2024 - AVEVA World - Paris - Power & Utilities
Drax: Maintaining reliable, low carbon power generation with AVEVA Predictive Analytics
This presentation will showcase the challenges Drax wanted to solve, the solution achieved through collaboration of Drax’s and AVEVA’s teams and its impact in daily use. This helps Drax provide reliable low carbon electricity.
Industry
Power and Utilities
Company
AVEVA
Speaker
David Smith
Dr. Smith is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer and holds a Ph.D. in Fluid Mechanics from Imperial College London. Spending the first half of his career in industry mainly with EPC companies, he lead design, development, and commissioning of Power Plant processes and combustion systems. Moving to AVEVA, Dr. Smith is responsible for AI Product Innovation in AVEVA with a particular focus on integration of AI technologies with AVEVA’s first principles simulation products for asset management and autonomous operations.
Company
Drax Group
Speaker
Samuel Plumb
Devolpment Engineer in the condition based maintenance team. Started working for Drax 6 years ago as a Control and Instrument Technician Apprenticeship. After my 4 year apprenticeship I spent a year on shift operations before becoming fully embedded in the CBM team at Drax. Daily Responsibilities are looking after the predictive analytics software and assisting and leading projects such as installing monitoring equipment. I also assist with Root Cause Analysis investigations where required.
Company
Drax Group
Speaker
Thomas Walker
Thomas Walker is a Condition Based Maintenance Engineer at Drax Group within power generation at Drax Power Plant. He has been with Drax for almost 2 years and previous to that has 10 years experience as a Reliability Engineer across various industries specializing in CBM technologies, maintenances strategies, asset criticality and RCA. At Drax his responsibilities include managing predictive analytics on site with over 500 models built and expanding to the wider areas of the group such as hydro plants. He is an SME in CBM technologies and is also heavilly involved in the overall asset management strategy as Drax looks to move more to a predictive and risk based strategy.
Session Code
AW24-PAU-D2-SESS-380
