Monitoring & Diagnostics, Cables Services
Asset Audits
With SAFE Asset Audits, Siemens personnel visit substations for an inspection – ranging from visual inspection all the way to extended diagnostics, providing the basis for a targeted maintenance strategy for important substation assets like high-voltage gas-insulated switchgear (GIS), high-voltage circuit breakers, and power transformers.
Our service offerings for cables currently comprise cable condition-assessment services, cable fault-location services, and cable quality-assurance/supervision services. These services apply to specific applications in power transmission and distribution, subsea cables, and offshore wind, oil, and gas as well as in nuclear power generation. In all cases, we use a patent-pending analysis technology. This system assesses and monitors the overall degradation of the cable insulation caused by harsh environmental conditions like high temperatures, humidity, and radiation. It also detects local degradation of the insulation material as a result of mechanical impacts or local abnormal environmental conditions.
Online Condition Monitoring / ISCM®
The condition of your assets is highly relevant to your decision-making about service or replacement. With insight into condition, the transition to condition based maintenance (CBM) can take place. Pending failures can be repaired before a breakdown occurs. Siemens offers both on-site audits and also – Online Condition Monitoring stand-alone or integrated.
With Integrated Substation Condition Monitoring (ISCM®) Siemens provides online asset condition information through a comprehensive range of innovative tools for diagnostic analysis. Through prediction and prevention of equipment failures, ISCM® protects your company’s image as well as your investment. The integrated monitoring system guarantees minimum downtime, maximum asset performance, nearly real-time rating, and extended lifespan. ISCM® is a fundamental prerequisite for securing your required performance level, and with it your long-term entrepreneurial success.
The Siemens ISCM® solution, customized to the individual requirements of the substation, monitors all relevant components of the electricity supply network – from transformers (e.g. SITRAM integrated condition monitoring system) and switchgear to overhead lines and cables. It can be seamlessly integrated into the existing substation communication and visualization infrastructure, from simple bay controllers to high-end control center applications. Siemens offers one integral solution for all network assets. ISCM® provides a highly reliable solution, based on expert knowledge and advanced technology. With its unique proficiency and experience along the entire energy conversion chain, Siemens is ideally positioned to supply a sophisticated, comprehensive monitoring concept that covers all equipment within the power supply.
Remote Service
Remote Services are performed by our Remote Diagnostics Center – in short, RDC. Remote services on the one hand support your daily business with remote expert consulting, troubleshooting, and fault investigation, and on the other hand support our O&M contracts with online Integrated Substation Condition Monitoring (ISCM®) and innovative services for substations and transmission and distribution grids.
At a glance, the RDC offers:
- ISCM®, including expert diagnostics
- Remote supervision
- Remote services for operation and maintenance contracts
- Online asset data
- Remote troubleshooting
The RDC enables asset data management tailored to the customer’s needs. With these elements, the implementation of efficient maintenance concepts like condition-based maintenance and minimization of reaction times are applicable to our O&M offerings.
Due to the RDC’s flexible configuration, operations can take place near the customer and advanced condition analysis can take place centrally. Customers can share condition data but keep control and protection data private. Close cooperation between the Remote Diagnostic Center and the Energy Customer Support Center offers our customers one central point of contact