Join us for an insightful webinar as industry experts delve into the realm of advanced automation and discuss real world challenges and opportunities associated with delivering bottom line value from current and future technologies. Our esteemed panelists will provide a quick introduction, briefly provide some perspectives on automation technologies shaping and impacting their areas of responsibility, setting the stage for an in-depth exploration of current and future ways the evolvoing technology landscape can deliver value and sustainability to power generation assets.

Power generation asset owners and operators have, and are continuing to invest and engage with emerging technologies in an effort to maintain performance and reliability objectives in an ever more challenging operating environment. As an industry, the loss of experience from the retiring workforce is hitting home in practical ways across all plant level functional areas leading to both short term challenges but also opportunities for technology to help fill the gap and support the remaining workforce if properly deployed.

The key goal of this webinar will be to bring together a diverse panel of power industry experts spanning different types of owner/operators and functional roles within the industry to discuss what types of solutions have been delivering value to their organizations and further discuss opportunities where they see new technologies enabling and supporting their needs going forward.

With “edge” level software solutions deployed close to the control layer the capability to deliver “virtual assistant” type functionality at the realtime plant level exists today but will only get more sophisticated and capable as our industry figures out how generative AI fits into the equation. Will the coming AI load demand wave force us as an industry to more quickly adopt these solutions to ride this wave instead of getting bowled over by it? Can we get to a point where our technologies can re-fill the vacant position of the local plant performance engineer which has vanished from most plants? Is there a place at the plant level for a virtual “control engineer” that can actively monitor plant control performance and pro-actively engage the right personnel when further attention is needed? What about a similar function for maintenance personnel?

These and other related topics will be discussed by the panel, leaving the user with some perspectives on both current and evolving technologies and their capabilities but also some perspectives on how they may align with the day to day goals and challenges power plant operators today.