InStep Software enters Middle East market

InStep's complete solution is charged with monitoring the facility's major gas turbines, associated heat recovery steam generators and desalination equipment.

InStep's PRiSM is a self-learning analytic application for real time online monitoring of critical assets for condition based maintenance; eDNA is an enterprise level real time data historian that archives multiple data points on a second by second basis.

Together PRiSM and eDNA are providing the Al Hidd Power Plant with solutions that complement its state of the art infrastructure and set a benchmark for Middle East energy facilities. A single identified fault has proven to save a power plant over $500,000; one InStep Software customer realized a five-to-one ROI in the first year of utilizing PRiSM.

"InStep's solutions provide Al Hidd with very easy access to critical, real-time data on the health of many important assets in this plant. This will save us both time and money by providing early identification of equipment failures backed up with a detailed history of equipment condition," says Bill King, Director of Production, Al Hidd Power Plant. The Al Hidd Power Plant is owned by a consortium of International Power, Sumitomo and GDFSuez.

"We were particularly impressed with PRiSM's online equipment health monitoring capability and eDNA's ability to maintain a high fidelity long term archive. These were natural selections for one of the most modern independent power and desalination plants in the Middle East," he added.