A revolution in progress
The criteria of Operation and Maintenance today are under stress due to the ongoing industrial revolution.
byAndrea Tonin, Fiorenzo Stevanato
From the transformer monitoring to the predictive maintenance
We live in an era where technology is advancing at an unprecedented velocity. The offering of sensors, with affordable prices, measuring multiple physical parameters has increased immensely. This evolution, accompanied by the availability of automatic data processing and also through Artificial Intelligence (AI), determines a further push of “Industry 4.0” in the field of power systems and is leading what we call the “Smart Grid.”
In this situation, we need to handle the exponential growth of data and leave the old criteria of Operation and Maintenance.
The world of power transformers follows this revolution process with a delay, typical for the conservative electrical sector, where the reliability of available technologies is preferred over innovations and new technologies.
While the development of construction technologies and materials has long been in a saturation curve, the criteria of Operation and Maintenance today are under stress due to the ongoing industrial revolution.
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