Using the Common Information Model for

Asset Health
at Tennessee Valley Authority
Gowri Rajappan - Doble
Pat Brown - EPRI
Melbourne CIMug Meeting
February, 2014

Tennessee Valley Authority

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 TVA was established by the U.S.

Congress in 1933 through the TVA Act
A federal non-profit corporation funded
entirely by power sales
o TVAs mission includes

Affordable electricity

Economic development

Environmental stewardship

Technological Innovation

Service Area:

Tennessee Valley Authority

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7-state region

9 million people

37,300 MW Summer Net Capacity

16,086 circuit miles

500 Subsations

99.999% Reliable

TVA Field Data for Asset Management and

Operations
The Business Challenge
Aging fleet past design life
Limited resources
Aging workforce
Hueristic decision-making
The Need
Accurate insight into asset health
for accurate decision-making

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Replace?
Repair?
Monitor?

TVA Field Data for Asset Management and

Operations
The Vision
Asset health intelligence across enterprise
Intelligence
Asset condition
Asset operating environment
Evolve toward Optimized Asset Management
Asset condition =
nameplate + maintenance records + test records +
inspection records + historic field measurements
Operating environment =
loading + criticality + position

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TVA Field Data for Asset Management and

Operations
. .
The IT Challenge
Data location
Data format
Data stewardship

. .

field
measurements
maintenance

nameplate

test

inspection

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Existing Utility Analytics Environment

..

..

..

Work
Management
System

Asset
Field
Manager Maintenance

Engineer

Results to Applications

Visualization of Results

..

..
Planner

Asset
Manager

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Maintenance
Management
System

..
Field
Maintenance

Test
Records
Database

..
Engineer

RTUs
IEDs
Sensors
Monitors

Operations Field Data

Asset
Management
System

Asset Field Data

Analytics

Data Sources
EMS
SCADA

..
Operator

Integration Framework for Analytics

..

..

..

..

..

EMS
Contingency
Analysis

Planner Engineer
Asset
Field
Operator Manager
Maintenance

Work
Management
System

Results to Applications

Visualization of Results

Insight
CIM

Data Integration (analytics results)

Analytics

CIM

Maintenance
Management
System

Test
Records
Database

Data

..

..
Planner

Asset
Manager

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..
Field
Maintenance

..
Engineer

RTUs
IEDs
Sensors
Monitors

Operations Field Data

Asset
Management
System

Asset Field Data

Data Integration (source data)

Data Sources
EMS
SCADA

..
Operator

The CIM for Asset Health

The CIM is a
data model
Expressed in
Unified Modeling
Language
(UML)
Classes
Attributes
Relationships

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The CIM for Asset Health

Supports the definition of
Assets and asset components
Asset nameplate information
Asset procedure results
Tests (factory and field)
Inspections
Maintenance
Asset electrical grid position

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The CIM for Asset Health

Instance Diagram for Sample Asset

Asset
Component
Templates

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Procedure
Results Models

Asset Template Classes

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Asset
Component
Templates

Asset Template SF6 Dead Tank Breaker

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Asset
Component
Templates

Asset Template Bulk Oil Breaker

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Asset
Component
Templates

Asset Template Air Blast Breaker

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Asset
Component
Templates

Procedure Results Model

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Procedure
Results Models

Breaker Dashboard using Intgrated Data

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For more information

On Asset Health at TVA
contact John Stewart jwstewart@tva.gov
or Paul Barnett rpbarnett@tva.gov
On the Common Information Model
The CIM Users Group website: www.cimug.org
The EPRI CIM Primer, edition 2: www.epri.com
search for product ID 3002001040

On the CIM for Asset Health

The CIMug Asset Health Focus Community
contact Gowri Rajappan grajappan@doble.com
or Pat Brown pbrown@epri.com
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