Outage Management System (OMS): PowerManager

In the power generation industry, efficient outage management is crucial for operational success. PowerManager, a real-time command, control, and communication system, is your partner in achieving this operational excellence.

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Crafted by Integ Consulting, PowerManager integrates all plant-related outage events and activities, dispatch instructions, event logs, unit capabilities, and reporting into one comprehensive solution. PowerManager not only optimizes your outage response, minimizing downtime, but also ensures accuracy, timeliness, and compliance in GADS Outage Reporting.

PowerManager's Role in GADS Outage Reporting

Outage reporting is a critical aspect of outage management. According to NERC's Generating Availability Data System (GADS), power generation companies must report outage data for statistical analysis and reliability assessment. PowerManager revolutionizes GADS Outage Reporting by ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and complete regulatory compliance. Its advanced features automate and streamline GADS reporting, enabling you to focus on your core operations.

The Power of Now: Real-Time Outage Management

Effective Real-Time Outage Management is pivotal to minimizing the impact of an outage. With PowerManager, businesses can monitor outages in real time, orchestrating a swift and effective response.

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Benefits of Outage Management Software

Core Functions of PowerManager

• Consolidates outage, log, plant status and dispatch instruction events into a single plant management process.
• Proven, secure, enterprise-level system that can handle up to several hundred users.
• Centralized, web-based system allows users distributed over wide geographic locations to utilize one system for all their requirements, from data collection to analysis, and reporting.
• Supports the large quantity of data that flows through numerous processes during the short-term planning phase and real-time operations.
• Integrates the entire outage management process between the central office and the various ISO systems.
• Accommodates flexible processes by allowing users to define their own plant event parameters and process rules.
• Offers a flexible, customizable, configurable system that will fit into current processes and not the other way around.
• Consolidated plant status reporting and provides management a snapshot of plant information during any given time period.
• Only solution on the market which integrates all key processes between plants and commercial operations.  

• Outage Management: PowerManager's Outage Management System allows you to request and create real-time/future plant outage events, forecast limits, and submit outage information to various ISOs, thereby maximizing operational efficiency.
• Dispatch Instruction: Ensure seamless communication of dispatch instruction between plants and dispatchers. PowerManager ensures seamless communication of dispatch instruction between plants and dispatchers. It also forecasts real-time instructions using compliance or economic base points, shows the financial return on suggested instructions, and notifies of performance deviation from the suggested instruction.
• Log Book Management: Efficiently administer operational logs (Dispatcher/Supervisor/Shift Logs) and log phone call conversations.
• Unit Capabilities: PowerManager empowers plant operators to review capabilities and request modifications with one source application. It also validates capabilities against the operating conditions of the plant.
• Plant Startup: Forecasts start-up schedules for day-ahead bidding and modify start-up schedules in the event of change in operating conditions.
• Reporting: PowerManager generates various fixed daily plant reports and provides ad-hoc reporting capabilities.