Description of need
Power plant plant operators need a better sense of when to maintain or inspect various pieces of equipment in order to avoid unnecessary outages (or worse, unplanned downtime).
Problem severity (1-10)
6
Who has this need
Power plant operators, especially ones that don’t already over-maintain. According to Abhishek Ravindra, Japanese power plants over-maintain their facilities but other Asian countries (e.g. Thailand) do not:
Total addressable market (TAM)
Unknown
Solutions today, and their shortcomings
Unknown
Potentially relevant capabilities
- Gather data from the maintenance teams (when was this maintenance? was it planned or unplanned?), data from the actual equipment, take in the design of the power plant (heat balance, etc.) and build models to provide a service.