Designed to transform the management and maintenance of switchgear, ABB AbilityTM Asset Health uses digital insight to improve operation and maintenance efficiency by up to 40 percent, reduce losses caused by outage by up to 30 percent and optimize energy consumption by as much as 15 percent.
At today’s ABB Customer World 2018 held in Xiamen. China, ABB showcased its digital power distribution solution, ABB AbilityTM Asset Health, which enables greater flexibility, reliability and safety for switchgear and therefore reduces maintenance costs.
It is difficult to assess the operating health of switchgear in conventional substations, often resulting from a reduced operation and maintenance budget and a shortage of experienced operation and maintenance staff. Routine equipment inspections are not well targeted, and it is difficult to fully and effectively spot potential hazards.
Based on in-depth insights of real-time data, ABB’s solution allows customers to carry out asset health management, experience new services and simplify maintenance efforts. ABB has integrated its latest digital and sensor technologies to its widely recognized switchgear products, maximizing their performance and reducing costs for the customer.
Real-time monitoring of switchgear and the assessment of their health can help in the development of the right maintenance plan. Indeed, conventional maintenance approaches have been replaced by the service, based on condition monitoring and equipment failure prediction. The benefits brought by the new approach include an improvement in operation and maintenance efficiency by up to 40 percent, reduction in losses caused by outage by up to 30 percent and optimization of energy consumption by as much as 15 percent.
“Continuous equipment monitoring is crucial to effective management of electrical systems. With digital switchgear, it is easy to integrate such intelligent features as energy management, real-time diagnosis and remote monitoring and enable proactive management of electrical systems. With greater connectivity, these technologies make condition-based maintenance possible, thus optimizing operating costs and reducing the total cost of ownership.” indicated Alessandro Palin, managing director of ABB's Distribution Solutions business.
Extensive choices in smart and digital functions are available from ABB medium-voltage (MV) and low-voltage (LV) products:
- The intelligent medium-voltage solution with iUniGear switchgear and iVD4 circuit breakers offers multiple condition monitoring and diagnosis features to predict the possibility of failures. The solution provides online monitoring of temperature and dynamic temperature riser diagnosis. It also monitors the mechanical characteristics of the circuit breaker. To realize complete asset health management, the running environment and operational status of the assets are also continuously monitored, to enable customers to manage their power system in a completely new way.
- The MNS® Digital low-voltage digital switchgear solution, a part of the ABB Ability™ portfolio of digital solutions, provides several digital solutions to obtain the health status of the switchgear. Through Ethernet communication integration, all incoming lines, motors and feeders are connected and the comprehensive intelligent management tool collects and analyzes real-time operation data (such as current and voltage) to issue early warnings of the health of the switchgear, allowing customers to optimize their maintenance schedules. Advanced online monitoring technology monitors and analyzes the temperature of the joint place of the switchgear, such as the plug of a drawer, the copper bar connection of the circuit breaker, and the busbar conductor connection.
- MyRemoteCare is the platform of ABB Ability™ asset health for electrical systems, which can connect intelligent MV and LV equipment, such as iUniGear and MNS® Digital to the cloud. Real time information monitoring helps customers quantify the health status of equipment. Meanwhile, artificial intelligence mechanism algorithms help to predict the possibility of equipment failure, helping guide customers to optimize the state of their equipment. It also creates equipment asset health records and a professional maintenance plan, realizing the smart change from preventive maintenance to active predictive management.
Recently, ABB provided the ABB Ability™ Asset Health solution for electrical systems to a large petrochemical factory in China, helping them to manage nearly 1,000 units of medium voltage switchgear. Through the connected cloud platform, real-time operating data can be collected for operation optimizing.
ABB (ABBN: SIX Swiss Ex) is a pioneering technology leader in power grids, electrification products, industrial automation and robotics and motion, serving customers in utilities, industry and transport & infrastructure globally. Continuing a history of innovation spanning more than 130 years, ABB today is writing the future of industrial digitalization with two clear value propositions: bringing electricity from any power plant to any plug and automating industries from natural resources to finished products. As title partner in ABB Formula E, the fully electric international FIA motorsport class, ABB is pushing the boundaries of e-mobility to contribute to a sustainable future. ABB operates in more than 100 countries with about 147,000 employees. ABB has a full range of business activities in China, including R&D, manufacturing, sales and services, with 18,000 employees located in 142 cities, 40 local companies, and online and offline channels across over 300 cities.
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