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Proper maintenance and testing of electrical power systems should ensure a smooth operation and a long service life of the equipment. The following factors play a decisive role in the effectiveness and efficiency of such testing and maintenance tasks:
- Identifying proper scheduling cycles
- Selecting ideally suited testing equipment, with focus on automated testing
- Clear provision of test-related information for the tester
- Releasing the tester from written and administrative tasks
- Managing results for analyses, condition assessments and reports
Test and asset management tools can make an important contribution to the optimization of testing and maintenance tasks. However, their success is dependent on several critical factors: the utilization of the management tools in the substation or plant, the degree of acceptance of the tools by the tester, the availability of powerful interfaces for the testing devices, and integration throughout the company.
Test management for primary equipment
Many innovative and profitable energy supply companies have long relied on the support of powerful software packages in the field of testing management. There are numerous reasons for this.
Test management for protection and measurement systems
As protection devices become increasingly complex and powerful and innovation cycles shorten, testing challenges increase exponentially. These changes make testing and maintenance work progressively more difficult. More and more companies are therefore opting for specialized testing and asset management software – with motivation coming from a whole range of different factors.
Protective device management
Management programs for electrical assets, also referred to as Enterprise Resource Planning Systems, are used in almost all energy supply companies. So why is another protective device management tool required?
Asset life-cycle management
The longest possible cost-optimized service life of the power system with no unscheduled outages – these are the tasks of asset lifecycle management. From a technical point of view, the planning of tests and other maintenance measures as well as the technical condition assessment of important devices is of utmost importance.