E.ON Westfalen Weser Energie-Service GmbH
improves plant management at the
central Info Center
Energy Management Suite Reference
Instrumentation, Controls & Electrical
SPPA-M3000 Plant Management
acquires the data of all plants operated by
E.ON Westfalen Weser Energie-Service GmbH
locally and processes them at the central
Info Center. The plant management system
thereby significantly enhances the overview
capability and the status of all plants.
The Result
■ Reduced costs due to lower
training, administration and
maintenance costs
■ Increased efficiency due
to significantly better
commitment planning
■ High degree of acceptance
due to ease of operation
and expansion capability
The Plant
E.ON Westfalen Weser Energie-Service GmbH
is a wholly-owned subsidiary of E.ON Westfalen
Weser AG, a large German regional utility
company with its headquarters in Paderborn.
The company operates a combined-cycle
power plant at Kirchlengern as a power reserve
which can be activated within minutes. A
large number of distributed generation plants
are operated and monitored along with E.ON
Westfalen Weser AG from the same location.
Fault management is also handled from here.
The Task
In order to ensure optimized plant commitment
planning, the responsible shift managers at
the Info Center must be informed at all times
about current commitment planning, about
error and completion messages for the
individual plants, etc. This requires accurate
on-site data conditioning and the compilation
of all information in adequate form at the
control center. Another objective, in addition
to greater planning reliability, was reduced
training and maintenance costs.
Our Solution
The decentralized Plant Management System
has been acquiring operational data at the
various locations for years. This local information has now been compiled and displayed
centrally on a screen at the Info Center.
This means that information from all plants
is available online around the clock.
Commitment planning and work monitoring
can be performed by the central commitment
planner at the Info Center. System expansion
is possible fast and without any additional
development costs.
"Plant management has proven
to be exceptionally successful.
It is simple to use and gives the
shift managers at the Info Center
precisely the information they
require for optimized plant
monitoring."
Thorsten Gößling, Power plant production
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