Rocksavage adopts industry first machine learning technology
Leading machine learning and applied A.I provider – Cognitive Business – has announced it has successfully secured a contract to deliver its sophisticated machine learning technology to the gas-fired Rocksavage power plant.
Cognitive Business, based in Nottingham and with clients including some of the world's largest wind farms, has a long history of developing decision support, performance monitoring, and predictive maintenance solutions for offshore wind operations.
Contracted to install its advanced pattern recognition technology to the North West power plant, the Cognitive technology will enable plant operators to detect minute changes in the behaviour of industrial assets not easily identified by humans.
Providing cutting edge industry benefits never before experienced, the technology is the first of its kind to completely eliminate the variances of human decision-making and detect microscale behaviours in data with up to 100% accuracy.
As a result, the technology offers a distinct pre-cursor to failure with the opportunity to detect months – and even years – in advance, small changes, or enable early maintenance and operational programmes, that will prevent asset failure and significantly reduce future costs.
Speaking about the technology, Ty Burridge - Oakland, Managing Director at Cognitive Business said: “We are delighted by the overwhelming interest in this technology, which shows that there is a genuine need for our one-of-a-kind solution.
“It has the power to model any industrial data, whether from gas distribution, biomass assets, conventional thermal assets or even nuclear, and present this in a form that can be predicted and regularly modelled to understand what an asset is doing and deliver substantial savings to owner operators.”
Nairn Hogarth, Performance Engineer at Rocksavage said: “Cognitive’s unique advanced pattern recognition technology brings to the market a cutting-edge solution that will certainly enable us – and other large industrial asset plants – to run more efficiently and economically. The ability to real time monitor and – as such – the capacity to identify any potential failures or maintenance requirements makes reducing downtime and eliminating costly repair and replacement an absolute reality.”
Cognitive Business is an industry leader in machine learning and applied A.I, developing a wide range of decision support, performance monitoring, and predictive maintenance solutions for offshore wind operations and maintenance applications.
The business prides itself on having some of the most highly skilled in-house engineers in the industry and being the first to market with some of the most technically advanced solutions.
Rocksavage is an 810MW combined cycle, natural gas-fired power plant located in Runcorn and with a generation capacity to meet the needs of more than 800,000 households. The plant has been in operation for 22 years and is owned and operated by InterGen.
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