High quality power is vital to ensuring productive and effective operations. But, not knowing the health of your electrical and metering systems and what’s flowing into your network can adversely affect the overall performance of your operations day in and day out.

The electrical system that powers your operation’s equipment, motors, lighting, data servers and more plays a major role in the productivity, operational efficiency and profitability of your business. Unfortunately, electric power systems often get overlooked by businesses seeking to increase their levels of efficiency, reduce the risk of potential downtime and minimize equipment failure.

What You Don’t Know Can Actually Hurt Your Business.

For instance, you may not realize how something as fundamental as power quality can affect the efficiency, output, safety and bottom line of your whole operation. Or how issues, such as harmonic distortion, overvoltage and undervoltage can adversely affect operations, creating conditions such as overheating of motors and transformers, malfunctioning microprocessor-based equipment, decreased efficiency, erratic system performance, reduced equipment life or failures, damage to integrated circuits and fire hazards.

Something as common as an overloaded transformer can lead to transformer failure, increased carbon footprint, unnecessary operational expense overages, and even increased personnel and site risk from potential transformer explosions.

Issues, such as voltage imbalance and power factor can also have negative effects on assets and operations. Unexpected downtime and maintenance expenses due to asset malfunctions and failures can result from voltage imbalance, particularly in operations utilizing three-phase induction motors. When an electrical system’s power factor is taken into account, it can make a significant difference in how efficiently your equipment uses energy. Transformers, motors and ballasts that are not operating at optimal efficiency can be a drag on your system, creating lagging power factors that are unnecessarily costly in terms of capex and opex and leading to possible penalties from your electric utility. To learn more about the types of damaging power quality issues in your facility, download the Effects of Electric Power Quality Brochure.

Monitor Your Power for Greater Efficiency and Performance.

EcoStruxure Power Advisor allows you to be proactive in addressing electrical power issues that lead to potential downtime, asset failures and unnecessary increases in capex and opex costs. With around-the-clock monitoring and the comprehensive insights EcoStruxure Power Advisor provides into your electrical system and meters, you can be ensured your electrical system is operating at optimal capacity to achieve:

• Increased equipment and operational efficiency
• Optimized power consumption
• Increased equipment life expectancy
• Reduced capex, opex and maintenance costs
• Reduced environmental impact