Investigate vibration changes before equipment fails.
Changes in vibration, temperature and output can reveal developing faults. Review those trends alongside operating conditions and maintenance history to decide what needs investigation.
The signals that actually lead
- Vibration velocity
- mm/s RMS against the ISO 10816-3 zone boundaries. Evaluate the trend against machine-specific limits and operating conditions
- Power curve deviation
- Output against the manufacturer curve at the measured wind speed. Separates a dirty blade from a calm day
- Standby autonomy
- Measured ride-through to generator, not the nameplate figure
- Balance of plant
- Ventilation, service water, standby power and environmental monitoring — the building services around generation
- Availability
- The number the contract is written against, which is consumed by events nobody logged
- Curtailment
- Output withheld for grid reasons, which has to be excluded before underperformance means anything
ISO 10816 / 20816 and IEC 61400-25
ISO 10816 and its successor 20816 define mechanical vibration evaluation by zone — the A/B/C/D boundaries an alarm limit is actually drawn from. IEC 61400-25 covers communications for wind power plant monitoring, which is the vocabulary a turbine SCADA already speaks.
Alerts cite the zone boundary rather than a tuned number, so a threshold can be argued with on its merits. Where a pack models nuclear site services, its scope is stated on the pack itself: balance-of-plant and building services only.
Reactor protection and safety instrumented functions are excluded by design. Those systems are qualified, licensed, and nowhere near a building management platform.
What an unplanned gearbox change costs
A gearbox caught in the alarm band is a planned lift with a crane booked. The same gearbox caught after failure is an unplanned lift, a longer outage, and whatever the weather window does to both.
The difference is not detection — the vibration was there either way. It is whether anyone was watching the gradient rather than the threshold.
Power and grid infrastructure
Build, commission and hand over
Review substation and generation equipment records, commissioning evidence and asset handover packages. Track unresolved issues across distributed infrastructure.
Operate and maintain
Relate alarms and equipment trends to maintenance history and procedures across power, grid and renewable-energy assets.
Systems in scope: SCADA, RTUs, historians and CMMS. Integration scope depends on the installed system, available interfaces and agreed access. Explore the terminology.
Configure the platform around your equipment.
Start with a relevant industry pack, then tailor its equipment points, monitoring rules and alerts to your specifications. Combine it with compatible custom models and map checks to the standards and procedures your team works to.
See how industry packs adaptIt reads your SCADA, not a new sensor network.
Start with available historian exports or an approved OPC interface. We will check signal coverage, timestamps and access before proposing additional instrumentation.