JAPAN-BASED Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS) opened on Friday a Global Service Center (GSC) in Manila for thermal power-plant operators.
The GSC will support the optimal operation and maintenance (O&M) of thermal-power plants, harnessing the latest information and communications technology (ICT), such as remote monitoring, and MHPS’s extensive accumulated knowledge of thermal-power systems.
In addition, it will provide training to increase the expertise of clients’ O&M engineers.
MHPS President and CEO Takato Nishizawa and EVP Masao Ishikawa presented an outline of GSC and its services for thermal-power plants using ICT.
MHPS will use GSC as a base to offer comprehensive services to a wide range of operators, including remote monitoring, control and single-point centralized management that is optimized for each power plant. This includes clients currently using generation equipment supplied by other manufacturers. The company will promote enhancement of client asset value through achieving improvements in plant availability and efficiency.
The center will have three main functions. The Service Solution Center will act as a “one-stop shop” for client needs, providing services, such as management of maintenance parts and dispatch of emergency personnel.
The Remote Monitoring Center, meanwhile, will not only perform remote monitoring but will also provide solutions for improving O&M.
The Training Center will feature an operations simulator to facilitate response training for various scenarios to enable client engineering teams to acquire advanced skills.
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