News

TXU Selects ATI's Aware BTF Module and Migrates Away From Existing Legacy System

SAN JOSE, CA - 4/1/2004 - Automation Technology, Inc. (ATI), a supplier of Collaborative Asset Management solutions for the energy industries, is pleased to announce that TXU has acquired ATI's AWARE product for managing boiler tube failure statics on their boiler fleet. This move was driven by a need to improve documentation and management of knowledge pertaining to the condition of boilers, and easily utilize that knowledge to plan for future outages.

TXU used a competitors solution before switching over to ATI's AWARE product.  Due to the lack of support and obsolescense of the competitors product offering, TXU elected to upgrade to ATI's AWARE product.

TXU has installed the web-based AWARE product in a central office with access provided to multiple plant sites in the state of Texas. Boiler inspections that are performed during outages are documented in AWARE, and the information is immediately accessible from personnel at the central office as well as throughout the plant.

Forced outages that occur due to tube failures are also documented in AWARE. This enables TXU the ability to centralize knowledge pertaining to tube failures across multiple plants, enabling engineers to analyze failure trends. By doing this, regulatory reporting is streamlined and standardized from one central location as well.

About TXU

In TXU's unregulated business, TXU Energy provides electricity and related services to more than 2.6 million competitive electricity customers in Texas, more customers than any other retail electric provider in the state. TXU Power owns and operates 18,500 megawatts of generation in Texas, including 2,300 MW of nuclear-fired and 5,837 MW of lignite/coal-fired generation capacity.

TXU's regulated electric distribution and transmission business complements the competitive operations, using asset management skills developed over more than one hundred years, to provide reliable electricity delivery to consumers. TXU's electric delivery operations are the largest in Texas, providing power to 2.9 million delivery points over more than 98,000 miles of distribution and 14,000 miles of transmission lines.

About Automation Technology Inc.

ATI is a leading provider of Collaborative Asset management solutions for high value equipment manufacturers. ATI's products are intended to help high value original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) enhance the quality of aftermarket services and increase aftermarket part sales while helping to ensure their customer's achieve reliable equipment uptime. ATI's products are designed to enable the OEM to effectively manage the field service knowledge of their installed equipment base and determine fleet characteristics for proactive customer service.

About Automation Technology Inc.
ATI is a leading provider of Collaborative Asset Management solutions for high value equipment. ATI's products help capture failure, inspection and repair knowledge and retain it for these assets throughout its life cycle. ATI’s product have been applied to various types of assets including, boilers, HRSGs, high energy piping lines, steam turbines, pulverizer mills, high voltage underground cables, and transformer equipment.

Contact Us for more information.