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Operation & Maintenance of Power Plants 


BRINGING SAFETY INTO THE DIGITAL ERA P


art of the ABB Ability portfolio, the SafetyAPP for power generation and water customers enables plant employees to quickly report safety risks,


improve situational awareness and reduce potential safety risks. Since its introduction in 2014, SafetyAPP has driven the reporting of tens of thousands of safety risks and considerably reduced the number of serious incidents in Europe. Previously, reporting hazards was a lengthy paper-


based process that discouraged employee engagement and gave only a partial picture of safety in the company. With the SafetyAPP, businesses have immediate insights and traceability into the safety risks at their sites. Employees download the app to their smartphones and use it to report any hazard they observe at work, without having to return to their desks to issue a report in another software. Risks reported could range from a slippery floor to unsafe practices observed. In a simple five-step procedure, which takes about


two minutes to complete, employees name the risk they have observed, take a photo and briefly describe it. Once the report is sent, the app notifies the employee’s safety line manager, who then assigns a person to rectify the risk within a defined deadline. Not only does the app transform reporting, tracking and managing hazards into a simple procedure, it also raises staff awareness of safety and makes employees


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n February 2018, in front of an audience of international journalists and other visitors, ABB launched its ABB Ability Collaborative Operations for Power Generation


& Water. Driven from a new operations centre in Genoa, Italy, the new operating model enables leading power generation and water companies to improve operations and maintenance using digital technologies to collaborate with dedicated, co-located operations experts. Te Collaborative Operations Centre sets out to deliver information insights that can increase customers’ profitability and productivity through better asset performance, higher safety and security, reduced risk and lower costs. Te push toward digitalisation has


increased the amount of data available to customers. ABB Ability Collaborative Operations uses this data to provide more value to customers through information analytics, making this data more useful


more observant of safety hazard in their surroundings. ABB data shows that the more risks are reported, the fewer serious incidents occur. One company whose senior management


immediately saw the value in the app is multiutility Iren. “We have more than 6.000 employees working every day at several sites in our territories,” says Massimiliano Bianco, Iren’s chief executive officer. “ABB’s SafetyAPP helps keep our people safe by making it easy to report, track and manage hazards. Its digital format provides us with valuable information on safety at our sites, which we are using to raise awareness to a higher level.” l


for driving decisions that optimise plant and fleet performance. ABB says that Collaborative Operations is proven to provide: 20% extension of machine life by using immediate data analysis to better manage as-sets, processes and risks; 50% reduction in maintenance costs by using predictive rather than preventive and re- active maintenance practices; and deeper visibility into equipment, plant and fleet performance, enabling customers to better understand performance capability and operating boundaries. Speaking at the launch, Kevin Kosisko, managing director of ABB’s power generation and water business, said: “ABB Ability Collaborative Operations will help us bring the benefits of digitalisation to our customers in power generation and water by giving them information insights that lead to better business decisions.” Collaborative Operations employs ABB technologies, software and services to automatically gather and analyse


information on assets, processes and risks. Trough these analytics, performance improvement areas are automatically identified, categorised and prioritised so that customers at operating sites, working with ABB experts in Collaborative Operations Centres, can take actions to ensure that each plant is operating within regulatory, load, environmental and cyber security requirements. Collaboration is scalable to customer needs, capable of being applied at a device or process level, up to plant and enterprise-wide operations. Te company already operates 15 Collaborative Operations Centres for various industries worldwide. And alongside the Genoa centre, two more centres for power generation and water will open in 2018, in Singapore and Germany. Kosisko believes a key part of the future success of this collaborative approach to be interconnectivity – between power plants, software systems and more. He states that, “When we decided to use AI,


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