Schedule Changes Citgo moved to Wednesday at 10:00 in Salon 10 replacing Saudi Aramco presentation Cascade moved on Wednesday from 8:00am to 8:45am in

Schedule Changes

• Citgo moved to Wednesday at 10:00 in Salon 10 replacing Saudi Aramco presentation

• Cascade moved on Wednesday from 8:00am to 8:45am in Salon 3 & 4

• Don Smith & John Matranga replace Polimeri presentation on Wednesday at 8:45 in Salon 10

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Reliant Resources’ Generation Information Environment (GIE) – Using ActiveView

Presented By:

Billy Crosby

Angelina Tran

Reliant Resources' Generation Information Environment (GIE) - Using ActiveView

Presentation Summary

Reliant Resources Company Overview

Business Drivers

System Scope

Leveraging User Community

Generation Information Environment (GIE)

Demo

Questions and Answers


Reliant Resources Company Information

Reliant Resources, Inc., based in Houston, Texas, provides electricity and energy services to retail and wholesale customers in the U.S., marketing those services under the Reliant Energy brand name. The company provides a complete suite of energy products and services to more than 1.8 million electricity customers in Texas, ranging from residences and small businesses to large commercial, industrial and institutional customers. Reliant also serves large commercial and industrial clients in the PJM (Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland) Interconnection. The company has approximately 20,000 megawatts of power generation capacity in operation, under construction or under contract in the U.S. For more information, visit our web site at http://www.reliantresources.com

http://www.reliantresources.com/




Business Drivers

Provide “Fleet wide” Plant Monitoring CapabilitiesLeverage Staff Expertise, by Providing Remote Monitoring & Diagnostics for Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)Support the Predictive Maintenance ProcessProvide Stations with Data and Analytical Tools to Support OperationsProvide Standard Database for Fleet Metrics:

Generation Data Fuel Usage - Gas Meter and Fuel Burn Data Emissions Data Unit Status and Control System States

Align with Power Generation’s Goal to be the Low Cost Power Producer


System Scope

Utilize an IT approach to Implementation and Systems Management

46 Plants

32 Plant PI Servers

5 Central PI Servers

90 API Nodes

199 Interfaces


System Scope

Common Plant Historian (CPH) Team has developed and supports:

Process Screens (680+)

Reports and Spreadsheets

Performance Equations and ACE Calculations

Performance Modeling

Provide Training to user community on GIE and OSI Tools


GIE : CPH Architecture


GIE : CPH Architecture



Site Champions identified for each plant and Central Support Services.Key individuals are responsible for maintaining a “Master” ProcessBook for their site.

Accountable for keeping site’s local copy Communicate change mgmt to PI Team

Subject Matter Experts / Specialist

Direction and Priorities are set by: Power Operations Management Plant Peer Groups (Coal, Combined Cycle, Cyclic, Peaking)



CPH Team works with our clients to gather and receive requirements.

Gather requirements through Site Champions and SMEs

Phone, Web Forms, Email, Internal User Group Meetings

CPH Team designs, develops, and tests applicationsCo-development of applications with the clients

Leverage existing work to minimize redundant development

Migrate into Production/GIE Environment

Proactive communication with clientRelationship development


GIE : ActiveView - Cheswick SO2


GIE : ActiveView – Coolwater Unit Overview


GIE : ActiveView - Ceredo Gen & TU Exhaust


GIE : ActiveView - Brunot Island Condensate


GIE : Technical References – SMT Tag List


GIE : Objectives

To share PI and technical information throughout the Corporation

Process Screens

Excel Reports

Word Documents

etc…

Enable the CPH Support Team to easily maintain the menu structure and content of the Reliant Resources’ GIE.

Provide a method of submitting requests and contacting the CPH Team

Provide answers to FAQs and share PI usage best practices

Give CPH Team a secure location for sharing files and conducting administrative tasks.


GIE : Structure

ActiveViewThis is the “Meat and Potatoes” section of the GIE

Dynamically Generated Hierarchical Menu

Houses Process Screens and various Plant Information Reports

Technical ReferencesDynamically Generated Hierarchical Menu

Houses Technical Documents, SMT Tag Dumps, etc…

System SupportPassword protected area for CPH Team to share files and carry out administrative tasks

Service RequestsAllows users to submit requests via web forms

Contact Us & FAQs


GIE : ActiveView - Performance Modeling


GIE : ActiveView - Automated Reporting


GIE : Technical References

This is where you will find helpful technical information relating to PI and the plants. This information can range from “Configuring your browser to access Active View” to specific plant hardware diagrams or SMT Tag Lists.


GIE : Service Request - Web Forms

Changes

Inquiries

Issues

Tag Requests

Screen

Development


GIE : Technical Overview

The Dynamic Menus are generated based on the structure of the Web Server’s directories and the files contained within them. This is done via a two step process.

Step 1:An ASP page will be run that reads the Folder/File structure of the server using the FileSystemObject (FSO) Object. This ASP page creates HTML strings based on that structure, which it then stores in the server’s cache via Application Variables.

Step 2:The menu will be created dynamically on the front end by another ASP page reading the HTML strings from the Application Variables in the server’s cache.

The menu is hierarchal based on the Folder Structure of the server.


GIE : Technical Overview (cont.)

Process 1:Create Menu

BuildHTML.asp

Use the FileSystemObject inorder to read the serversFolder/File Structure.Create HTML strings based onthat structure.Store those strings on theserver’s cache using Applicationvariables.

Process 2:Access Menu

Server

WorkstationBuild dynamic menu on frontend by accessing the HTMLstrings in the servers cache.

Intranet


GIE : Technical Overview (cont.)

Dynamically Displaying PDI files created with ProcessBook

Our key to dynamically displaying PDI files is an ASP page that acts as a container for the ActiveView ActiveX object.

This ASP page facilitates the following functions for the ActiveX object:

Checks the version of ActiveView the user has installed versus the version installed on the server. It will automatically update if needed.

Updates the known servers list on the clients machine

Informs the object of which file it needs to display


GIE : PI ActiveView System Requirements

Minimum Requirements for Web ServerWindows NT server 4.0, SP3 or greater

Microsoft Internet Services Personal Web Server Version 4.0 (PWS) or Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0 (IIS) or 5.0

Minimum Software Requirements for UsersWindows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0 SP3 or later, or Windows 2000

16 MB RAM (at least 32 MB RAM is recommended)

Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 or Netscape 3.0*

32 MB of hard disk space

* A Netscape browser may be used if you are not planning to download installation files from the Web site. The Netscape browser must also contain a plug-in enabling the use of ActiveX controls.

Requirements obtained from http://www.osisoft.com


Demonstration


GIE : Demo

Web Server GIE Menu

Root level menuCorresponds to Directory Structure of Web Server

Clicking on the West menu item will display the folders under the West,

just like in Windows Explorer

File that resides in the ActiveView Folder

Files that resides in the West Folder


GIE : Demo

Clicking on a file from the menu on the left will cause that file to open in the right hand side of the screen.

Information about the PDI files is passed to the Container ASP page.


GIE : Demo

Scrolling menuWhen necessary ActiveX Component allows for

scalable process screens.


Questions and Answers

Schedule Changes

• Citgo moved to Wednesday at 10:00 in Salon 10 replacing Saudi Aramco presentation

• Cascade moved on Wednesday from 8:00am to 8:45am in Salon 3 & 4

• Don Smith & John Matranga replace Polimeri presentation on Wednesday at 8:45 in Salon 10

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