2024 - AVEVA World - Paris - Power & Utilities
ENGIE: Introduction to Robin – the AVEVA PI System for asset monitoring and a use case on vibration monitoring
ENGIE’s purpose is to act to accelerate the transition towards a carbon-neutral economy, through reduced energy consumption and more environmentally friendly solutions. ENGIE has reshaped its portfolio of assets and build an organization to be the leader in the energy transition. Digitalization is an important lever to achieve our goals and we use data to make better decisions, be more agile and transparent. ENGIE has created a data historian platform called Robin that is based on AVEVA PI System. Robin is connected to assets from all over the world and from different types such as power plants, gas terminals, distribution networks, renewable assets, batteries, etc. The real-time data collected from these assets is used to improve their performance, reduce emissions, increase the availability and help with the valorization of the assets. Over time, ENGIE has developed a library of asset models and analytics on Robin to support these goals. The latest and greatest addition to Robin is an application for Vibration monitoring on large shafts of its thermal power plants. This solution is based on AVEVA PI System and offers a series of functionalities for operators in the control rooms and vibration experts.
Industry
Power and Utilities
Company
Engie
Speaker
Jan Willems
Jan Willems is working for 18 years in ENGIE with positions in Energy management and Thermal power generation. His background as an I&C engineer has led him to work on international projects for remote control of assets, performance and condition monitoring and control of emissions. Today he oversees a team of 15 experts that operate the Robin platform, based on Aveva PI. Robin is connected to a large number of industrial assets of the ENGIE group and aims in maximizing the value of data for ENGIE.
Company
Engie Laborelec
Speaker
Sébastien Grégoire
Starting his career at Laborelec in 1999 in the Rotating Machinery Vibrations Department, Sébastien participated in developing and deploying LVMS, Laborelec's own vibration monitoring system for large turbomachinery. From 2007 until 2010, he was in charge of Laborelec’s “Condition Monitoring, Condition Assessment and Predictive Maintenance” project, followed by three years in charge of Laborelec’s Diagnostic Center which offered remote monitoring services for power plants in the GDF Suez (now ENGIE) Group. From 2014, he managed the vibrations & Mechanics department and was in charge of remotely monitor more than 100 heavy-duty shaft lines around the world. Since 2022, Sébastien is Technical Referent for vibration-related activities within ENGIE.
Session Code
AW24-PAU-D2-SESS-349
