AVAT and KBB team up in turbocharger digitisation drive

Turbochargers are crucial to the performance and efficiency of internal combustion engines in maritime applications and stationary power plants for energy production.

This new system of hardware and software is designed to collect and analyse a broad spectrum of operational data and metrics directly from the turbocharger, offering insights into the current operating conditions and potential damage patterns. By examining this data, it becomes possible to detect areas for optimisation in real-time and to proactively identify maintenance needs.

Data gathered over the long term through this innovative digital solution will further refine detection capabilities by enabling time-based comparisons that reveal changes in turbocharger performance and operation. As the data pool grows, damage detection will become increasingly precise, supporting the development of new, data-driven maintenance intervals over time.

Such predictive maintenance helps to prevent costly equipment failures. The partnership between AVAT and KBB thus merges decades of expertise in turbocharger technology with leading competencies in the automation and digitalisation of power plant systems.