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Asset Criticality Focus Boosts Indianapolis’ Power Network

Asset Criticality Focus Boosts Indianapolis’ Power Network
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CASE STUDY Project Summary Organization: Indianapolis Power and Light Company, an AES Company Solution: Utilities and Industrial Asset Performance Location: Indianapolis, Indiana, United States Project Objective: • Minimize power failures in the Indianapolis downtown underground power distribution network. • Improve data collection and inspection processes for more proactive maintenance and asset performance. • Implement asset reliability strategies to prioritize work orders and determine asset health. • Integrate work management processes to accelerate information mobility and optimize decision making. Fast Facts • IPL is a utility providing electricity in downtown Indianapolis and central Indiana. • IPL used AssetWise to initiate an asset management program to curtail equipment failures. • The team developed an internal asset management website linked to Bentley’s flexible, interoperable software to allow real-time, organization-wide access to asset information. ROI • AssetWise improved the transparency of the network’s operations and management. • Bentley applications made inspections and work order processes more efficient, decreasing network equipment failures from 49 in 2011 to 15 in 2016. Asset Criticality Focus Boosts Indianapolis’ Power Network AssetWise Decreased Electricity Grid Equipment Failures by 70 Percent A Unique Distribution Network A commercial and tourism hub, downtown Indianapolis, Indiana strategically located its numerous sports venues, event arenas, and convention center for easy pedestrian access amid city restaurants and hotels to boost the local economy. The city has hosted national sporting events, including several NCAA Men’s and Women’s Final Four tournaments and the 2012 Super Bowl, and attracts more than 26 million people annually, generating an economic impact of approximately USD 4.3 billion. Therefore, it is vital to the economy of the city that there is a safe and reliable source of electricity. Indianapolis Power and Light (IPL) is part of the AES global power supply company, which provides electric service in 17 countries across four continents. IPL is an integrated utility with three generating stations and a transmission and distribution network that provides service to more than 480,000 customers in the city of Indianapolis and central Indiana. The power company has a separate downtown network distribution system that serves Indianapolis’ central business district, which is approximately 10 square blocks. This separate system in the downtown area supplies power to only 2,600 customers, less than 4 percent of the total system loads, with multiple feeds. The system helps eliminate potential customer interruptions and makes it nearly 100 percent reliable. not impact customer service, these failures were highly visible and potentially dangerous to millions of city pedestrians and tourists. There had been fires and smoke that could smolder and produce combustible gases, which could launch a manhole cover 30 feet in the air if ignited. Although IPL initiated a variety of helpful logistical changes, the utility realized that it needed to work smarter and shift its business focus to a more asset-centric approach. This solution required enhancing and accelerating equipment inspections and recording methods as well as improving asset management processes. Having used Bentley’s AssetWise Asset Reliability (AssetWise) software to collect indicator data for its generating stations and substations, IPL evaluated the software to improve performance of the downtown network. Considering data collection, asset performance management, and communication, IPL’s Transmission and Distribution (T&D) Asset Management group needed a simple interface and flexible, customizable technology capable of integrating and analyzing data from a variety of sources. The group also needed help assessing asset health and risk and generating corrective work orders that could be managed in a collaborative environment accessible to all users to optimize decision making. Shifting to an Asset Performance Driven Process While most utilities invest where there are reliability issues, IPL had almost zero customer interruptions but had other problems that needed attention. The company’s complete underground network is made up of 72.2 miles of primary cable encased in concrete ducts, accessible via 1,200 manholes, and 315 transformers housed in 140 network vaults. An extremely asset-intensive network that shares corridors near the second largest steam system in the United States, the network had been experiencing numerous dramatic failures over the past five years. Although they did AssetWise manages the asset lifecycle of Indianapolis Power and Light Co

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"I have worked with a lot of software systems over the years and the Bentley software is one of the most flexible and configurable that I have ever used. There seems to be no limit to what one can do with the software" - Barry Feldman Director T&D Asset Management, AES/IPL Find out about Bentley at: www.bentley.com Contact Bentley 1-800-BENTLEY (1-800-236-8539) Outside the US +1 610-458-5000 Global Office Listings www.bentley.com/contact Digital Data Collection Enhances Inspection Efficiency All inspectors used a mobile frame for data collection with built-in business logic. They were...

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