The purpose of SAM is to provide National Grid with safer, more efficient systems that will allow improved planning of maintenance and greater real time knowledge of asset conditions.
The aim of the projects is to address the complexities and viability of a substation wide Condition Monitoring (CM) solution on key primary and secondary plant. This will utilise a diversity of technologies and software tools currently available, and develop some under this project that enable Smart Asset Management (SAM) via a unified platform. The output will be a review of the capabilities and limitations of the technology to provide guidance for justification, policy and strategy (AS3) and SAM.
It will also provide a sand pit test bed to enable National Grid to evaluate other new R&D, technologies or processes in a pilot form before implementation within the company, there is currently no equivalent A type registration process for CM.