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AmerenUE is a medium-sized power electric utility based in the American Midwest. Ameren’s
Labadie power plant was looking for a solution that would enable them to monitor critical parameters around key equipment and detect abnormalities that are early indicators of impending equipment failure and unplanned downtime. The required technology would also automatically alert relevant personnel to the state of the equipment and pinpoint the cause of the deviation in behavior.
Ameren implemented Matrikon’s Equipment Condition Monitor to create an application for the continuous monitoring of the turbines in one of their generating units. With Matrikon Equipment Condition Monitor, personnel at the Labadie plant were able to use existing real-time and historical data systems, statistical tools and engineering knowledge to transform huge volumes of process data into actionable information to predict and prevent turbine failures, as well as improving their ability to focus and plan maintenance.