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Computers, Materials & Continua
DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.021885
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Article

Intelligent Integrated Model for Improving Performance in Power Plants

Ahmed Ali Ajmi1,2, Noor Shakir Mahmood1,2, Khairur Rijal Jamaludin1,*, Hayati Habibah Abdul Talib1, Shamsul Sarip1 and Hazilah Mad Kaidi1

1Razak Faculty of Technology and Informatics, UTM, 54100, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2University of Technology, Ministry of Electricity GCEP/Middle Region Baghdad, Iraq
*Corresponding Author: Khairur Rijal Jamaludin. Email: khairur.kl@utm.my
Received: 18 July 2021; Accepted: 19 August 2021

Abstract: Industry 4.0 is expected to play a crucial role in improving energy management and personnel performance in power plants. Poor performance problem in maintaining power plants is the result of both human errors, human factors and the poor implementation of automation in energy management. This problem can potentially be solved using artificial intelligence (AI) and an integrated management system (IMS). This article investigates the current challenges to improving personnel and energy management performance in power plants, identifies the critical success factors (CSFs) for an integrated intelligent framework, and develops an intelligent framework that enables power plants to improve performance. The theoretical basis is founded on a systematic literature review to locate 110 out of 3108 papers studied carefully to examine the performance architecture that best enables effective maintenance. The findings from this literature review are combined with expert judgment and the big data advantages of AI applications to develop an intelligent model. Data are collected from a power plant in Iraq. To ensure the reliability of the proposed model, various hypotheses are tested using structural equation modeling. The results confirm that the measurement model is acceptable, and that the hypotheses are supported and significant. A case study demonstrates the strong relationship and significance between big data of performance and the CSFs. It is hoped that this model will be adopted to enable performance improvement in power plants.

Keywords: Industry 4.0; artificial intelligence; critical success factors; decision making; integrated management system; maintenance

1  Introduction

Performance in the maintenance of power plant facilities often poses significant risks. To address the consequences of human errors, it is necessary to focus on the human factors related to these risks [1]. Artificial intelligence (AI), integrated management system (IMS) and the Internet of Things can help improve performance toward the vision of Industry 4.0 in power plants, which anticipates advanced levels of automated performance [2]. Industry 4.0 is intended to integrate performance within power plants, thus reducing human errors and ensuring high energy efficiency [3]. Lack of intelligent integration of performance and poor automation in the maintenance of power plants causes losses that are roughly 2.5 times higher than those attributed to hardware failure [4]. In terms of maintenance, personnel performance is closely related to energy management performance, and is thus a factor in energy consumption and human errors [5,6], although further investigation is required to determine the interaction between personnel, energy management, and the critical success factors (CSFs) associated with thermal and gas power plant maintenance [7].

To date, most previous studies dealing with improvements to performance have focused on nuclear power plants. Relatively few studies have analyzed the performance in the maintenance of thermal and gas power plants and the associated effects on the reliability of the power generation system. Using a systematic literature review (SLR), this study identifies the existing problems and challenges facing performance in power plants. This SLR investigates several studies using modern technologies and categorizes them based on their focus and findings. The previous literature dealing with the interaction between personnel performance and energy management performance in maintaining power plants is analyzed in an attempt to answer three specific research questions: (RQ1) What are the current challenges facing the improvement of performance in the maintenance of power plants? (RQ2) What are the CSFs for integrating an intelligent performance improvement framework? (RQ3) Is it possible to develop an intelligent framework that can improve performance? This study provides a new vision for improving performance based on Industry 4.0 and AI, clarifying the integration of personal performance with energy management performance in gas and thermal power plants within an intelligent framework. To achieve this, 110 studies from five reliable databases are analyzed. Using the results of this analysis, an intelligent framework for performance integration is then developed, along with the judgment of experts working in power plants. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to collect and organize existing evidence in order to develop an intelligent framework. The proposed framework will assist power plants in overcoming poor performance, reducing human errors, and enhancing energy management.

2  Methodology

Great efforts were made to address the scarcity of data. To enhance the SLR, a framework was constructed based on the Industry 4.0 vision. The object of this study was a power plant in Iraq. Most power plants in Iraq are old and have complex performance and energy management problems, making them suitable for such studies. A two-way approach was adopted in which information from energy experts and power plant specialists was used in the development stage to increase reliability. The aim of the study was to systematically investigate the CSFs for improving performance in power plants under the Industry 4.0 vision. Fig. 1 illustrates the complete methodology of the SLR.

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Figure 1: Research methodology flowchart

2.1 Quality Assessment

To ensure the quality of the SLR and reduce the possibility of bias, the selected articles were screened and filtered using a three-step process. First, the selected papers were scanned to identify their general content and eliminate duplicates. Second, the articles were examined in more detail (abstracts and conclusions), and those failing to meet the predetermined criteria were excluded. Third, the papers were read thoroughly, at which point we attempted to emulate the authors’ work. This phase allows the novelty, strengths, and weaknesses of an article to be identified. This stage further excluded articles that did not meet the needs of the present study. For reference management, EndNote X9 was used to classify, sort, and delete duplicate articles. Finally, the Newcastle Ottawa Scale (NOS) assessed the quality of the remaining literature. The quality assessment was conducted by three of the authors independently, and a fourth reviewer resolved any disagreements.

2.2 Study Protocol and Criteria

The study developed a protocol and a set of stringent criteria for analyzing published studies and discover the patterns of existing research to help us identify research gaps. The research adopted a clearly defined, rigorous, and reliable approach that allows presenting objective and reproducible results to reduce possible bias. Study criteria include i) articles written in English only; ii) focused specifically on discussing or investigating the performance of energy management and personnel. Fig. 2 shown the criteria and steps used to identify the literature to be included in the analysis.

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Figure 2: Steps in identifying the literature included in the analysis

3  Results of SLR

The initial search located 3108 articles. Of these, 1997 were sourced from ScienceDirect, 87 were from IEEE Xplore, 44 were from Web of Science, 757 were from Springer Link, and 223 were from Scopus. All articles were published between 2014 and 2020. Accessibility issues prevented us from downloading three papers from Web of Science and two papers from Springer Link. The selected papers were filtered based on the research sequence described in the previous section: 197 papers that appeared in all five search engines were excluded, and the remaining articles were examined in further detail. Finally, 110 articles were considered relevant to the present study.

3.1 Analysis of the Performance Shaping Factors Architecture in Industry 4.0

The 110 articles remaining after the three-step filtering process can be categorized into two classes: (i) personnel performance and (ii) energy management performance.

3.1.1 Human Factors

Human factors should not be overlooked, as they play a key role in ensuring the stability of maintenance procedures. Indeed, both the culture of maintenance and employee performance are essential variables in improving human factors [8,9]. Meta-analysis of human factors could help improve employee performance in power plants [10]. Similarly, human factors have been analyzed in terms of the risks faced by thermal power plants’ maintenance staff [11]. This analysis showed that, to minimize such errors, understanding human behavior is imperative. Apart from staff behavior, another cause of poor performance is fatigue, time stress, work overload, and lack of teamwork [1214]. It has been suggested that optimizing maintenance schedules can reduce work overload [15]. Other articles focused on current and future human factors related to interactions between different management decision-making processes [1619]. It has been reported that interest in human factors in maintenance and operation can be considered one of the tools for the digital transformation of the industry, improving employee reliability [2022]. Finally, human performance fundamentally affects power system operation reliability [23].

3.1.2 Human Error

Human errors in power plant maintenance increase the percentage of dangerous accidents, production delays, and losses of money and time [24]. The effects of human errors on power systems have been analyzed [2527], and the factors causing human errors in power systems have been classified using statistical methods [28,29]. Case studies have attempted to measure the human errors in power plants in an attempt to form a cognitive, systemic mechanism to minimize such errors [30,31]. Based on two case studies and questionnaires, a Bayesian network has been used to develop a human error probability model [32]. Human errors significantly affect power system operations, and so a modified evaluation models of power system reliability have been developed by integrating human efforts with protection system failures [3335].

3.1.3 Energy Management Performance in Industry 4.0

We now focus on issues, technologies, and case studies related to employee performance and energy management practices in maintenance and operation activities. This section investigates and examines the available empirical evidence to clarify the relationship between employee performance and energy management. Two case studies [36,37] investigated employee factors related to energy efficiency and energy reduction in factories through semi-structured interviews. The results indicated a strong relationship between employee performance and energy efficiency. Another study [38] developed a framework that enables human-centric energy efficiency to be enhanced, so that interactions between personnel and assets that consume energy can be improved. Four other articles [3942] investigated the role of workers in raising energy efficiency in the workplace. Interpretive structural modeling has been used to show that human factors and the workplace environment play an important role in energy management [43,44]. The challenges and benefits of implementing energy management in a factory were analyzed in [45], which recommended adopting energy management within maintenance processes. Reference [46] presented several interdisciplinary concepts relating to human performance interaction for energy efficacy, whilst [4749] investigated how the support and leadership style of top management figures influenced decision-making regarding improvements in maintenance energy efficiency. The effect of personnel performance roles on energy policy research has been studied [50,51], and a new model-based assessment of industrial workers’ behavior in relation to energy saving social factors and personnel training has been utilized to save energy in maintenance tasks [52,53]. Human performance is vital in enhancing energy management during maintenance by controlling exactly when equipment is shut down and started up [5461]. Improve the interaction between performance shaping factor with energy management performance is important in industry 4.0 with more attention in CSFs such as skill flexibility, commitment, motivation, energy policy, continuous improvement and top management support [6266]. Fig. 3 refers to the current literature trends in energy management performance based on our literature review.

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Figure 3: Current trends in energy management performance

3.2 Success Indicators of Integration Performance for Personnel and Energy Management

A careful study of the previous literature has identified the most important indicators for the successful integration of personnel performance with energy management performance in power plants. The CSFs help power plants to attain their goals. The most important CSFs identified by previous studies are listed in Tab. 1. The CSFs are maintenance culture (MC) or Leadership practice (LP), teamwork (TE), skill flexibility (SF), commitment (CO), motivation (M), time pressure (TP), awareness (A), work overload (WO), top management support (TMS), energy efficiency (EE), energy policy (EP), and continuous improvement (CI).

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This study investigates the integration between CSFs for personnel performance and CSFs for energy management performance. The goal of this analysis is to reduce human errors and improve human factors in the workplace, thus optimizing maintenance performance in power plants. Fig. 4 illustrates the contribution of various indicators of success for any integration between performance elements.

3.3 Results of SLR

3.3.1 Distribution by Publication Year

In Fig. 5, the articles analyzed in the SLR are grouped according to year of publication. For each year in the period 2014–2020, the articles were broken down according to whether they focus on performance reliability or energy management.

3.3.2 Distribution by Nationality

Fig. 6 shows that authors from 41 countries published reports relating to reliability and performance in the maintenance during the period 2014–2020. The nationality distribution of 110 technology-related papers in numbers and showed that the main contributors are from the United States (27), followed by China (18); Germany (10); United Kingdom (9); South Korea (8); Australia (7); Iran (6); Brazil, France, and Italy (5 each); Belgium, India, and Norway (4 each); Canada, Malaysia, Denmark and Sweden (3 each); Turkey, Belgium, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, and Spain (2 each); Argentina, Belgrade, Colombia, Czech Republic, Finland, Indonesia, Ireland, New Zealand, Pakistan, Russian, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Slovakia, South Africa, Georgia, Slovenia, Japan and Algeria (1 each).

3.3.3 Distribution by Methodology Type

Fig. 7 illustrates the various methodologies used in the articles considered herein. The most common approach was a case study and questionnaire, which featured in 71% of articles. While 12% of articles opted for the survey as an approach to optimize the study's subject, flowed by 10% of articles used the literature review and 7% are other articles that did not fall under earlier classifications that had been used various methodologies. According to these statistics, case studies and questionnaires are considered the leading and best methodologies for this type of studies.

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Figure 4: Effect of various indicators of success

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Figure 5: Statistics of articles by publication year

3.4 Discussion of SLR

The literature review focused on the current state-of-the-art in the maintenance of power plants by examining the interaction between personnel and energy management performance. By categorizing the literature, readers will be able to understand the topic in an organized manner. For instance, in terms of performance architecture, it is clear that researchers are inclined to propose human performance developments in nuclear power plants, with relatively few applications to other power plants. Some researchers have focused on applications reported in multiple articles, such as Bayesian networks and fuzzy systems, but have paid little attention to social factors affecting workers. There has been very little focus on CSFs for either personnel performance and CSFs for energy management with quality energy management in thermal and gas power plants. The SLR highlighted the performance aspects in maintenance that have not received sufficient attention in the previous literature. There is a dearth of information on performance in power plants (thermal and gas) and the critical need to identify relevant CSFs. Analysis of the literature has shown that further investigations are needed to develop the interaction between performance-shaping factors and energy management in power plants so as to minimize human errors.

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Figure 6: Statistics of articles by authors’ nationality

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Figure 7: Methodologies applied in the articles

3.5 Current Challenges

Analysis of the previous literature indicates a lack of identification of the CSFs for the integration of performance-improving factors with energy management in power plants. Poor performance is not confined to a specific country, but is a complex problem facing most power plants, especially thermal and gas power plants. Rigorous formulations of error, such as by the mean squared error (MSE), will help reduce the incidence of human errors [67,68]. The literature survey confirmed that human errors in power plant maintenance have increased due to the weak development of performance-shaping factors and the lack of adoption of AI applications. Based on the literature survey, we can summarize some important open issues and challenges that need further investigations:

(i)   Weak interest in improving performance through Industry 4.0 has created a workplace environment in which human errors in power plant maintenance have increased.

(ii)   There is a lack of comprehensive studies on the integration of personnel performance and energy management performance to improve performance energy management and personnel in gas and thermal power plants.

(iii)   No worthwhile studies have addressed the integration of CSFs for personnel and energy management performance, and there is no conceptual framework for optimizing personnel and energy management performance in Iraqi power plants.

(iv)   Power plants are suffering from neglect in their maintenance culture, particularly in leadership practices and style as a mediator or moderator.

(v)   The lack of studies that identified the CSFs to the success ISO 50001 energy management program in power plants, which seeks to integrate the CSFs associated with energy management and quality management.

(vi)   No previous studies have integrated the CSFs associated with energy management and the CSFs associated with quality management to success energy management in the power plant . Doing so would enable the optimization of performance and energy management in one intelligent system, with the leadership or organizational culture used as a mediator or moderator for improving overall performance.

Neglecting to improve these factors leads to an increase in delays in maintenance, Losses in costs and time, accidents, increased failures, losses in electricity production, poor reliability, and energy management weakness.

3.6 Artificial Intelligence and Performance Improvement in Industry 4.0

AI can help systems to correctly interpret and utilize data for continuous improvement [69]. In 2012, convolutional neural networks hurried to control on computer research domain and human performance improvement in conjunction with Industry 4.0, and in 2016, the Alpha-Go algorithm was applied to human performance problems in the industry [70]. Regarding the human errors that affect performance-shaping factors, several researchers have suggested methodologies for reducing errors through the concept of AI [71]. The SLR performed in this study has found that AI methodologies have the potential to integrate personnel performance and energy management performance in power plants. However, an intelligent model that can improve performance is still required.

4  Development of an Intelligent Integrated Framework

We now propose an intelligent framework for the integration of performance in power plants based on Industry 4.0. An integrated management system IMS will allow groups of different processes and systems to be combined in one intelligent model for continuous improvement, enabling organizations to achieve their goals [72,73]. The integration between CSFs for personnel performance management and energy management helps the power plants to reduce human errors and improve human factors in maintaining power plants. Presenting with research gaps and open issues identified, there is an urgent need to develop a conceptual framework to improve overall performance and promote positive interaction between personnel performance and energy management performance in ergonomics power plant maintenance. The performance success indicators identified by this study are used to develop ten hypotheses. The obsolescence of power plants, the apparent weak performance in the electricity sector, was the main reason that encouraged researchers to choose a power plant in Iraq as a model for predicting performance and applying the systematic review results. So, it is considered a good research environment. The researchers took advantage of the comments of the energy experts working in that power plant to consolidate the proposed model by the online meeting. The experts agreed with the analyzed literature on selecting critical success factors to improve performance. This study adopted positivism philosophy and deductive approach. It used the literature to identify theories and variables that the researcher teste using available data. The research object was an Iraqi power plant. A questionnaire consisting of closed questions adopted from [74]. The respondents’ sample was who are working in power plant and responses were received July 2021 by Cross-sectional time with simple random sampling techniques. All responses used Likert's Five-Point Scale.

4.1 Hypothesis Development of Case Study

To address the research gaps in previous studies, various hypotheses tested the theoretical model for performance improvement. The CSFs that obtained the highest scores in the literature review (see Table and Fig. 8) were adopted , which represents the indicators of CSFs to integration performance for personnel and energy management that includes: skill flexibility (SF) and Awareness (A) by 60% followed by the energy policy (EP) 56%, commitment (C) 52%, Teamwork (TE) 48%, work overload (WO) 44%, top management support (TMS) 44%, motivation (M) 44% as the independent variables. Personnel performance (PP) and energy management performance (EMP) are considered as the dependent variables. The purpose of the hypotheses is to verify the reliability with which each factor enhances the integrated performance. The ten research hypotheses are as follows:

H1. Big data for performance through SF has a significant relationship with performance integration.

H2. Big data for performance through A has a significant relationship with performance integration.

H3. Big data for performance through EP has a significant relationship with performance integration.

H4. Big data for performance through C has a significant relationship with performance integration.

H5. Big data for performance through TE has a significant relationship with performance integration.

H6. Big data for performance through WO has a significant relationship with performance integration.

H7. Big data for performance through TMS has a significant relationship with performance integration.

H8. Big data for performance through M has a significant relationship with performance integration.

H9. Intelligent performance integration has a significant relationship with PP.

H10. Intelligent performance integration has a significant relationship with EMP.

Fig. 8 refers to the conceptual model implemented to study the independent variables (IV) that consist of CSFs that derived from the big data for performance with the dependent variable (DV) of intelligent performance integration, which includes PP and EMP in the maintenance of power plants.

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Figure 8: Conceptual integration model for optimizing performance

4.2 Measurement Model

Structural equation modeling (SEM) is frequently used for multivariate data analysis [75]. To evaluate the reliability of the proposed model, partial least-squares-based SEM (PLS-SEM) was used within the WarpPLS program which proved successful in this type of studies. Their work was approved in high-ranking journals like [76]. This study analyzed the quality indicators to study the typical suitability of the selected factors and found important, as summarized in Tab. 2. A reliability test and causal assessment recorded scores higher than 0.50 for all variables: SF (0.79), A (0.82), EP (0.91), C (0.87), T (0.76), WO (0.84), TMS (0.78), M (0.79), PP (0.90), EMP (0.89). The analysis results indicate the reliability of the factors and the constructs, as all results were above 0.50. The results confirm the measurement model proposed acceptable with the Cronbach's alpha values, which should be above 0.50, are as follows: SF (0.75), A (0.79), EP (0.88), C (0.89), T (0.80), WO (0.81), TMS (0.88), M (0.81), PP (0.91), EMP (0.87). These results indicate that the model is highly reliable and acceptable (see Tab. 3). All hypotheses proposed above were supported and have a significant relationship with performance integration. In particular, we found significant relationships between intelligent performance integration and personnel performance (H9) and between intelligent performance integration and energy management performance (H10).

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5  Conclusion and Recommendation

The study has investigated the performance shaping factors and energy management in power plants. The results of an SLR and a case study show that poor performance in the maintenance of power plants is largely down to human error. The absence of AI applications and the lack of integration of performance-shaping factors with energy management has contributed to an increase in the occurrence of such errors. This study used the outputs of the SLR analysis to develop an intelligent model for the integration of personnel performance with energy management performance in the maintenance of power plants through a case study conducted in one of the power plants. Analysis using PLS-SEM found that the selected factors were of significant importance to power plant maintenance. A reliability test and causal assessment found that a number of indicators scored higher than 0.50 for reliability, and the proposed measurement model was confirmed to be acceptable according to the Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient. The case study results confirmed a strong relationship and significance between performance and the identified CSFs. Also confirmed the absence of ISO 5001 energy management programs and quality management programs in the Iraqi power plants. This means the failure of the energy management file and poor performance (personnel and energy management) in the Iraqi maintenance power plants. The research contributions of this study are twofold. First, we have created a coherent taxonomy of research on performance in power plant maintenance, allowing research gaps and current issues to be identified and addressed. Second, the proposed AI model will enable human errors in power plants to be reduced, thus improving the overall maintenance performance. Based on the results of this study, the following recommendations are made:

(i)   More research should be conducted on the performance-shaping factors in thermal and gas power plants.

(ii)   Applications of AI according to the vision of Industry 4.0 should be investigated in gas and thermal power plants.

(iii)   A bi-annual cycle should be used to track motivation and competence levels (qualification and certification), along with maintenance performance results.

(iv)   Future studies should focus on maintenance culture, top management support, or leadership practice as a mediator or moderator for enhancing performance.

(v)   The CSFs for energy management ISO 50001 should be integrated with quality management to be as an IEQM that include (energy policy, service quality improvement, top management support, awareness, strategic planning, energy management team and energy audit) in power plants, and the organization's culture should be used as a moderator or mediator.

(vi)   Further investigation on the integration the CSFs of PP and EMP represented by teamwork, work overload, time pressure, motivation, commitment, skill flexibility, and top management support should be conducted with the leadership practice as mediator or moderator to improve overall performance and enhance and improve maintenance procedures.

Acknowledgement: Foremost, the authors express their sincere gratitude to Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM)/Razak Faculty of Technology and Informatics for providing financial support. Furthermore, the authors are incredibly grateful to the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity for providing the necessary data.

Funding Statement: This work was supported/funded by the Ministry of Higher Education/University of Technology Malaysia under the Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS/1/2019/TK08/UTM/02/4).

Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest to report regarding the present study.

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