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Power generation optimization
A new generation of challenges
Today's power generation companies face fundamental changes in how they build and operate assets. Energy demands continue to strain the fuel supply. Carbon emissions are growing. Emerging economies are meeting energy needs with conventional plants, while developed nations face pressure to construct cleaner power facilities. Global interest therefore focuses on new nuclear generation, extended use of existing nuclear plants, clean coal plant construction, and renewable and distributed energy.
Knowledge is power
Our power generation optimization solutions can help you improve the design, construction, supply, safety and operation of your power plants. We begin by gathering comprehensive data with digital sensors and advanced communication networks, then analyze it with sophisticated applications.
The resulting information is interconnected throughout your company—made available in near real time to the right people and processes through our world-class delivery platform based on service oriented architecture (SOA). Both highly cohesive and loosely coupled, the applications promote collaboration and extend your current investment in applications, systems and infrastructure.
Our advanced solutions are designed to turn information into insight. Let IBM help you re-visualize and optimize plant operations. Improve planning to expand supply. Understand better how the complexities of nuclear, clean coal and other advanced generation technologies will affect your business. And improve regulatory compliance and policy effectiveness through more timely and accurate operational reporting.
Fuel more efficient operations
IBM's solutions and consulting services—spanning nuclear, fossil and renewable sectors—can help you:
- Enhance asset utilization and unit availability.
- Manage knowledge loss and human capital.
- Manage a new plant information lifecycle.
- Incorporate high-performance computing and visualization into operations.
- Optimize market interaction—fuel, electricity, emissions.
- Assure regulatory compliance, and plant and data security.
- Manage new build process.
Power tools
Our asset data and lifecycle management solutions can address virtually all areas of operations. They include:
- IBM® Maximo® Asset Management for energy and utilities, to manage diverse and dispersed assets with a single system.
- IBM WebSphere® Business Integration for energy and utilities, for full productivity from physical and human resources.
- IBM FileNet® for document management capabilities, to simplify compliance and reporting.
- Intelligent plant lifecycle management, to help manage data for the best capital efficiency, and plant availability and reliability.
- Enterprise content management for energy and utilities, to customize the solution to your business.
- Human capital management for energy and utilities, to maximize operational efficiency by aligning employee and company objectives.