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Control System Audit

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Control System Audit

Industrial automation
Control System Audit
• Control System Audits provide an opportunity to evaluate and assess
the management of the main risks associated with Industrial Control
System.
• 3 Key areas of control system are reviewed and analyzed
1) Maintenance
2) Cyber Security
3) Energy Management
1) Maintenance
• Maintaining plant is key to ensuring smooth, efficient operations.
• Unplanned downtime due to equipment failure or unscheduled
replacement is expensive and can put things like relationships with
clients or customers at risk.

Benefit of Audit:
Avoid unplanned maintenance & improve equipment life
2) Cyber Security
• Every year there is an increase in the number of cyber incidents
affecting industrial facilities.
• These incidents can cause financial loss, exposure of proprietary or
personal information and, interruption of service.
Benefit of Audit:
Gather simple strategies to reduce threats
Access tools, processes and procedures that can help guard against
cyber attacks and prepare for disruption of service or theft of
information.
3) Energy Management
• How you control and reduce your energy usage is important.
• The more energy you consume in your facilities the greater your
operating costs, emissions and, susceptibility to changes in energy
cost and supply.
Benefit of Audit:
Empower operators to reduce energy consumption in the facilities
to save costs, decrease environmental impact and prepare to meet
current or future energy targets.
Benefits of Power plant Audit (to improve
performance and optimization)
• Improving generation unit efficiency and maximizing plant asset
utilization are core activities.
• Today’s challenges for power plants to meet changing load demands,
to maintain high unit availability
• Comply with emission requirements are unparalleled.
With few changes in the existing instrumentation and
control systems, power plant can achieve:
• Reduction of unit trips
• Reduction of NOx emissions
• Reduction of start-up times
• Heat rate improvement
• Unit turndown improvement
• Increased ramp rate
• Reduction of operator errors
• Reduction of nuisance alarms
Audit provide value to plant operation with the
following benefits:
• Cost savings with increased unit efficiency, reduced fuel and O&M costs
• Increased revenues with higher unit availability, capacity and inter-utility
power transaction support
• Environmental regulation compliance with reduction of NOx, SO2 and
mercury emissions
• Equipment protection with proper safety interlocks design and
boiler/turbine stress monitoring to avoid excessive stress and costly repairs
• Operational flexibility
• Consistent and ergonomically design HMI to reduce human operational
errors
Many reliability, maintenance and safety
improvements can be identified including:
• Decreased possibility of puliverizer fire, resulting in savings by
avoiding burner equipment replacement and prevention of
production losses
• Fewer hardware interconnections
• Improved Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF)
• Reduced Mean Time To Repair (MTTR)
• Enhanced alarming capabilities
• Reduced spare parts and training

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