Tata Consulting Engineers' DigitalPoint uses AI to monitor circuit breakers in real time and predict failures before they happen. It gives you a health score for each component, alerts you when maintenance is needed, and estimates how much longer equipment will last. The result: fewer unexpected outages, lower costs, and safer operations.
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Tata Consulting engineers with decades of domain expertise in transmission and distribution system has leveraged artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data analytics to develop a digital point solution for circuit breaker performance monitoring and diagnosis. This digital point solution can be used in various sectors such as power, oil and gas, and electrical utilities. It can be used in both greenfield and brownfield projects to improve the availability of circuit breakers while minimizing the risk. Now let us look into the circuit breaker operation and its significance. Circuit breakers are critical components of power systems. The main functions of circuit breakers are Switching on and switching off of an electrical circuit. To interrupt short circuit current. To secure open and closed position. Apart from the main functions, circuit breakers must behave as a good conductor during closed position and as a good insulator during open position. Also, a breaker should withstand the overvoltage generated during switching and should be highly reliable during operation. The major components of a circuit breaker are interrupting unit, FS6 gas monitoring system, drive mechanism, main insulation, electrical control. Now let's look at the conventional management of circuit breaker. Usually plants collect design data, operation data, maintenance data, and environmental data related to circuit breaker. Most of this data normally remains unused used, and in case of any abnormality or failure, the data related to the event is retrieved and analyzed to find the root cause manually. This conventional approach may lead to unanticipated outages, unavailability of the system, and higher maintenance costs. The shortcomings of the conventional approach are: absence of real-time breaker health assessment, Increased downtime due to unforeseen failures. Higher maintenance costs. Increased probability of health and safety hazards. All these shortcomings can be addressed using a holistic predictive maintenance approach. Let us look at how TCE's DigitalPoint solution help in real-time health monitoring and predictive maintenance of circuit breaker. The DigitalPoint solution aids in real-time monitoring of overall health score of circuit breaker, providing component Mitwise Health Score breakup, providing alerts and recommending remedial measures for any parameter deviation, optimizing maintenance schedules, estimating remaining useful life, centralized monitoring of various circuit breakers. The DigitalPoint solution offers many benefits such as reduction in outages, downtime, and maintenance cost, improvement in reliability, and availability, reduction in health and safety risk, optimal utilization of resources, ultimately improving plant profitability. Patek Consulting Engineers, your trusted partner for digital solutions. Stay tuned to this space to know more about our upcoming digital point solutions.
