Data Analysis Training

For 25 years, individual companies and industry associations have turned to Solomon for its benchmarking and performance analysis. We understand that analysis does not end with reviewing the data—that is where performance improvement begins.

We offer on-site training at your company or organization to facilitate the analysis of GADS data to help identify and solve reliability, availability, and maintainability (RAM) problems at electric generating units. This workshop is helpful to availability engineers and system planners who use GADS data to gain a better understanding of overall performance and address operational issues.

 

Topics Covered

  • NERC GADS and IEEE-762 terms, definitions, and formulas
  • Calculating RAM statistics
  • Manipulating factors and rates
  • What does the data mean?
  • How to use the GADS NxL Analysis & Reporting software
  • Interfacing with other reporting and analysis tools

Prerequisites

This course is designed to be a follow-on to the GADS Data Collection training; hence, attendees should be familiar with the definitions and usage of the GADS design, performance, and event data collection process.

 

Length

8–12 classroom hours depending on class participants’ knowledge level.

 

Instructors

Classroom instructors have more than 30 years of power generation experience and more than 15 years GADS experience in the reporting and reliability analyses of fossil-steam, combustion turbine, combined cycle, and nuclear generating units at major electric generating companies in the US. Our staff is compromised of industry experts, including former availability support managers who are experienced with gas- and coal-fired steam, combustion turbine, combined cycle, and nuclear generating units. Additionally, our instructors are proficient in software development, having written the software used by NYISO in determining the UCAP/ICAP values for generating units, and are members of the ASME RAM committee and the IEEE Standard 762 Task Force.

 

Pricing

Pricing provided upon request.

 

Papers and Tutorials on Data Analysis Published by Training Staff

  • Benchmarking In Today's Competitive Environment, American Society of Mechanical Engineers – PWR-Vol. 34, Proceedings of the 1999 International Joint Power Generation Conference – Power, Volume 2, ASME 1999, July 28, 1999
  • Tutorial: The ABCs of RAM Improvement – Methods and Data, ASME International Joint Power Generation Conference & Exposition, July 25, 2000
  • Tutorial: Use of Reliability Data and Processes in the Competitive Power Marketplace, ASME 2001 International Joint Power Generation Conference & Exposition, June 6, 2001

 

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