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© 2008 Eventure Events. All rights reserved.

Architecting Powerful Portals

Martin Mysyk

Architecting Powerful PortalsAgenda

• Company Background

• Industry and Information Challenges

• Case Study – TransAlta’s ODC

• SAP Interactions and Modules

• Lessons Learned

• Summary

TransAlta – Company Background

• One of Canada’s largest non-regulated electric generation and wholesale marketing companies

• Founded in 1911• 50 Facilities operating in

Canada, United States, Mexico, and Australia

• 10,000 megawatts generating capacity

• Fuel mix of coal ,gas , hydro and renewables

Current Utility Industry Challenges

• Environmental Challenges

• Cost pressures on fuel sources

• Aging workforce

• Competition for scarce workforce resources (Alberta especially!)

• Pressure to provide uptime while reducing maintenance costs

• Companies are looking for solutions to mitigate these challenges

EnterprisePlants

Information Technology Strategic FrameworkThe BIG picture

Marketing

DATAHISTORIANDCS

EnterpriseReporting& Analysis

DASHBOARDS-- Executive-- Manager-- Supervisor-- Worker

CORPORATEINDICATORS

Visualization

Generation

Golden TagsGolden Tags

Operating Data

Automated Performance

Monitoring

Analytics

FIELDDEVICES

Engineering & Operations

Billing

Meter Vendors Meter Tags

Smart Signal

SAP

Planning, maintenance and operational tools

BusinessAnalysis

BusinessAnalytics

BusinessWarehouse

PMPSMMHRFI

CalculationsCalculations

Operational Diagnostic Center Vision

“The Operational Diagnostics Center (ODC) is intended to improve the bottom line for TransAlta, reduce the environmental impact of our operations and position us well for future growth opportunities while managing the aging demographic in our workforce.”

Plant to Fleet Data Flow

Distributed Control Systems (DCS) Historians

Business Intelligence

Reliability

KPI’sDashboards

Fleet Optimization

Plant Alarms, DCS Real-time Easy Access to Information

Plant Level Operations Dashboards

Engineering Applications Smart Signal

Predictive Monitoring

Optimization

Discrete data Limited value

ActionableInformation

Technology Experience

• Previous Portals and Portal connected technology – IBM, Plumtree, Netweaver

• SAP Customer since 1992 (Currently ECC6.0)

• Experience with vendor integration with SAP modules

• Experience working with vendors to surface iViews in portal for seamless user interface

Operational Diagnostics CenterDesign Principles

– Centralized engineering analyses of equipment performance

– Centralized equipment condition monitoring

– Condition based predictive maintenance plans

– Fleet visibility of equipment condition and performance to the TransAlta technical experts

– Direct interface with plant operators for alarm review and management

Previous Situation

InternetIntranet

Power PlantManager

PDA SAP R/3Databases DCS Scheduling Energy

Trading

Systems

User

Site

Management

GenerationOperations

Marketing

Complex information is hard to manage!

Enterprise-wide Decision Support

Power PlantManager

Users

Sites

Management

GenerationOperations

OperationalDiagnostic

Support

OperationalDiagnostic

SupportSystems

Marketing

Enterprise-wide Decision SupportThe Benefits

Role-based presentation of information

Provision of expert knowledge about the plants facilitates: Fast remedies in all plants Best practice sharing

Availability of power plant fleet as information for energy trading

Improvement of risk assessment and management :“2nd set of eyes”

Improved process control and low expenses for repair reduces costs

Increased MWh generation, especially at peak load times (elimination of bottlenecks)

Transparency and synergies created

Getting Started ODC Design Study Objectives

Initial engagement with vendor partner to develop:

– Current state of software

– Functional gaps

– Recommendations to address gaps

– Detailed scope and project schedule

FunctionalSpecs.

Design Study

Fleet BuildOut

PrototypeProduction

Build

Activities and Project Timelines

Getting Started Defining the “as is” landscape

• Analyze condition of installed historians

• Analyze reliability of data collection

• Review configured equipment diagnostics (SmartSignal) models

• Review configured Thermal Performance Monitoring systems

• Review configured off-line and on-line Vibration Monitoring systems

• Review DCS and Power IT landscapes

• Review configured SAP Plant Maintenance

• Review configured maintenance related workflows

• Review configured SAP Enterprise Portal

TransAlta ODC Power Portal: SAP EP, SAP PM and IP.21

PlantManager

User Roles- access rights via TA AD- info content via TA SAP EP portal page design

PlantsIP.21 based data collection

TA Management

ODCCenter

OperationalDiagnosticsTechnology

OperationalDiagnosticsTechnology

SAP EP navigation to portal pages--------------------SAP EP to ERP R/3 link

Technical / Engineering Center

Performance

Boiler / Equipment Diagnostics

Turbine / Vibrations

Performance

Boiler / Equipment Diagnostics

Turbine / Vibrations

Performance

Boiler / Equipment Diagnostics

Turbine / Vibrations

Centralized Operational Diagnostic CenterCentralized Operational Diagnostic Center

Executive Reporting

Trading Engineering

Maintenance

Leveraging Information and Resources

Integration ConsiderationsSAP PM and Siemens M3000

M3000 Case

Logging

M3000Early

warning

Diagnostic System

DCS

Field Device

etc.

Manual datainput

Signalsvia HART/Fieldbus or Profibusetc..

Pre-alarms processing

FaultNotification

EW NotificationSignal Values

Status Update

Alarms

1.

1.

2.

3.

4.

standard

optional

Relevant problems (Faults) influencing actual operation

Potential problems influencing future operationMaintenance or calibration of measurement unit necessary

Event registration

irrelevantsignals

x. Steps

Plant Maintenance

Work ordersplanning

Work ordersexecution

Status Update

Crystal Reports

Data Links

SAP Enterprise Portal

Early Warning System

Data Storage

Hierarchy (Aspen ODM)Data Structure

ODC Historian (IP21)

TransAlta Operations Diagnostic Centre

Plant D

ata

Predictive DiagnosticsThermodynamic Modeling

SAP PMDocument

Management

Case Logging Tool EWS InterfaceInterface Screens (Aspen Web 21)

Plant Data (Historian)Plant Data (Vibration

Analysis)

ODC Process Graphics

Alarm Processing WorkflowAdding Value to the Portal

DisappearScan-Off

EvaluatedNewAlert

Valid Fault

Case Resolved

Dismiss

WatchList

Corrective

Action Alarm Ack

SAP PM Fault

Notification

InspectionRepair

Case Resolved

Dismiss

Corrective

Action Alarm Ack

Analysis

Validation

ODC Early Warning System Operator Interface – Portal Presentation

ODC Business Processes

• When received in the ODC, alerts are investigated, following ODC process guidelines.

SPPA-M3000 - Case Logging

• Supports the following tasks:– Recording of cases in case logs

– Collecting significant signal value as KPI

– Documentation of shift crews

– Semi-automatic triggering of cases and fault notifications

– Overall evaluation of operational conditions

– Supporting shift takeover and handover

Case Logging – Shift Management

Case Logging –Shift Resources

Case Logging – Shift Detail

Case Logging – Cases

Case Logging – Case Detail

The Operational Diagnostics Center

Business Value of the ODC

• The ODC will input close to “real-time” process data to monitor equipment condition

• Provide immediate feedback to the Operations team. • Results in improved plant equipment performance – and

implementation of maintenance practices based on equipment reliability impacts and known equipment condition.

• Potential benefits include improved the heat rate, decreased fuel costs, improve plant reliability and reduced environmental emissions.

Business Value of the ODC

• Other business benefits:– Providing a central contact point and visibility for plant

operations

– Identify and correct plant equipment problems before they become a process concern – thereby avoiding catastrophic failure of critical equipment

– Measuring and sustaining other capital improvement projects’ benefits

– Plant alarm monitoring and back-up capability

– Improving knowledge retention, transfer and sharing

How We Did ITLessons Learned so Far

• Top design consideration was to create a portal with SAP interactions for diagnostic and performance monitoring using existing technology – Netweaver 7.0

• Justified the project based on the business value of having an operational diagnostics and performance center

• Learned what integration points from production to maintenance need to be addressed

• Need to move to a Netweaver CE 7.1 to take advantage of newer composition techniques

Summary

• Have a strong business case that motivates the project

• Work with integration partners where cost and time and resources are in short supply

• Know business processes that the solution is going to support

• Do a current technology assessment and identify gaps in moving to a portal solution

• Show value often and early – A prototype can do this

• Integration is key to taking the plant data and systems information to management in a meaningful way

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Martin MysykTransAlta Corporation

martin_mysyk@transalta.com