Energy, Geothermal and Industrial Plant Operations

In energy and industrial plant operations, almost everything hinges on keeping things running. Miss a maintenance window or fall behind on a regulatory report, and it doesn’t much matter how well the rest of the operation is run, you end up with the same two outcomes: lost production and a safety exposure. Where the digital groundwork is missing, those two tend to show up together. Here is how one power plant turned that picture around.

Client Profile

A geothermal power plant. 24/7 operation, 40 employees, and more than 50 maintenance plans to track every year.

Challenges Faced

• Unplanned Downtime: Equipment was maintained after it broke rather than on a schedule. The plant waited for a failure, and the sudden shutdown turned straight into lost output.
• Regulations and Reporting: Reports for the energy market regulators were put together by hand, which was slow and left plenty of room for error.
• Energy Efficiency: No one was systematically tracking the conditions under which the plant ran at its best. It came down to experience and gut feel.

Solution Approach: Plant Management and Maintenance System

• Preventive Maintenance Planning: Equipment-level maintenance schedules, work orders that open automatically, and spare-parts inventory handled in the same system.
• Automated Reporting: Reports for the regulators generated straight from system data.
• Efficiency Monitoring: Real-time tracking of plant performance from sensor data, with automatic alerts whenever readings drift out of range.

Achieved Results

• Unplanned downtime dropped by 60%
• Maintenance costs fell by 25%
• Report preparation went from days to minutes
• Energy efficiency rose by 12%