Responsibilities

Review this planning guide and share it with key plant personnel involved in the project.

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Determine the enclosure mounting position and conduit routes customized to the generator and ensure that they are within system guidelines.

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Select an Electrical Contractor and coordinate.

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Determine the enclosure mounting position and conduit routes customized to the generator and ensure it is within system requirements.

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Mount the Monitoring System enclosure with supporting strut channel rails and install required conduit, complete with pull strings.

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LOTO the following components: Main excitation system, ground detection system, and turning gear. LOTO needs to be in place prior to arrival of Cutsforth technicians.

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Provide 120V GFI protected power.

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Provide adequate working access to the installation site including scaffolding. Scaffolding must be erected prior to arrival of Cutsforth technicians.

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Ensure that the shaft is off turn gear and stationary.

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Ensure that the shaft is fully coupled for installation.

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Ensure that the bearing caps immediately adjacent to the shaft grounding area are in place.

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Provide shaft growth value at the grounding location to a Cutsforth technician.

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Indicate shaft rotation direction to a Cutsforth technician.

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Install the Cutsforth shaft assembly.

Run wiring in plant-completed conduit raceways.

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Identify the main grounding termination point on the unit case.

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Make system wiring terminations.

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Make grounding termination to the unit case.

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Perform system testing and commissioning.

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Control room/IT support for testing data outputs of the monitoring system.

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Review InsightCM Server Requirements.

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Procure a server for InsightCM^TM (if not done already).

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Verify that server meets requirements before installing software.

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Verify server prerequisites are checked (IIS Role).

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Install InsightCM^TM on the server.

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Install Microsoft Silverlight on the server.

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Install the Google Chrome browser on the server.

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If using a Windows 10 server, inquire with Cutsforth about the NI RAD Utility. Otherwise, skip this step.

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Power on the Cutsforth monitoring equipment.

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Configure IP addresses for the Cutsforth monitoring equipment from the server.

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Connect the Cutsforth device to the server using an Ethernet or fiber cable.

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Create the device’s asset tree in InsightCM^TM and validate.

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Create the device in InsightCM^TM using the configured IP addresses.

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Configure desired alarm settings, if desired alarms are known.

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Using InsightCM^TM, establish a connection to the field device.

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Confirm data is being collected, can be viewed in InsightCM^TM, and is accurate. This task would likely be performed by Cutsforth’s Software and Electronics team after the service portion of the installation has been completed.

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