Why maintain electrical distribution equipment?
Carrying out field maintenance on electrical distribution equipment provides four important benefits.
1. Increased safety: protecting people, equipment and goods One of a plant manager’s most crucial responsibilities is to ensure the sustainable development of their business. Plant managers are obligated to adopt all available measures technically and economically available to them to minimize the risk of unwanted events, such as those that harm personnel, assets, or the business, while following international standards for environment, health, and safety. Some electrical distribution equipment is designed to minimize the risk and severity of accidents or process breakdowns, such as circuit breakers, fuse-contactors, etc. The highest priority of maintenance is to ensure that role is performed.
2. Availability enhancement: maximizing service continuity Maintenance maximizes uptime. Maintenance is commonly conducted on scheduled outages during off-peak business periods, thereby mitigating its impact on operations with less disruption to activities, and less stress is generated. It takes less time to perform proactive maintenance than emergency repair (immediate corrective), while mitigating the risk of emergency shutdown, where the consequences of even an hour-long production shutdown can be enormous.