Power Engineering
The challenge CPA has to face is to pursue new ways for the improvement of operational safety, plant management, plant utilization and internal logging as an integrating solution for power generation.
CPA's task for a power station of the Deutsche Bundesbahn, the German Railways, for instance, was to provide for a control system with three networked computers that has to ensure telecontrol links to external stations and integrate cascade controls of suppliers (SPC) besides the classical requirements such as data acquisition, plant visualization and plant management, data filing and logging.
Furthermore, it was a prerequisite to run the power station automatically with a load program that can be preset via a computer interface and to ensure plant optimization according to the given water supply and different flood situations.
CPA developments frequently venture also into areas for which technology did not provide any suitable problem solutions. Together with a well-known company of the electrical industry CPA developed a computer-assisted large generator monitoring and expert system that considerably improves plant management of major machine sets.
The idea behind was to log completely the total thermal, electric and vibrational behavior of machine sets over long periods of time, to analyze these data by an expert system and to give the operating staff real-time tips and hints as well as forecasts on plant conditions and their chronological development.
This allows a higher degree of availability, specific audit periods and an exploitation of machine sets beyond the specification of the plant originally guaranteed by the machine manufacturer.
The resulting flood of data and the extreme demands on processing speed and operating safety demonstrate clearly the high performance and efficiency of CPA control system products.
Power and Performance - that's CPA
