Asset Performance Management is the Predix platform flagship application. Our first customer, Power Generation Services produces 12% of the world's electricity. By meeting their needs we can produce a system capable of supporting all GE businesses as well as outside organizations.
SummaryEach GE business unit created their own bespoke tools to track the performance of their assets.
A new Industrial IIoT application was created to securely connect high-value industrial assets to the internet which could be shared across business. When GE Digital formed a “dream team” of designers to build out this flagship Predix Platform Application I was selected from dozens of designers to discover the pain points of our largest customers and design a scaleable solution. Research and InsightsGE Power customers rely on vibration and combustion engineers to monitor their critical assets to avoid costly downtime.
When researching the Power Generation monitoring center I noticed that as a result of various acquisitions and siloed development efforts engineers used 15 different data visualization tools to understand the output of various machine learning and physics-based monitoring systems. I went about documenting these systems, and generated a prioritized list of features and workflows designed to provide access to the data though a single tool. The resulting industry-leading end to end solution enables new diagnostic engineers to quickly learn how to diagnose the most critical equipment first, skip the false positives, and forward the more complex issues to the appropriate subject matter expert. By increasing reliability each power plant is saving $3M/year by reducing downtime and are 2-3% more fuel efficient. |
Power Generation Services
Monitoring and Diagnostics Center
The physics-based algorithms used by the team generates excellent results:
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Research synthesis for one of our personas.
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Mid-fidelity sketch leveraging the design system, but innovating when possible.
Maintaining over a dozen different data visualization tools is costly and requires substantial training.
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Asset Performance Management brief demo:
Outcomes
APM is currently managing $1 trillion worth of assets and producing results up to:
This effort has scaled to meet the needs of the industrial internet within and outside of GE Digital.
- 10% inventory cost reduction
- 6% increased availability
- 40% reduction in reactive maintenance (fixing things after they break)
- 40% reduction in environment, health, and safety incidents
- 25% gain in employment productivity
- 25% reduction in IT total cost of ownership
This effort has scaled to meet the needs of the industrial internet within and outside of GE Digital.
My Role
As the most senior sole contributor on the team I also took on the responsibility of thought leadership:
- Collaborating with the designers of the Predix Design System as they evolved it to meet our needs
- Established a method of using Sketch/Craft/InVision as a tool for narrating feature epics and gathering feedback from product management and engineering
- Describing the scope and scale of APM and how it is implemented as new members joined the team
- Training interns and mentoring leadership program team members
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