Management system for industrial applications IPS® Relay Expert

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Overview Our Protective Relay and Intelligent Electronic Devices (IED) Management solution provides centralized asset and configuration management for protective relays and IEDs across the full settings and configuration lifecycle, from request for change through development, approval, commissioning and verification. The solution supports interoperability with network models and industry standards to maintain secure, auditable protection settings.

Key features

• Native integration with Network Model Management (NMM) enabling consistent network data across protection domains.
• Standards compliance including IEC 61850, IEC 61970 and NERC requirements (PRC-023, PRC-025, PRC-026, PRC-027).
• Comprehensive master-type IED library and protection data model library maintained for standards alignment.
• End-to-end lifecycle handling for settings and configurations: request, development, approval, commissioning and verification.
• Component-based asset modelling with hierarchical organisation to manage individual parts of digital protection assets.
• IPS® Component Management for standardized type-level design, version control, filtering, browsing and maintenance insight.
• Automated data import and structured data model to enable fast access, tracking and analysis of protection device information.
• IPS® Relay Expert module group for specialized relay management, documentation, settings, test templates and automatic reporting.

Benefits

• Accurate component management and version control for consistent asset tracking.
• Structured setting workflow management (IPS®SWM) with three-tier workflows: System Change Notification, Global Setting Requests and Relay Setting Requests, including customizable Global Request workflows.
• Enterprise Wide Area Protection Coordination (WAPC) enabling exchange of relay settings with third-party calculation tools and integration of study results into maintenance and commissioning processes.

Setting Workflow Management (details) IPS® Setting Workflow Management (IPS®SWM) organises relay setting activities into three tiers: System Change Notification (events that may modify settings), Global Setting Requests (affecting multiple relays) and Relay Setting Requests (single relay). Each tier follows defined workflows; Global Setting Request workflows are fully configurable to match organisational processes.

Enterprise Wide Area Protection Coordination Process (details) Protective relay settings are exchanged with third-party settings calculation tools and network models to carry out Wide Area Protection Coordination studies. Resulting setting change requests are routed into maintenance management and distributed to protection teams for commissioning and verification.

FAQs (high-level)

• What is Protection Relay Management? Asset and configuration management specialized for protective relays and IEDs covering the settings lifecycle from request to final verification.
• Why is NMM integration important? It centralizes network models, imports data from multiple tools and improves accuracy and traceability of relay settings across network changes.
• How does the solution ensure compliance? Through master-type libraries, NMM integration, adherence to IEC 61850 and NERC standards and controlled lifecycle processes from request to verification.
• What is the main advantage? The IPS® Relay Expert modules that centralize relay data, documentation, settings and testing activities to improve operational efficiency and auditability.

Technical specifications

• Standards support: IEC 61850, IEC 61970, NERC (PRC-023, PRC-025, PRC-026, PRC-027, others).
• Native NMM integration for network model centralization and interoperability.
• Master-type IED library and continuously updated protection data models.
• IPS® Component Management with hierarchical component modelling and standardized type-level designs.
• IPS® Setting Workflow Management (IPS®SWM) with three-tier workflows: System Change Notification, Global Setting Requests (configurable), Relay Setting Requests.
• Enterprise WAPC support: exchange with third-party calculation tools and distribution of study results to maintenance and commissioning teams.
• IPS® Relay Expert modules for settings management, documentation, test templates and reporting.
• Data lifecycle coverage: request, development, approval, commissioning, verification.