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The article reports on the sales of gas turbines in 2023. While total MW orders slightly decreased, unit orders and aeroderivative sales increased. This decline in MW orders was expected due to the cyclical nature of the market. The article also highlights the competition in the gas turbine market, with Solar Turbines' Titan 250 and 350 models competing against GE Vernova's LM2500+. The author predicts an improvement in the gas turbine market in 2024, but warns of potential disruptions caused by geopolitical events and shipping constraints. The article concludes by emphasizing the continued importance of gas turbines in meeting power demands, particularly in AI-based data centers and areas where wind and solar farms are not feasible. [Extracted from the article]

Digital twins, computer-generated models that map physical objects onto virtual spaces, are being increasingly used to improve maintenance and plant efficiency in the turbine and compressor industry. Large OEMs and various software, IT, and industrial vendors have implemented or trialed digital twin initiatives. Digital twins can be used for simulation, testing, monitoring, and maintenance, accurately reflecting the ongoing operations of equipment or facilities. Real-world examples include a power plant in Michigan where a digital twin allows one person to manage maintenance and operations, and a project in Bahrain where a digital twin helped demonstrate the reliability of turbines. Other companies involved in digital twin technology include Siemens, Ansys, Emerson, and Mitsubishi Power. However, digital twins have limited applicability in the compressor market due to the unique nature of each machine. [Extracted from the article]

Auser complains about it taking too long to load apps. Another says they like to read the newspaper while they wait for the next web page to appear. Someone else [...]

Smart companies are thinking strategically about succession planning as they face a wave of Baby Boomer retirements and a tight talent market where job seekers are in the driver's seat. [...]

This article explores the challenges of maintaining stability in a renewable-focused power grid as traditional power plants are retired and wind and solar resources are added. It discusses issues such as the loss of inertia and reactive power, voltage fluctuations, and the need to balance supply and demand. The article provides examples from Chile and Australia where grid stability problems have arisen due to the increasing penetration of renewables. It also discusses various technologies, such as capacitor banks, static VAR compensators (SVCs), and synchronous condensers, that can help manage reactive power and maintain grid stability. The use of repurposed steam and gas turbines as synchronous condensers, as well as the installation of synchronous condensers in Scotland and Estonia, are highlighted as solutions to stabilize the grid and manage renewable energy integration. [Extracted from the article]

The Baker Hughes Annual Meeting, held in Florence, Italy, focused on the role of natural gas in achieving net-zero goals. The conference highlighted the surge in turbomachinery orders and advancements in decarbonization, carbon capture, and hydrogen-related technologies. The CEO of Baker Hughes emphasized the need to scale current technologies to reduce emissions and advocated for the displacement of coal with natural gas. The event also discussed the impact of President Biden's pause on new LNG permits in the United States, with some speakers expressing disappointment and concern. Carbon capture and energy diversity were also discussed as important strategies for reducing emissions and ensuring energy security. [Extracted from the article]

The rise of the visual Web is reinforcing the notion that every picture tells a story, prompting organizations of all sizes to transform many traditional HR functions through the use [...]

Employers eager to make a good first impression are deploying onboarding portals designed to put new employees on the path to success. These Web-based tools can simplify the assimilation process [...]

In the 1920s, when Babe Ruth was a company spokesman, Barbasol shaving cream was filled and packaged by hand at an Indianapolis factory. In the 1930s, Barbasol had hundreds of [...]

Experience is the teacher of all things,' Julius Caesar wrote in Commentaries on the Civil War. When it comes to providing employees with on-the-job experience, more employers are creating games [...]

When it comes to adding tens or thousands of employees each year, it can be easy for people to get lost in the paperwork. Web-based tools can simplify the onboarding [...]

Even if a company has the best benefits package in the world, it won't get a return on that investment if the employees don't know what's offered and how the [...]

We live in a self-help world. In the context of human resource management systems, self-service gives employees--including managers--greater access to information while freeing up HR to work on higher-level tasks. [...]

Sixty percent efficiency! Like breaking the sound barrier, running the four-minute mile or the search for the Holy Grail, many of the big gas turbine original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are [...]

Combined cycle plants give greater output for the same amount of energy and emissions. But this comes at a cost--increased complexity of design and operations. Optimizing a combined cycle plant [...]

Like most people, Donna Van Gundy, PHR, would spend time during the holidays opening boxes in her living room and going through the contents. But she wasn't expecting any surprise [...]

'Storage intelligence' is a simple term, but it covers a growing area of vendor conflict these days. Most would agree that it basically describes the range of hardware, software and [...]

Managing a network requires a variety of tools, each providing different insight into what is flowing over that network. Unfortunately, there is no one product that provides all the necessary […]

Casual search technologies are fine for retrieving basic information from the Web, or for locating that file you need on your hard drive; and business intelligence (BI) tools are just [...]

Water, water everywhere, and not a drop--in the datacenter! That was true for a while, after mainframes were phased out by distributed minicomputers and standalone servers. But today, water and [...]

As unemployment numbers drop to levels not seen since the dot-com era, signing bonuses are again on the rise for people with IT and other skills in short supply. 'We [...]

As anyone with a wireless keyboard, mouse or laptop can tell you, there is a lot to be said for reducing the number of wires. While not everything can be [...]

When people are under pressure, it's a good idea for them to take a break and let off a little steam; it's unhealthy to keep things bottled up inside. With [...]

Any number of experts will give you their opinions on the hot trends in datacenters these days. For example, analyst Andreas M. Antonopoulis, senior VP of Nemertes Research, lists consolidation, [...]

Even in the best of times, balancing business needs and budgets can feel like working against hurricane-force winds. But then a real hurricane strikes. 'We were right in the Katrina [...]

On most enterprise desktops and laptops, users run separate anti-virus (AV), anti-spyware and other security tools from several different vendors. That preference for individual, best-of-breed security products appears to be [...]

Organizations that rely on a specialized workforce must recruit and retain individuals with licenses and certifications. Keeping and training these high-skilled, professionally certified employees can give these organizations a competitive [...]

Most HR professionals do a good job directing the career development of employees throughout their organization. But they sometimes become so involved in the business of helping others that they [...]

Storage networking may be the healthiest sector of IT. While most of the industry has shrunk from its pre-2000 peak, the biannual Storage Networking World event has never skipped a [...]

Employee self-service has well-proven benefits to business--in particular, better service to employees while cutting down on HR's workload. And the best way to deliver HR services is through an employee [...]

It was easier to manage succession planning when there was a rising workforce population to choose from. But that is no longer the case. Meeting the new challenges of succession [...]

It is easy to secure the perimeter when the borders are well defined and all the troops wear uniforms. But the world doesn't see many of those wars any more. [...]

It takes money to pay employees--even more than you may realize. In fact, the process of getting checks into employees' hands is relatively expensive when you total all the relevant [...]

President George W. Bush traveled the country earlier this year, trying to sell the public on his plan to give employees more control over their retirement money. While economists and [...]

For decades, datacenter power and cooling requirements were based simply on square footage. Whether that was ever truly workable, it certainly doesn't apply today. On the one hand, we have [...]

There's been good news and bad news recently in the legal fight against spam, or unsolicited commercial email (UCE). On the upside, U.S. District Court Judge Charles R. Rolle entered [...]

At a recent briefing in San Francisco, William Hancock, chairman of the National Reliability and Interoperability Council's Focus Group on Cybersecurity, issued a grim warning about the vulnerability of the [...]

Conducting employee surveys can be a good way to create a more engaged and productive workforce, but only if the employees receive feedback on their answers and see their comments [...]

When you have a large family to feed, it is cheaper to eat at home. But when you are single, eating out may be more cost-effective, considering the time spent [...]

To be competitive, a company needs to get the most out of its assets, especially the human ones. One way to achieve this is by offering financial incentives to retain [...]

Layne Buckley, PHR, and Eric Muller both need to hire engineers, and those engineers need to understand electricity. But the recruiters are looking for two very different types of candidates. [...]

With the 'jobless recovery' in the U.S. economy, employment numbers didn't start to improve much until recently. Meanwhile, companies focused on increasing the productivity of existing staff. 'In the food [...]

To cut costs and reduce the time to fill empty positions, an ever-increasing number of companies are setting up career portals on their corporate web sites. 'Over the last 10 [...]

Companies have procurement software to manage their suppliers. They have human resource management systems (HRMS) for their employees. But between those groups lies a large and growing gap: Many companies [...]

For the past decade, HR professionals have dutifully entered employee data into HR management systems (HRMS). Every hire. Every transfer. Every departure. Within those databases lies a wealth of data [...]