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INTELLIGENT VERTICAL: ENERGY
PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE
CAN UNLOCK LOWER COSTS
AND BETTER PERFORMANCE
FOR AFRICAN UTILITIES
Colin Beaney, Global Industry Director for Asset-intensive and
Energy and Utilities at IFS, says African power utilities need to
find ways to optimise their business.
A
frican power utilities are evolving
as they are unbundled into
separate generation, transmission
and distribution companies and as they
come under growing pressure to service
unserved communities as well as to support
industrial growth.
They need to find ways to optimise their
businesses. To combat current challenges
such as ageing workforces, ageing assets,
rising costs and growing user expectations,
their approach to maintaining assets must
be more strategic and optimised.
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Investment for modernising transmission
and distribution equipment is limited,
so utilities are looking to get more from
their existing infrastructure. Preventive
maintenance schedules alone are
not effective enough in helping utility
organisations to avoid asset failures and the
associated costs.
Getting more from old infrastructure
According to an ARC Advisory Group
research report in 2015, 82% of assets have
a random failure pattern, which renders
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INVESTMENT FOR
MODERNISING
TRANSMISSION
AND DISTRIBUTION
EQUIPMENT IS
LIMITED.
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