Availability Management System

The Availability Management System (AMS) provides comprehensive tools for tracking and managing time-based availability across different standards and contractual requirements.

What is the Availability Management System

The Availability Management System (AMS) is a comprehensive framework that enables management of different types of time-based availability for renewable energy assets. The system supports industry standards such as IEC and GADS (North America) while also accommodating contractual or custom availability requirements.

AMS provides a OEM-independent framework based on allocation categories and event code mapping for each allocation type. This flexibility allows one to track availability according to multiple standards simultaneously and manage downtime analysis across different stakeholder perspectives.

Key benefits

AMS delivers the following benefits:

  • Seamlessly manage different types of time-based availability
  • Use IEC and GADS (North America) standards for availability tracking
  • Manage contractual or custom availability requirements
  • Implement metadata that is tailored to your contract
  • Negotiate with OEMs or service providers for downtime adjustments
  • Backfill bulk noncommunicating hours to seamlessly fill data gaps
  • Allocate losses to relevant buckets for reliability and downtime analysis
  • Use an OEM-independent framework based on allocation categories and event code mapping
  • Manage and audit complete usage edit history
  • Use a save and publish mechanism to review and finalize availability KPIs

Key functions

AMS provides the following core functions:

  • Reallocate single or bulk root cause event codes
  • Reallocate single or bulk allocation types across different allocation categories
  • Split event log time duration for durations exceeding 20 minutes (10-minute data cadence)
  • Reset event edits operations to their last edited state
  • Filter time range or set of turbines to be edited
  • Filter datasets among different allocation types
  • Load event logs of a single month for bulk edits
  • Add comments to event logs for downtime details or causes of delay
  • View complete user edit history (who edited, what, and when)
  • Preview availability before publishing and view publishing history with timestamps