Get rid of black boxes

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 - Complete control with an open platform; modify logic freely using the same tools used across your plant.
• Simplified troubleshooting - Faster and more reliable fault diagnostics with all data handled natively within the same system, including events, alarms, and time-stamping.
• Long-term reliability - Future-proof solutions supported by Valmet’s local service presence and expertise.
• Reduced complexity and cost - Seamless integration with no gateways or custom interfaces, unifying boiler, balance of plant, and turbine systems.
• Improved efficiency - Optimized operation across all systems for higher overall plant performance.

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.
Contact Valmet to integrate turbine automation

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