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EP's
DISTRIBUTED POWER QUALITY APPROACH
In the digital world
of today, a distributed approach to power
quality must be considered. As the equipment
in the facility has changed over the past
20 years, so has the root cause of all
power quality problems. It is no longer
beneficial to a facility to adapt legacy
solutions (devices that shunt energy into
the ground loop), capacitor banks, etc.
to address modern day power quality issues.
The issue of fast rising low amplitude
transients in the system that oscillate
into high frequency voltage and current
noise can only be addressed by removing
them from the electrical distribution
system (including the ground wire) from
the nearest point of their creation.
TOP
5 REASONS TO BUY EP:
1. INTERRUPTION
OF BUSINESS PROCESS
Pick
any industry and in any instance where
there is a cause for work stoppage due
to electrical or electronic equipment - there is "latent" pain. This is
pain where you just throw your arms in
the air and proclaim "this always
happens when we can least afford it,"
and have no answer for the problem. Too many organizations chalk this up to "the price of doing business." Stop eating those costs!
2. DOWNTIME
As
opposed to "latent" pain, this
is "obvious" pain. You know
the results of this issue down to the
dollar figure. The assets that drive the
business's revenue are typically electrical
or electronically controlled. This is
different from intermittent interruption
as stated above (i.e., the equipment isn't
down, but needs rebooting, reprogramming,
or worked around). This is referring to
unscheduled loss of revenue producing
assets - think beer bottling and the conveyor
blows a power supply, or the photovoltaic
sensor burns out, or a motor excessively overheats and fails.
3. MAINTENANCE
The
TCO, or Total Cost of Ownership of an
asset increases proportionally - and probably
exponentially - when parts required to
keep it running and manual labor to fix
things are added to the equation. Part
of any manufacturing or process automation
strategy includes a key function of the
CMMS or computerized maintenance management
system. That function is called Repair
or Replace criteria. When you can reduce the need to make those decisions,
companies see a direct impact to the bottom
line.
4. ROI
The
Return On Investment is a financial criteria
used in the equation for justifying any
capital expenditure. When your company
decides to buy a new press, boring drill,
CNC machine, large motor, hydraulic power
unit, or any expensive piece of revenue
producing apparatus, there is a business
case to support it. Protecting the "brains,"
logic, or intelligence of the system that
controls that investment's functionality
is critical to the business case. Spending
millions of dollars in many cases for
expensive revenue producing assets are
instances where a technology that can
protect the business case is ideal.
5. UPGRADE
It's
been 30 years since there has been anything
remotely tangent to bringing the legacy
distribution systems that are everywhere
- even in new construction - up to par
considering the sensitivity of the equipment
that will be powered by them. It is not
good enough anymore for a specifying consultant
or design-build engineer to not engage
the owner and discuss elements beyond
power/load requirements. If considerations
for circuit sophistication, asset lifecycle
extension, and business process are not
included in the design phase, then the
ramifications are predictable, and not
pleasant.
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What
is the cost of your downtime when your
sensitive electronics fail?
