Evaluating the Reliability of Your Electrical Distribution System

Electrical reliability requirements for facilities vary based on their criticality to the organization. Unplanned outages can cost millions of dollars in damages, directly and indirectly. Furthermore, it impacts the performance and compensation of a facility’s engineers, operators and plant managers. Although poorly understood among stakeholders, electrical system reliability is directly tied to productivity and operating cost. This presentation will demonstrate that by quantifying the statistical probability of an electrical system failure, maintenance resources can be prioritized to address the critical components of your system and therefore minimize maintenance costs. Participants will see that by understanding the type of inherent failure modes of your equipment, recommendations can be made to improve preventative maintenance programs, to implement on‐line and off‐line predictive maintenance programs and to eliminate ‘single points of failure’ all of which will contribute to minimizing downtime in the event of an unplanned outage.