape

 
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influx
oracle
sql server
databricks
python
timescale
sap
postgre sql
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