ORAP® New User Orientation

March 4, 2007

Carlos Garcia

Strategic Power Systems, Inc.

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Who is Strategic Power Systems (SPS)?Who is Strategic Power Systems (SPS)?

Information Technology and Reliability Engineering Co.

– Compiling Reliability, Availability and Maintainability (RAM) data

Focus

– Gas and Steam Turbine Plants• Power Generation• Oil and Gas

Industry Methodology

– Common coding structure (EBS & KKS)

– IEEE and ISO standards

– NERC and WEC compliant

– Strong support from EPRI

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SPS & WTUISPS & WTUI

SPS Supports WTUI

GE Aero ORAP Contract

Legend

SPS Installs 1st ORAP LINK™ at CP&L

SPS Introduces ORAP Parts Tracking™SPS Introduces 1st

PC Based Entry Tool SPS IntroducesORAP Interactive™web-based reporting

SPS moves to Charlotte, NC

Introduced Parts Tracking & Configuration Management Module in ORAP

SPS IncorporatedAlbany, NY

SPS Introduces ORAP Cycles Tracking™

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Base ORAPBase ORAP®

Proprietary database

– Operating and maintenance information on total plant equipment

Benchmarking

– Customer and market reports

Participants submit data on a monthly basis

Quarterly reports provided to participants

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Data RequirementsData Requirements Event Data:

- Begin Date/Time/End Date

- Outage Type (Forced, Scheduled, Unscheduled, Derating)

- Component (Equipment that caused the Event)

- Outage Mechanism (Failure or Maintenance Reason)

- Detailed Narrative (Symptom, Corrective Action Performed and Root Cause of Outage)

Operational Data:

- Service Hours

- Reserve Hours

- Attempted and Successful Starts

- MW Hrs Generated or Hp, ETC

Counter Reading Data:

- Total Service Hours

- Factored Hours/Equivalent Hours

- Total MW Hrs Generated

- Total Starts, ETC

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Data OutputData Output

Compares plant component data on a yearly basis

Compares all your unit(s) maintenance factors and % on a per year basis

RAM Benchmarking

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ORAP BenefitsORAP Benefits Preventative Maintenance

– Trends across the Fleet

– Breakdown by components and sub-components (total plant)

– Availability

– Reliability

– Service Factor

– Starting Reliability

– Outage Factors

– Mean Time Values

Benchmarking– Your unit vs. total Fleet in ORAP

– Your unit vs. Best in Class Performers in ORAP

Forecasting… e.g. Hot Section Overhauls

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Revenue OpportunityRevenue Opportunity

Extended Intervals Between Maintenance & Engine Removals

Determine Source of Downtime… Frequency & Duration

Define Parts Life Limits Empirically

ORAP Provides Critical Information That Helps You Better Understand Your Business

ORAP Will Help Your Business Be Profitable

Industry Expectations… Return on Investment Must Result In…

– 5% reduction in inventory…

– 5% reduction in planned maintenance…

– 25% reduction in unreliability…

– 10% reduction in RO costs…

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Who Uses ORAP… Just a SampleWho Uses ORAP… Just a Sample

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Why ORAP?Why ORAP? Largest and Most accurate RAM database

– All OEM Gas and Steam Turbines

– All markets

Benchmarking

– Your unit vs. the Fleet and Best in Class

Close Relationship with OEMs

– ORAP supports design and quality efforts with many OEMs

Customer Focus

– Value-added service supporting participants and OEMs

Open minded

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Questions?Questions?

www.spsinc.com

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Visit our Booths! – 517 & 616 Visit our Booths! – 517 & 616

Register to WIN an Apple iPod Nano and a AMEX gift Card!

Join ORAP here at WTUI

– We will send everything you need to your email

$100 American Express Gift Card

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Detailed ORAP Detailed ORAP

ScreenshotsScreenshots

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Event DataEvent Data

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Input - Events ScreenInput - Events Screen

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Input – Counter DataInput – Counter Data

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Input – Operational DataInput – Operational Data