What You Need To Know About Electrical Preventive Maintenance
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Transcript of What You Need To Know About Electrical Preventive Maintenance
Why Maintenance is a Must
Cause and Effect of Electrical Breakdown
Electrical Maintenance Tips
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Electrical preventive maintenance is a business practice critical to protecting essential equipment. Avoid unplanned interruptions to business operations by creating an action plan to proactively keep
electrical equipment in good operating condition.
Lack of electrical maintenance can lead to…
Remember these four preventive measures toprotect your electrical components and equipment.
Overheatedelectrical circuits
Loose wireconnections
Corrosion andinsulation breakdown Fire
Risky BusinessWhat You Need To Know About...
ElectricalPreventive
Maintenance
Almost 44% of electrical equipment failures areattributed to poor or non-existent maintenance.
The top three contributing factors to electricalfailure are humidity, dust and temperature.
When to consider infrared testing:
65% of fires involving electrical failure or malfunction is from
electrical arcing.
Infrared testing is used to identify electrical system problems by measuring the heat signature of electrical equipment while in operation. An infrared scan will detect electrical hazards, such as
defective components or other serious conditions before they lead to damage or fire.
The average downtime for a typical oil-filled transformer at a commercial business is over12 days before it can be replaced.
77% of fixed-mounted circuit breakers failed while in service due to lack of maintenance.
The types of equipment failures that resulted in more than 30% of production losses and associated downtime involved switchgears, cable connections, bus ducts and transformers.
Clean Cool Dry Tight
Practice good housekeeping and
remove all combustibles from electrical rooms.
Ensure electrical components are
located in a well ventilated room.
Maintain low levels of humidity and moisture with no signs of water.
Use sealed penetrations
and tight connections.
Infrared Testing
Annually as part of an electricalpreventive maintenance program
For daily verification checks of“mission critical” equipment
If your property experiencesany electrical issues
Every 6 months for locations thathave severe operating conditions
