Industrial Electrical Testing - "Experts at Electrical Power Systems"
 Substation Services
Substation MaintenanceIndustrial Tests, Inc. helps substation owners enhance safety, reliability, equipment life, and performance despite shrinking maintenance budgets.  We offer a complete portfolio of the latest tools and test equipment, technologies, and resources to improve transformer and circuit breaker life management; extend equipment life; optimize maintenance to cut costs and reduce outages; enhance SF6 management; and improve switching safety, fault current management, and grounding.
 
                                       Customer  Needs and Safety Issues
High Voltage Substation
  • Ensuring safety of personnel, general public, and equipment during operations and outages.
  • Enhancing system reliability, performance, and life of equipment on ever-decreasing maintenance budgets.
  • Providing advanced technologies and tools to maintain and operate substation equipment in an increasingly competitive marketplace.
 
 
Impact of Substation Maintenance Program
Substation Testing
  • Extend equipment life by 5-10 years with maintenance guidelines.
  • Reduce maintenance costs by up to 30% via condition-based maintenance.
  • Reduce losses via improved SF6 management and transformer cooling.
  • Implement predictive maintenance practices for reduced outages.
  • Prevent failure of critical transformers, realizing potential savings per unit of $1-5 million.
 
                                                   Key Customer Benefit
Substation Service
  • Customized computerized database and stand-alone maintenance guide, providing customer's engineers and maintenance crews with up-to-date knowledge, test data, procedures, and best practices for substation equipment maintenance, condition assessment, and life extension.
 
  • Transformer Oil Analysis to assist non-experts in determining transformer and component conditions. 
  • Maintenance best practice guidelines.
  • Life-extension guidelines.
  • Circuit breaker life management and lubrication.
  • Upgrade of Load Tap Changer protection and controls.
  • Protection and metering for circuit breaker diagnostics.
  • Switching safety and reliability.
 
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