Nearly 70% of early equipment failures can be traced to design, installation or startup deficiencies. Similarly, newly launched plants experience many unnecessary outages due to improper coordination and calibration of protective devices, wiring errors, design errors, etc. In other cases, the failures don’t occur until months after the facility has gone into operation and the warranties have expired. Loose connections or insulation damage may not show up until more equipment comes online and electrical loads increase.

When normal start-up testing isn’t performed (usually to save a few dollars), the results can be disastrous. Perfectly good switchgear, transformers or other equipment can be “smoked” due to relatively small installation errors.

Your insurance company may also require professional electrical acceptance testing before your new electrical equipment is energized to verify that it meets code requirements and satisfies the intent of your application. Fail to provide solid testing evidences in such catastrophic events, your company likely face a big loss of insurance compensation.

Commissioning is an important part of developing an ongoing preventive maintenance program. It gives you the confidence to know that your equipment will function safely in the intended manner, and commissioning helps to avoid downtime due to malfunctioning equipment. The tests we perform during commissioning, such as transformer testing, also provide the baseline data required for the long-term preventive maintenance program.