The automation in国家热力公司(NTPC,www.ntpc.co.in)这是印度最大的国有发电公司,它成为众人瞩目的焦点,这是自动化如何有助于提高该国产生的电力质量和数量的独特例子。
射频标识的创新使用(RFID),视频会议和电子采购系统正在帮助印度的公共部门巨头监视其40个即将到来的项目地点,并更好地维护其现有工厂。
根据印度技术出版物的“ PC Quest”,NTPC在2010年印度最佳信息技术(IT)实施中赢得了最具创新性项目的第一名。
Dinesh Kumar, Executive Director-IT of NTPC was quoted by “PC Quest” as saying, “Innovative exploitation of technologies has brought complete information required by management and other stakeholders under one umbrella, leading to overall productivity enhancement. The Project Monitoring Center is one example of this initiative. And collaboration with external systems like FOIS (Freight Operations Information System) of Railways has led to availability of the right information at the right time.”
Coal train tracking
使用R的组合FID technology and the GPRS-based (General Packet Radio Service) Tracko system, National Thermal is able to track the movement of locomotives which carry coal to the plant’s unloading point. The system also notifies personnel in the event a breakdown, thus improving maintenance response times.
To ensure the security of National Thermal’s power plants, RFID tags have been deployed across the entire route of security force personnel who make their rounds. Each security officer has been armed with hand held terminals, which records the date and time of his visit. RFID is also used in keeping track of contracted drivers that enter the premises to collect the ashes from thermal plants.
作为该实施的一部分,NTPC还征服了IT团队通常面临的最大,最艰巨的挑战之一企业资源规划(ERP) application throughout an organization. Last year, Kumar and his team was neck deep in rolling out an SAP implementation across NTPC, and as change management initiatives were in full swing, Kumar decided to introduce a collaborative framework across the enterprise. This would not only help with change management, he reasoned, but also take the organization beyond the ERP deployment, enable increased productivity and reduce costs.
Payoff
Post roll-out, the new system is being leveraged to conduct crucial activities such as management committee meetings, project monitoring and reviews of upcoming thermal or hydro power generating projects. Management committee meetings take place regularly across all of the organization’s 40 locations with over 150 participants taking part simultaneously.
Dr. Ashok Matani, a Mechanical Engineering faculty member at the Government College of Engineering in, Amravati, Maharashtra, sees automation as an essential requirement for the survival of the power industry in India. “Having visible controls on all processes makes waste minimization, zero accidents and a high amount of accuracy possible. Automation, computerization, quality competitiveness and Lean Manufacturing are driving the industry today,” he said.
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Uday lal pai,udaylalpai@gmail.com,是印度的自由记者。
National Thermal Power Corp.
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