Engineering Automation

PRC-027 is a NERC protection reliability standard that is intended to maintain the coordination of protection systems installed to detect and isolate faults on the Bulk Electric System (BES). Quanta Technology offers solutions for all aspects of this standard, from assessment and establishment of processes to perform comprehensive large-scale coordination studies across any scope. Our experts lead the industry in innovative approaches and tools to efficiently and feasibly meet the challenging compliance requirements of the PRC-027 standard.

Increase system reliability and prevent misoperations by confirming correct relay operation via automated relay testing. ARTMS software includes a powerful software engine that automates key tasks in the relay testing process. The software is available for purchase. Quanta Technology can also provide integration services for deployment of the ARTMS software.

CIP-010 is part of the NERC Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) category of protection standards. This standard is intended to prevent and detect unauthorized changes to BES Cyber Systems through Configuration Change Management and Vulnerability Assessments. The standard is broad, covering areas of responsibilities that typically fall under multiple departments within an organization. Quanta Technology offers solutions for all of your CIP-010 needs. To maintain the reliability and resiliency of the grid, power system engineers routinely perform complex system performance analyses which may include detailed simulations. Comprehensive power studies on a wide range of system conditions produce extensive amounts of raw data that quickly becomes overwhelming to comprehend. CORE® tools leverage the benefits of software automation to address the challenges in executing these studies as well as processing and interpreting the results.

CORE® (Compliance, Operations, Reliability, Engineering) is a suite of software tools developed by Quanta Technology to address the growing complexity of the modern power system. The CORE® platform offers a comprehensive set of modules for automation and data management solutions, ranging from data transformation applications, system analysis tools, and reporting and presentation processors. To maintain the reliability and resiliency of the grid, power system engineers routinely perform complex system performance analyses which may include detailed simulations. Comprehensive power studies on a wide range of system conditions produce extensive amounts of raw data that quickly becomes overwhelming to comprehend. CORE® tools leverage the benefits of software automation to address the challenges in executing these studies as well as processing and interpreting the results.

The employment of new technologies, operating paradigms, and increasing regulatory requirements have placed new challenges upon Protection and Control engineers. Proper implementation of protection systems is a critical aspect in in ensuring the safe and reliable operation of the modern electric grid. Quanta Technology offers a unique combination of expert knowledge and innovative software-based tools that enable engineers to perform extensive protection performance evaluations that can confirm intended operation of protection systems under a range of different system conditions. Our approach can help protection engineers catch issues before they happen and fulfill a critical role in the proper implementation of critical protection systems.

Quanta Technology offers unmatched expertise in the representation and model development of protective devices in a wide range of industry-standard software packages. Our extensive industry experience enables our experts to provide best-practice advice and support in all aspects of protection modeling, including conception, implementation, maintenance, and actual simulation studies. We have created these capabilities in consideration of the greater demands being placed on Protection Engineering departments to meet the technological and regulatory challenges of the future, in an ever-changing power systems industry. The availability and increasing capabilities of software simulations represent significant opportunities to assist engineers in the development and performance evaluation of critical protection devices.

The widespread deployment of digital technologies is transforming the power industry. The availability of system status and measurement data represents an opportunity to improve operational paradigms and engineering practices. However, the management and utilization of this data, especially in the volumes associated with advanced analytics and system operation functions, have proven to be critical considerations in effectively realizing these potential benefits. Our team at Quanta Technology offer comprehensive solutions to overcoming the DRIP Dilemma (Data Rich, Information Poor) in managing and utilizing this data. We combine our capabilities in process and software development, experience in data best-practices, and the unmatched expertise of our power industry practices to ensure the data can facilitate customer goals.

Utilities are frequently facing a multitude of processes, tools, and data assets in support of Planning, Operations, and Asset organizational units. To meet modern challenges, utilities increasingly have sought to integrate these historically separate processes, tools, and data assets in order to realize improvements in efficiency, communication, and data integrity across their entire organization. Quanta Technology offers a best-in-class approach to process integration by combining our foundation of industry domain expertise with purpose-built tools that enable alignment of processes and data across separate organizational units.