Client - GE Power Systems

GE Power Systems is a global leader in the design, manufacture, installation, and maintenance of gas, nuclear, and steam-driven power generation plants. General Electric's second-largest division supplies products such as compressors, turbines, generators, and nuclear reactors. The unit also provides fuel and support services and equipment that supports oil and gas distribution.

Real-time monitoring and automation of problematic application

Real-Time monitoring of Power Turbines

Real-time monitoring and automation of problematic application

Business Problem

Had an online Turbine engine documentation system that was utilizing an optical storage device. The application was very problematic.
The application was being used by on-site technicians that were responsible for fixing malfunctioning equipment
The three on-call support staff was extremely overworked
Reports were not running in real time

Solution

Real-time monitoring and automation
Created a geographic representation of nationwide server network that remotely collected information from the servers and performed automation when failure occurred

Benefits

24/7 application availability
Pro-active problem notification
The day the solution went live, all three support people went on vacation
Significantly reduced man hours

Real-Time monitoring of Power Turbines

Business Problem

Customer wanted to “see how far we could go” and proposed a proof of concept to monitor Power Turbines.
Low level interfaces were already in place that reported via an IP network

Solution

Management solution was built to utilize the information from Power Turbines, in Real-Time
Oil pressure, electrical voltages and much more information was made available using the same management infrastructure

Benefits

Ability to correlate data between systems and machines

Footnotes

Real-Time monitoring of components that were not servers