Plant Health Monitoring Service

How much is a healthy plant worth? What does it take to keep an aging plant healthy? Where can you find resources to help you detect and analyze equipment problems quickly?

The PCS Plant Health Monitoring Service can help you meet all of your plant goals by monitoring the entire plant, not just a single aspect of plant operation. Early detection of an impending equipment failure can be worth $100,000 or more. For a typical coal-fired unit, a 50 Btu/kWh improvement in heat rate can easily equate to a $250,000 annual fuel savings... and the fuel savings is only part of the story. Most issues that impact efficiency also impact availability, reliability, capacity, and emissions, combining to represent a payback in months or even weeks for this service. PCS will monitor your power plant using your existing historian, performance monitoring and/ or equipment condition monitoring systems from our remote monitoring control stations.

PCS Remote Monitoring and Reporting will provide you with the following:

• Periodic assessment of data and results
  • Review of data and results by highly experienced PCS personnel
  • Monthly reporting of findings/ recommendations via letter report
  • Immediate e-mail/ phone notification of identified critical problems
• Dedicated on-call personnel with broad expertise for performance support
  • Interpretation of trends
  • Root cause analysis
  • Determination of financial impacts
• Remote monitoring, analysis, diagnostics and reporting
• Best Practices for optimizing performance, availability, reliability, emissions
• Weekly/monthly status reports and/or conference calls
• Help Desk Support:
  • PCS help desk staff is available on call to help you with plant performance problems
  • Response time - guaranteed by the end of the following business day

PCS provides the distinct advantage of a dedicated team of highly experienced plant performance, maintenance, and operations personnel so you no longer have to rely on a single individual with many different responsibilities. At PCS, your plant's health is our top priority.

To see how PCS can help you with a performance assessment at your plant, contact us at 970-240-4381 or e-mail Performance Consulting Services.