Background
Reliable energy supply is the key to success for each enterprise in a globalised industrial world. Grid owners and utilities today face a number of unique challenges: capital expenditure cuts, loss of knowledge and key expertise through retirements and downsizing. Furthermore, ageing assets at higher levels affects lifespan and reliability, yet utilities are expected to maintain the same level of performance.
Condition Monitoring provides the answer
It is an important element of asset management and operation support - beneficial for both the environment and the business.
Condition Monitoring is indispensable for network optimisation and efficiency. Asset Managers and operators need access to reliable condition data to know which network components have to be maintained, repaired, or even replaced and the best time to do so. Monitoring enables you to make accurate decisions to optimise asset management and operational support. The lifetime of your existing infrastructure is extended, which is beneficial to your business as well as to the environment.
Siemens offer the most comprehensive range of Condition Monitoring solutions available, based on expert knowledge and cutting edge technology, covering all equipment present within the power supply network - from transformers to the substation, cables and overhead lines.
Siemens Condition Monitoring solutions are a fundamental prerequisite for protecting your company's image, investment, securing your operational performance requirements and long-term entrepreneurial success.
A Long HIstory
Siemens (Reyrolle) introduced the world's first continuous, online partial discharge monitoring system (PDM) for gas-insulated switchgear (GIS) in April 1992 at Killingholme 400kV Substation in the UK. This system is still in operation to the user's satisfaction today, which illustrates the reliability of the equipment and sets the standard worldwide. Now in its third generation, the Siemens PDM System utilises state-of-the-art technology combined with the invaluable experience gained from the former systems. PDM laid the foundations for the development of the Siemens Condition Monitoring Solutions available today. Some important milestones include:
1992 The world's first continuous online Partial Discharge Monitoring System for GIS
1995 The world's first UHF PDM HV Test Equipment
1997 Second Generation VHF PDM System developed
2002 Circult Breaker Monitoring System developed and installed at Cockenzie (UK)
2006 Development of the Siemens SF6 Gas Density Monitoring System (GDM)
2007 Installation of the world's most comprehensive and still the largest SF6 GDM System in the USA
2009 Introduction of the Siemens Integrated Substation Condition Monitoring Solution (ISCM)
Product Range
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