Sheldon Willis, Allen Caswell, and Darius Walczak presented Ovation Intelligence Framework Applications at the 2025 Ovation Users’ Group Conference. They opened the presentation by showing a picture of the scope of the Ovation Intelligence Framework.
It is a common framework for streamlined interoperability, leveraging new and powerful features such as the Expert System, to target customer requirements. The framework integrates advanced control, advisory support, efficiency, soot blowing, reliability, and economic optimization data to facilitate real-time decision-making. It allows the deployment of predictive maintenance, decision support, and fault tolerance strategies.
You can think of this framework as being like a smartphone with apps that you can plug in based on your requirements. Components in the Ovation Intelligence Framework include data sources & connectors, plugins & applications, and a programmable expert system. It comprises a comprehensive suite of products for advanced power plant analytics. The predictive maintenance components incorporate AI capabilities for root cause analysis of anomalies.
Data sources come from real-time, historians, and plugins to third-party applications’ data sources.
Analytic Studio brings in data, scales it, and filters it to prepare it for the intelligence framework. It enables local analytics from the real-time data and makes it available visually for operators and in control strategies.
Some applications the Ovation Intelligence Framework can address include:
- Generator sequence of events (SOE) monitoring
- Critical process measurement verification
- Rotor stress evaluation
- Machine learning and advanced pattern recognition (APR)
- Model-based smart monitoring
- Connection with AspenTech Mtell AI-powered asset performance management
- HydroPlant generator vibration monitoring
- Soot blowing optimization
- Solar & battery generation setpoint scheduling
- Unit dispatching
For the Intelligent Sootblowing application, it constantly checks running blowers and sequences (manual/sequence/ISB start), stores blowing events with the sootblowing operational log, calculates and stores sootblower run time, identifies improper sootblower operation (insufficient or excessive blower runtime), and stores sootblowing errors (blowers not starting, blowers with excessive runtime, etc. with the sootblowing error log.
The Unit Dispatching application:
- Provides an interactive GUI, scrollable in both directions.
- Handles large data tables with sticky headers
- Allows local computation outside of DCS
- Stores process data in local files
- Requires no network connection
- Has an easily expandable architecture
Check out the Ovation Intelligence Framework data sheet for more information on its capabilities to help drive more proactive, efficient, and reliable operations.
