Developing next-generation solutions are adding value to the digitalisation of transformers

TXpert is Hitachi Energy’s open, scalable, manufacturer-agnostic ecosystem for the digitalisation of transformers.

Hitachi Energy’s TXpert™ is a next-generation solution to digitise transformers. This leading-edge technology collects all relevant data across devices to reduce costs, optimise operation, extend life expectancy, and enhance performance.

The TXpert Hub enables monitoring by aggregating, storing, and analysing information from the transformer’s digital sensors.

It is built on the solid foundation of Hitachi Energy’s journey of pioneering innovation in this field for over 30 years. It is designed to simplify digitalisation for any transformer, with enhanced connectivity and cybersecurity.

“Electricity will be the backbone of the entire energy system driven by the energy transition, making the power grid a complex system of systems. Digitalisation is the only way to manage that complexity to deliver visibility and agility to enable fast data-driven decision-making,” said Bruno Melles, Managing Director of the Transformers Business at Hitachi Energy. “Digitalisation is becoming crucial to transformers due to their pivotal role in enabling efficient, reliable, and safe electricity networks, managing power quality and flow control to fit the needs of today and tomorrow.”

Next-generation TXpert Hub: Digitalisation for every transformer
The next-generation TXpert Hub, powered by the latest CoreTec technology, has been built from the ground up to ease transformer digitalisation, focusing on incorporating the operational experience of users of earlier system versions. The application of the latest technologies in communications and cybersecurity.

Readiness for off-the-shelf retrofits
TXpert upgrades and enhances transformers to connect and integrate all relevant data across many devices to deliver tangible impact and to make digital real. It makes the digitalisation of transformers easier, more effective, and more secure. Whatever the type of transformer – old, new, dry, or liquid-filled, transmission or distribution – the TXpert ecosystem would apply to it. With its solid grounding built on the knowledge and intelligence of manufacturing and servicing thousands of transformers, the TXpert ecosystem delivers actionable, data-driven insights with a real impact on reducing costs, optimising operations, and extending life expectancy, further enhancing its environmental performance.

Features of TXpert Ecosystem for transformer digitalisation
Spanning all types of new or existing transformers – distribution, dry, and power transformers – the TXpert Ecosystem includes:

• TXpert-Ready digital sensors: Such as temperature, DGA, bushings, etc., from an extensive list of proven TXpert-Ready thirdparty sensors.

• TXpert Hub monitoring system: Powered by CoreTec. The TXpert Hub visualises asset-level data, acting as a watchdog and interface for all the sensed data.

• Asset Performance Management software: On Cloud, Edge or Premise Software that uses the data for actionable insights.

• TXpert advanced services: To gain expert insights and help it act instantaneously.

• TXpert delivers actionable intelligence that increases capital and operational value by optimising operations, extending life expectancy, and enhancing environmental performance, reducing risk and cost through predictive maintenance and smart asset management.

The actionable intelligence delivered by TXpert supports achieving a quantifiable return on investment through the following:
Optimise: Reduce cost, and maximise life, productivity, and uptime. Enabling tools for change management, more efficient operations, or selective overloads.
Predict: Enable continued operations, reliability, safety, monitoring, and quantify risks.
Plan: Asset utilisation.

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