Strategic of Maintenance on Substation: Approaching with Digitalization

Currently, the world is entering a disruptive era where there is no guarantee that a company will survive for long, including large companies that have long been market leaders. PLN, as the largest electricity company in Indonesia, also needs to anticipate potential future changes, also PLN transform to objectify the vision to be 500 global top companies and first customer choose for energy through three moonshots: Growth Moonshots, Digital Moonshots and NZE Moonshots. Be adaptive to change, and proactive towards all potential opportunities that arise. The top leaders of PLN respond to this condition by providing innovative guidance to make changes through digitalization in all aspects, including asset management such as substations and protection. PLN (Persero) UIT JBT is an asset management unit for transmission with a large asset base managing 241 substations, 547 transformers with a capacity of 46,052 MVA. Recognizing this, the management of PLN (Persero) UIT JBT sees an opportunity in efficient, fast, and integrated asset management. The existence of business processes that support digitalization changes the perspective of asset management from previously manual and time-consuming to innovative SMARTNESS (Substation Equipment and Protection Inspection System) which acronym results in real-time maintenance being stored in a web-based platform, and equipment health index being automatically calculated by the application. Therefore, digitalization of transmission asset management plays a significant role in speeding up decision-making and improving equipment reliability. After implemented SMARTNESS, the planning and evaluation for the replacement of the equipment are neater, and these applications are become a benchmark for decision making for almost the next 3 years in PLN-UIT JBT