GE P&W InSight User Manual

Fact Sheet

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InSight*

Knowledge Management Solutions

Water and process applications generate or directly
affect vast amounts of operating data that can be
chemical, physical or performance in nature. Left
unmanaged, these meaningful insights that play an
integral part in lowering the total cost of operation,
are often unseen and lost.

Effective water and process operations depend on
data transformed into meaningful and actionable
information that enables:

 Visualizing current conditions and their

trajectory

 Diagnosing problems and seeing opportunities

for improvement

 Alarming on events or trends before they

threaten asset production or integrity

 Reporting on key performance indicators and

their impact on business objectives

Managing knowledge is paramount to achieving
outstanding technical and business results.

InSight delivers a user experience focused on sim­plicity and efficiency. Users receive intuitive and
seamless tools, delivering unparalleled functionality.

InSight will help you get more in return for every dol­lar spent in your water and process applications.

Description and Use

All stakeholders at your plant and company do not
have the same needs in terms of content, format or
frequency of information. InSight enables you to
choose the way you manage information with a
wide range of functionality.

InSight hosts data in a secure GE cloud that allows
the information to reach the people who need it,
when they need it and in a form they need it.

Graphics and reports functionalities enable users to simultaneously
assess performance of key performance indicators that dictate over­all asset health.

InSight, GE’s cloud-based knowledge manage­ment platform, provides the means to capture and
translate data into valuable information. Ultimate­ly providing the knowledge you need to get the
most out of your water or process applications
that support production assets, at the lowest total
cost of operation. InSight provides:

 Analytics: Seeing, at any point in time, the

historical and current performance against
success criteria, and the trajectory of future
performance; where it’s on track, and the
weaknesses that need improvement.

 Early Detection: Detecting emerging prob-

lems, so that action can be taken now, before
a failure is experienced in the future.

 Asset Optimization: Identifying opportunities

to optimize the applications to which we are

entrusted, that lower the total cost of opera­tions, without sacrificing production perfor­mance.

 Safety: Acid leaks, chemical storage tank leaks

or chemical overfeed are common occurrences
that can be detected before a problem becomes
serious.

 Productivity: Helping people get more done

with tools that enhance their personal produc­tivity, enabling them to see and do more.

 Collaboration: Communicating … recognizing

that each customer is comprised of different
groups of people with different roles, responsi­bilities and informational needs, and providing
each of them with the right information in terms

of its content, form and frequency so that it’s

meaningful and actionable. InSight enables cus­tomers to choose the way they manage infor­mation with a wide range of functionality.

Whether the “view” you need is a single application
or asset, a cluster of assets, an entire plant, or all the
plants in your company, InSight will enable you to
“see it.”

Features

Drill down capabilities allow for selection, review and analysis of
individual parameters.

Services Reliability Center: An extensive invest­ment in the infrastructure, people and process
comprise the Service Reliability Center (SRC).

Once a customer has the data from one or more
assets (boilers, cooling towers, etc.) active with
InSight, the professionals of the SRC watch over

those assets … every day. They look for problems,

and notify GE field teams when they see one be­fore it results in a failure. It’s an extension of the
GE field team, complementing local efforts, provid­ing a new level of assurance and reliability.

Simplicity: InSight makes it easy to see how well
your applications are performing over a specified
time horizon.

InSight distills extensive amounts of data from multiple Key Perfor­mance Indicators into a simple aggregate performance indicator tai­lored to the view of the user whether that by an individual system,
collection of systems or an entire plant.

Graphics and Reports: Self-selected configurations
for graphics and reports put information into for­mats that have meaning, relevance, and are tailored
to the needs of a variety of user groups.

Every customer of InSight is automatically connected to and sup­ported by the Service Reliability Center.

Data Sources: System architecture allows for data
to be acquired from a wide range of sources and
modes of capture. Some of these include:

 Manual direct entry through personal com-

puters and mobile devices

 Wireless connectivity with controllers, both

those proprietary to GE as well as commonly
available third party devices.

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