The company said that with Proficy Workflow, utilities can digitize and orchestrate work processes to achieve coordinated power delivery.
Proficy Workflow, in conjunction with a Service Oriented Architecture such as Proficy SOA, can orchestrate processes across systems and people, triggering automatic and manual actions based on real-time events, which support the three SmartGrid functions of delivery optimization, demand optimization and asset optimization, the company said.
GE claims that to help avoid failures in the grid, Proficy Workflow can provide better response, automatic recovery scenarios and pre-warning systems of distribution problems.
The system guides operators through instructions to ensure actions comply with defined processes – with validated entry. Users can capture both automated and manual data entry, and digitize and enforce compliance with policy manuals and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
Utilities can automatically respond to process problems and events, monitoring alarms and out-of-spec conditions from multiple systems.
With Proficy Workflow, utilities can implement Troubleshooting Trees to walk people through problems to determine root cause and solution. Troubleshooting Trees can help with repair of equipment as well as in-process coordination, the company said.
Proficy Workflow can orchestrate the exchange of real-time data across the existing utility systems software and hardware infrastructure including HMI/SCADA.
