Get rid of black boxes
Integrate turbine automation into your power plant's control system
Already using Valmet DNA for plant automation? Extend that same proven reliability, transparency, and expertise to your turbine controls. Integrating your turbine automation into the existing DCS can significantly boost efficiency, improve visibility, and simplify operations.
Full system transparency
Seamless integration
Faster, more reliable fault diagnostics
Long lifecycle & local support
From black box to full visibility: FCC Environment’s turbine automation integration
FCC Environment’s operation and maintenance teams faced a challenge: their turbine automation system offered little transparency, making proactive decision-making nearly impossible.
✅ The solution: removing the original system and integrating turbine automation into the existing Valmet DNA Automation system
✅ The result: real-time insights, improved efficiency, and empowered teams.
Discover the full customer success story and see how FCC Environment achieved smoother operations, smarter maintenance, and measurable improvements in turbine performance.
Why integrate standalone turbine automation with Valmet DNA?
Many power plants using standalone "black box" turbine control systems face key challenges:
- Limited visibility into turbine logic and data
- Delayed fault diagnostics due to disconnected systems
- Aging or obsolete control hardware
- Increased complexity from managing spare parts and lifecycle of multiple vendor platforms
Valmet’s solution: turbine control inside Valmet DNA DCS
By integrating turbine automation directly into your existing Valmet DNA DCS, you can eliminate these issues and unlock powerful long-term benefits:
- Full system transparency - An open, unified architecture - no more black boxes. Modify control logic using the same tools applied throughout your plant.
- True seamless integration - One shared environment for turbine, boiler, and balance-of-plant - no gateways, custom interfaces, or fragmented engineering tools.
- Reliable, faster diagnostics - All data managed natively within the DCS, including alarms, timestamps, events, and trends -streamlining troubleshooting.
- Simplified lifecycle and local expertise - A future-proof solution, supported by Valmet’s strong local and global service network. One partner for your entire automation platform.
Why choose Valmet?
Valmet is a trusted global partner in power plant automation with decades of proven experience. Valmet has a strong installed base globally, having delivered control systems to numerous existing power plants.
While we’re well known for our Valmet DNA platform - and the recently launched Valmet DNAe DCS - we are also an experienced and proven partner in the turbine controls field.
Over the last 30 years, we’ve successfully delivered turbine automation systems for both new-build projects and replacements of competitor systems.
Over 30 years of Valmet expertise in turbine control systems
A fully integrated, one-stop solution for turbine automation
Rather than relying on multiple sub-systems from different vendors for governor control, auxiliary systems, protection, and vibration monitoring, Valmet provides an all-in-one solution for steam, gas and hydro turbines. This simplifies the system architecture, as well as its operation and maintenance.
With Valmet, customers benefit from a single point of contact throughout the turbine automation project and its entire lifecycle - a true "one-stop shop." Backed by decades of experience, Valmet delivers end-to-end turbine automation solutions that integrate seamlessly with the Valmet DNA DCS, covering everything from core control systems to installation and commissioning.
Everything you need: from control systems to commissioning
- Turbine control system
- Turbine protection and overspeed protection
- Condition monitoring
- Information management and reporting
- Field instrumentation
- Generator automation solutions (in collaboration with trusted partners)
- Hydraulic system modernization (in collaboration with trusted partners)
- Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) using advanced simulation environments
- Cabinet assembly and installation supervision
- Commissioning and performance tuning
Valmet offers a comprehensive portfolio of turbine control and automation solutions
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Ready to optimize your turbine control?
We believe this integration could be a turning point for your plant’s performance. Let’s explore a tailored solution for your operation.
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