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ORAP® New User Orientation
Carlos Garcia
Strategic Power Systems, Inc.
March 4, 2007
Who is Strategic Power Systems (SPS)?
 Information Technology and Reliability Engineering Co.
– Compiling Reliability, Availability and Maintainability (RAM) data
 Focus
– Gas and Steam Turbine Plants
• Power Generation
• Oil and Gas
 Industry Methodology
– Common coding structure (EBS & KKS)
– IEEE and ISO standards
– NERC and WEC compliant
– Strong support from EPRI
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SPS & WTUI
SPS Introduces
ORAP Parts Tracking™
SPS Introduces 1st
PC Based Entry Tool
SPS Incorporated
Albany, NY
SPS Introduces
ORAP Interactive™
web-based reporting
SPS moves to
Charlotte, NC
SPS notetakers
at WTUI
1987
2007
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WTUI Founded
1991
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Introduced Parts Tracking &
Configuration Management
Module in ORAP
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SPS Installs 1st
ORAP LINK™
at CP&L
2001
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2006
SPS Introduces
ORAP Cycles
Tracking™
Legend
GE Aero ORAP Contract
SPS Supports WTUI
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Base ORAP®
 Proprietary database
– Operating and maintenance information on total plant
equipment
 Benchmarking
– Customer and market reports
 Participants submit data on a monthly basis
 Quarterly reports provided to participants
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Data Requirements
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Event Data:
- Begin Date/Time/End Date
- Outage Type (Forced, Scheduled, Unscheduled, Derating)
- Component (Equipment that caused the Event)
- Outage Mechanism (Failure or Maintenance Reason)
- Detailed Narrative (Symptom, Corrective Action Performed
and Root Cause of Outage)
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Operational Data:
- Service Hours
- Reserve Hours
- Attempted and Successful Starts
- MW Hrs Generated or Hp, ETC
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Counter Reading Data:
- Total Service Hours
- Factored Hours/Equivalent Hours
- Total MW Hrs Generated
- Total Starts, ETC
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Data Output
Compares plant
component data on
a yearly basis
Compares all your unit(s)
maintenance factors and %
on a per year basis
RAM Benchmarking
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ORAP Benefits
 Preventative Maintenance
– Trends across the Fleet
– Breakdown by components and sub-components (total plant)
– Availability
– Reliability
– Service Factor
– Starting Reliability
– Outage Factors
– Mean Time Values
 Benchmarking
– Your unit vs. total Fleet in ORAP
– Your unit vs. Best in Class Performers in ORAP
 Forecasting… e.g. Hot Section Overhauls
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Revenue Opportunity
 Extended Intervals Between Maintenance & Engine Removals
 Determine Source of Downtime… Frequency & Duration
 Define Parts Life Limits Empirically
 ORAP Provides Critical Information That Helps You Better
Understand Your Business
 ORAP Will Help Your Business Be Profitable
 Industry Expectations… Return on Investment Must Result In…
– 5% reduction in inventory…
– 5% reduction in planned maintenance…
– 25% reduction in unreliability…
– 10% reduction in RO costs…
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Who Uses ORAP… Just a Sample
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Why ORAP?
 Largest and Most accurate RAM database
– All OEM Gas and Steam Turbines
– All markets
 Benchmarking
– Your unit vs. the Fleet and Best in Class
 Close Relationship with OEMs
– ORAP supports design and quality efforts with many OEMs
 Customer Focus
– Value-added service supporting participants and OEMs
 Open minded
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Questions?
www.spsinc.com
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Visit our Booths! – 517 & 616
$100 American Express Gift Card
 Register to WIN an Apple iPod Nano and a AMEX gift Card!
 Join ORAP here at WTUI
– We will send everything you need to your email
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Detailed ORAP Screenshots
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Event Data
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Input - Events Screen
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Input – Counter Data
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Input – Operational Data
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