1. CIMug Asset Health Focus Community
Update for European CIMug Meeting
June 4, 2015
Pat Brown
EPRI
Gowri Rajappan
Doble
Good morning, everyone.
I’m Pat Brown and I’m here to talk about the CIMug Asset Health Focus Community
This has been quite a week hasn’t it?
Kinda like sipping from a fire hydrant, isn’t it?
It’s been striking to me how often asset information featured in presentations we’ve heard this week:
On Wednesday
Siri discussed transmission and distribution transformer monitoring and health indexing
Matija spoke of including asset management data in the WEB.CIM integration platform
Gowri talked about a CIM-enabled Asset Registry
Alexandre addressed asset information in the analytics work that Hydro Quebec is doing
Yesterday
Shawn mentioned that assets are included in the UDM
And just this morning
And Fook-Luen just shared with us DTE’s asset risk management strategy
Feels to me like a real recognition of how the CIM can help in the domain of assets.

2. CIMug Focus Communities
Address:
A high-priority need
Where wide input is needed:
Utilities
Vendors
Universities
IEC WG experts
Supported by IEC WG Technical Team
Facilitate quicker, real-world-based updates of CIM standards
Asset Health is first, more are coming..
Let’s start by talking about the notion of focus communities…

3. Asset Management at Utilities
The Business Challenge
Aging fleet past design life
Limited resources
Increased regulatory / media pressure
Heuristic decision-making
Time-based maintenance is default
Replace?
Repair?
Monitor?
So back to the area of asset health.
Asset information is used for lots of purposes in a utility – capital accounting, rate-case preparation, work management, but one of the biggest untapped areas is using utility asset-related information of asset management itself.
Utilities are facing almost unbelievable challenges in managing their asset fleets x
Heuristic (seat-of-the-pants) decision making… something that is becoming less possible with the departure of seasoned utility engineers as the utility work force ages.
So there is a clear business need…
The Business Need
Accurate insight into asset health for accurate decision-making

4. Asset Management at Utilities.
The IT Challenge
Data location
field measurements .
Data format .
maintenance
test
Data stewardship
nameplate
inspection
Compounded by New Technological Opportunites
Modern sensing technologies
New communication solutions
In the typical utility, there is actually a wealth of existing information available that could shed light on the health of assets. The problem is getting to it in any kind of efficient fashion..
Compounded by the new available information
The IT Need
A way to organize disparate information from a variety of sources ?

5. Existing Asset Health Data Environment
Engineer .
Asset
Manager .
Field
Maintenance .
Results to Applications
Work
Management
System
Visualization of Results
Analytics
Data Sources
Test
Records
Database
RTUs
Asset
Management
System
Maintenance
Management
System
EMS
SCADA
Asset Field Data
Operations Field Data
IEDs
Let’s look at a graphic representation of that IT need.. .
Surely a fertile field for a CIM-based solution
Sensors
Monitors
Planner .
Asset
Manager .
Field
Maintenance .
Engineer .
Operator .

6. Asset Health Focus Community Work
Envision a CIM model-based architecture forming the basis of an asset health framework
Carefully review CIM support for asset health data and suggest refinements and enhancements to the asset-related portions of the CIM model
Produce Edition 2
Include asset health use cases/modeling
Revise to current format
Resources
Real-world utility and vendor input
Technical support from WG13 and WG14
All that great structural support from the CIM is wonderful.. A really good starting point
But how to go about actually applying it to help with asset health information integration?...
So the AHFC started by envisioning…
And carefully reviewing
Getting real-world utility and vendor input all along the way…
Augemented by
As a matter of fact our habit has been to have alternative Tuesday phone calls by the two groups…
One Tuesday, one would…

7. Asset Health Focus Community Vision of Asset Health Integration Framework
Planner .
Engineer .
Operator .
Asset
Manager .
Field
Maintenance .
Results to Applications
EMS
Contingency
Analysis
Work
Management
System
Visualization of Results
Data Integration (analytics results)
Analytics
Data Integration (source data)
Data Sources
So this is what the vision looks like
A utility has……
And, of course the CIM would be the semantic model basis of choice to provide the organizing strategy for the Data Integration layers.
The AHFC has started by focusing on this lower integration layer and CLICK the enhancements to the CIM that will be needed to support it.
RTUs
Asset
Management
System
Maintenance
Management
System
Test
Records
Database
EMS
SCADA
Asset Field Data
Operations Field Data
IEDs
Sensors
Data
Monitors

8. Asset Health Focus Community Review/Suggest Refinements to CIM Model
Existing CIM support for asset health information:
The skeleton is there
Asset and its components - Asset and AssetContainer classes, and their children
Nameplate – AssetInfo child classes
Model/Manufacturer – ProductAssetModel and Manufacturer classes
Test/Inspection/Maintanance Results – Procedure and ProcedureDataSet child classes
Network model role – PowerSystemResource child classes
Measurements – Measurement and MeasurementValue child classes
… and concluded that:
But….
It needs fleshing out
It needs refinement

9. CIM Support for Asset Health Information
Asset and its components
Let’s take a look at existing CIM support…
Asset and AssetContainer with a lovely recursive design.. It means…

10. CIM Support for Asset Health Information
Nameplate
Asset and its components

11. CIM Support for Asset Health Information
Nameplate
Model / Manfacturer
Asset and its components

12. CIM Support for Asset Health Information
Nameplate
Model / Manfacturer
Asset and its components
Test/Inspection/
Maintenance Results

13. CIM Support for Asset Health Information
Nameplate
Model / Manfacturer
Asset and its components
Network model role
Test/Inspection/
Maintenance Results

14. CIM Support for Asset Health Information
Nameplate
Model / Manfacturer
Asset and its components
Network model role
Test/Inspection/
Maintenance Results
Measurements

15. Asset Health Focus Community Review/Suggest Refinements to CIM Model
Many areas of suggested refinement
Creation of asset templates
Current Asset/AssetContainer model has
Huge flexibility
Little support for interoperability
Clarification of Asset and AssetInfo class usage
New model for test procedure results
Based on “independent values”
Looking at Measurement, ReadingType, for configuration definition
Improved support of asset lifecycle
Etc…
And we currently have a number of areas where extensions or improvements might be needed. They include
…really useful to describe a structure, a skeleton off which important asset information can be ‘hung’
…since the way in which one application might choose to arrange asset components for a given type of asset would have little probability of matching the way in which another application would do it

16. Asset Health Focus Community Review/Suggest Refinements to CIM Model
Asset templates
Provide model-based way of organizing other asset health information (nameplate/model/manufacturer and procedure results)
Enable application interoperability
Will probably become IEC “Technical Specifications” not “International Standards”
Templates defined:
Transmission breakers:
SF6 dead tank
Bulk oil (dead tank)
Minimum oil (live tank)
SF6 live tank
Air blast (live tank)
Working on transformers
We are looking to templates to

17. Asset Health Focus Community Review/Suggest Refinements to CIM Model
So let’s a quick look at what one of the templates we working on defining might look like.
Let’s take an SF6 Dead Tank breaker… one of the most common transmission breakers in service today…
What instances of what classes should be used to model this type of asset?
In the case of an SF6 Dead Tank Breaker, maybe we have:…
Template Example –
SF6 Dead Tank Breaker
Instances used to describe an asset of a specific type

18. Asset Health Focus Community Review/Suggest Refinements to CIM Model
Modeling of “independent values”
Procedure result values (measurements)
Grouping by source
By test activity type and time
By field device source
Definition of type of ‘independent value’. Considering:
Measurement
ReadingType
61850
We are looking to templates to

19. Asset Health Focus Community 61968-4 Edition 2
Possible inputs
Review / revise existing resources
Use cases – and SGIP
Messages –
Add in Asset Health Focus Community work
New/revised IRM actor
Model updates
Use cases
EPRI GIS use cases
We are looking to templates to

20. Asset Health Focus Community 61968-4 Edition 2
Sequence of actions
Refine IRM
Review relate Business Function and Business Sub-Functions
Propose modifications/additios as appropriate
Develop use case from multiple sources as input
Use existing use cases form multiple sources as input
Identify data exchanges
Suggest extensions/refinements ot canonical CIM
Develop profiles
We are looking to templates to

21. Asset Health Focus Community Current Activities
Oil Analysis Modeling
Working with lab experts to
Identify ‘independent values’from multiple sources
Identify ASTM/IEC/IEEE standards that govern testing
We are looking to templates to
Transformer templates

22. Asset Health Focus Community and You
Information on CIMug SharePoint site
UCAI UserID needed

23. Asset Health Focus Community and You
Bi-weekly Focus Community calls
Tuesdays at 10 am Eastern
Next call 9 June, 2015
Contact
Gowri Rajappan,
Pat Brown,

24. Questions?