When does it pay off to engage OEM power distribution experts?

It depends on your strategy, level of internal expertise, and what you need from your electrical system.

For many, business continuity is the single most important need because shutdowns are unacceptable. The cost of failure is too high. That top goal is often followed by planning and forecasting operations and opex budgets over time, and by maximizing asset lifespans and efficiency.

Engaging the services of trusted power distribution experts from original equipment manufacturers can accomplish each of these goals. They can deliver more than one might expect across the entire lifecycle of an electrical installation.

Some facility or network managers are satisfied with the current performance, efficiency, and maintenance strategy of their electrical distribution system…but whose opinions change when they see what’s actually possible. Connected, digital technologies for these networks and equipment have come a long way in recent years, and it’s easy to underestimate the extent of what they can achieve.

Advanced diagnostic services and remote monitoring, for example, can provide a detailed understanding of equipment health and how it’s operating. They use advanced predictive asset analytics and powerful IT platforms that enable early risk detection and prevent equipment failure. They do that by identifying weakened assets or malfunctions and allowing operators to proactively address problems before they lead to downtime.

Digital technologies like these also allow the development of tailored maintenance strategies that meet the exact requirements of an electrical installation and the business it powers. Coupled with the accumulated global expertise of electrical installation and equipment specialists, an ideal maintenance approach can be designed and deployed.

The results of modern electrical distribution services like these often pay off in more than supply continuity, but also in efficiency gains and avoiding capital expenditures. Not to mention the comfort in knowing that a powerful guardian is continuously watching and working to keep the power flowing.

Original equipment manufacturers are usually the best positioned to deliver services and consulting because they have a depth of cumulative understanding about how distribution equipment is designed and tested, and the broadest view of how it behaves in many thousands of different installations. Their supply chains also have direct access to spare parts.

Like a good insurance policy, power distribution services from equipment manufacturers are a reliable and powerful way to protect your business and operations. But combined with today’s digital technologies and platforms, they’re better than ever.

For more about how services fuel modern maintenance strategies that leverage IoT and digitization, read Strategies for Maintaining Electrical Distribution Equipment.


The post When does it pay off to engage OEM power distribution experts? appeared first on Schneider Electric Blog.

from Schneider Electric Blog http://ift.tt/2ihR3RL


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

EFF: No Digital Surveillance of Iranians at the U.S. Border—or Within the U.S.

No Digital Surveillance of Iranians at the U.S. Border—or Within the U.S. Only days into heightened tensions between the United States and Iran, media outlets have published disturbing reports of increased scrutiny of people of Iranian descent at U.S. borders, including in at least one case involving a traveler’s phone. EFF strongly opposes any targeting of people for digital surveillance based on their race, religion, or nationality, at our border and in our interior. And we remind all members of the public to practice surveillance self-defense. Disturbing Reports from the Border On January 5, media outlets reported that more than 60 people of Iranian descent, including U.S. citizens, were held at the border between Canada and Washington state for many hours and questioned about their perceived connections to Iran. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) denied that it detained or refused entry to Iranians based on their national origin, a claim contested by accounts f
Read more

EFF: Corporate Speech Police Are Not the Answer to Online Hate

Corporate Speech Police Are Not the Answer to Online Hate A coalition of civil rights and public interest groups issued recommendations today on policies they believe Internet intermediaries should adopt to try to address hate online. While there’s much of value in these recommendations, EFF does not and cannot support the full document. Because we deeply respect these organizations, the work they do, and the work we often do together; and because we think the discussion over how to support online expression—including ensuring that some voices aren’t drowned out by harassment or threats—is an important one, we want to explain our position. We agree that online speech is not always pretty—sometimes it’s extremely ugly and causes real world harm. The effects of this kind of speech are often disproportionately felt by communities for whom the Internet has also provided invaluable tools to organize, educate, and connect. Systemic discrimination does not disappear and can even be ampl
Read more

Living on the (IT) Edge: Schneider Electric at HPE Discover 2018

Image
We’re here at HPE Discover 2018 , proudly sponsoring the event and enjoying a jam-packed few days in Las Vegas. The data center industry has experienced tremendous disruption in the last decade. The fourth Industrial Revolution, with its IT/OT convergence, the proliferation of IoT, and insatiable demand for digital connectivity, is creating the opportunity to push the envelope of performance beyond the obvious and create new business value. And there’s no bigger opportunity right now than at the edge. At the same time, these new paradigms are also driving more complexity: companies today are trying to manage a combination of environments, from large centralized data centers on-premises or in the cloud, regional edge data centers, to local edge data centers. We have more data centers, intertwined across more locations, and with more data, than ever before. All of this adds up to promising opportunities on the horizon for our customers – but an equally daunting number of new challenges
Read more