More on Hoover Dam Explosion: It's Happening
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Looks like an air-handling unit caught fire. This is the result of poor maintenance. If a bearing gets too hot, it can ignite the oil used to lubricate it. I've seen this happen many times, especially on big wind turbines.
Sure it does. My fam works in engineering on power plants, and this is not only something that utilities spend money daily to prevent with software that predicts when you should do maintenance, if you don't do said maintenance it can result in fines or investigations.
Your “software to predict maintenance” is a reminder that you set up on a daily, weekly, monthly, bi-annual and annual schedule. You may have a family member who is in the know, but I’m an Industrial maintenance engineer tech. I work on stuff like this daily.
Any facility caught past their service Interevals is out of compliance with their ISO guidelines and can result in fines and investigation, not so much the latter.
Here you have a fire outside of the building in a staging zone. If you zoom in, the fire is actually very small, it was something that ignited and flash pointed very quickly, likely because of an o2 accelerant.
Oh my lord I have to respond to that... I personally wrote softare for a company that was later aquired by Honeywell. We installed vibration sensors, and tempurature sensors, we wrote drivers to send the data from the sensors to PCS's, the data then went to IP21 and PI realtime historian databases. The data then went to an analytics engine which would alert operators if anything went out of normal operating specs.... we would then send emails / text messages / etc to everyone to recommend emergency maintenance BEFORE things blew up... This was exactly 22 years.... now they use machine learning to get even more precise detections. If something fails in a plant today, a human CHOSE to ignore alerts OR sabatoged things.
That’s completely different than what was stated. Anyone can look at a fucking HMI and see an alarm code Jack.
You took a really long winded way of saying you worked on PLC and softnet controllers.
Honeywell? You do realize HW focuses on gas and burner controllers right?? You see very many gas lines running around the dam boss?