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Fully automated, physics-based analysis of SCADA temperature signals for Drivetrain Monitoring
The SkySpecs Performance team has demonstrated that physics-based models can be used to model the thermal response of components inside the wind turbine with full transparency, low complexity, and high accuracy. By using this approach, a number of faults can be detected across a wind turbine portfolio, including gearbox, main bearing, and generator damage.
The rate of change of body temperature is then calculated using a thermal inertia coefficient, calculated for each individual turbine. All coefficients are trained using reference datasets from relatively short time periods, and used to predict future temperature responses of the same components. Prediction and measurement are finally compared to produce residual values, which in turn were used to detect the presence of component faults.
Improve your industrial operations with cloud-based SCADA systems
There are several advantages of cloud-based SCADA systems, such as reducing the need for installing and maintaining expensive server hardware and software on premises and making your industrial data available wherever and whenever you need it. Cloud-based SCADA systems are increasingly important in IIoT and Industry 4.0 because they provide the automation, data collection, analysis, analytics, machine learning, and connectivity necessary to improve processes and operations. With cloud-based SCADA systems, customers have easier access to the data and can use cloud services to manage and analyze the data at scale.
Ignition is an integrated Software Platform for SCADA systems by Inductive Automation. The Inductive Automation partner solution deploys Ignition, a solution by AWS Partner Inductive Automation, to the AWS Cloud. The partner solution enhances availability, performance, observability, and resilience of SCADA applications. It provides both standalone and cluster deployment options of Ignition on Amazon EC2 Linux instances. Both options are designed to be secure and highly available, configured with best practices for security, network gateway connections, and database connectivity.
SCADA Is Changing The Game
Today, it’s all about democratization of data. SCADA has always been a big data consumer. However, today organizations are thinking about data differently. Instead of thinking about what data my SCADA system requires, it is important to think about what data my business requires. Then you can extend that thought into standardizing what you want your data to look like across the entire organization.
Vibration analysis for equipment degradation assessment and preventive maintenance
Vibration analysis is an effective way to identify defects and is also considered an early and reliable indicator of defects. Such information can help improve asset performance and reduce maintenance downtime. At Hitachi India R&D, we decided to look at how vibration analysis could be applied in equipment degradation assessment and support preventive maintenance in wind turbines. Firstly, wind turbines are a popular renewable energy source and maintenance & operations of these high value assets are expensive. There are further challenges in the operations of wind turbines as they operate in a remote location and equipment are hoisted at tower as high as 100 meters. Remote monitoring & early fault detection allows wind farm operators to take timely corrective steps and reduce energy and revenue loss. SCADA based monitoring is a standard process for most operators. Secondly, the science behind the vibration analysis of gearbox applies to any rotating equipment and our work can expand to products like pumps, motors etc in industries like automotive, water, energy etc.
Industrial Internet of Things: Real-time remote control of smart factory between Korea and Finland
The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) announced that it has succeeded in demonstrating the Industrial Internet of Things service that controls and monitors smart factory facilities and robots in real-time at home and abroad at the same time.
The core of successfully demonstrating the technology is ultra-low latency communication technology. The communication delay between a distance of over 10,000 km is less than 0.3 seconds. It has been demonstrated that factory facilities in Gyeongsan, Gyeongsangbuk-do can be controlled in real-time seamlessly from the University of Oulu in Finland.