How can Preventative Maintenance help you?

We have extensive professional experience in the design, installation, predictive and preventative maintenance, and repair of commercial and industrial electrical distribution systems. Our customer's costs are lower because we use only certified, licensed, and experienced electricians who bring one-stop, full service capabilities to every customer.

Preventative Maintenance allows your company to have the peace of mind that your electrical equipment is going to continue to run without fail for as long as you use our service. This means no downtime waiting on an electrical outage to be repaired. Our technicians put their guarantee on it.

What Services Does This Include?

• IR Infrared Video Thermography - This service is a comprehensive scan of your electrical distribution system, including panels, switchboards, motor control centers, and motors. Thermography is utilized to identify systems that are running above normal temperature. This is important as it will allow us to identify and repair a problem before it results in a major and costly failure.

• Ultrasonic Testing - This service utilizes test equipment that will allow us to hear sub-sonic activities and events that cannot normally be heard with the bare ear. It allows us to hear anomalies such as arcing, tracing, corona and other internal destructive events in circuit breakers and other components.

• Power Quality Analysis - This equipment and testing is designed to identify problems that are outside the customers system , such as utility company problems. This equipment can typically identify problems such as: power factor problems, harmonic distortion, voltage and current distortion as well as phase imbalance and loading problems. Once the problems are identified, we can recommend various solutions such as power factor correction equipment, harmonic filters, high resistance grounding, plus many others.

• Preventative Maintenance Services - This service includes comprehensive servicing of the customer's electrical distribution systems that can include cleaning, exercising, millivolt drop testing, IR scan, and checking terminations. We can also do oil type transformer testing.

• Arc Flash Service - We can provide arc surveys, equipment and training, everything our customer's will require to be OSHA and NFPA 70E compliant.

Why Should I Be Concerned About Arc Flash?

OSHA has adopted NFPA 70E, published on February 14, 2007 and became effective on August 13, 2007. This standard superseded all previous electrical safety standards in both general and construction industries.

An ARC Flash is a very dangerous condition that occurs when a short circuit (fault) situation occurs. Either by accident or equipment failure and depending on conditions, incident energy released can cause second or third degree burns, blindness as well as many other numerous injuries. This standard is designed to protect workers from Arc Flash or Arc blast injuries. Its intent is designed to apply to anyone who works on energized electrical equipment. The article is also designed to properly inform employers and workers of the proper protection equipment that must be worn and utilized as well as equipment labeling that will indicate the equipment potential energy release, the level of protection required and approach limitations.

Studebaker Electric Company is your authorized service provider for the Dayton and Cincinnati area. Studebaker Electric Company has been leading our industry in ARC Flash assessments, engineering, training, and personal protection equipment. Please call us for all your ARC Flash compliance needs. Should you have any questions, please feel free to call us for these or any other electrical services.