Monitor your transformers health with our solutions
Unprecedent visibility of your transformers fleet health
From electrical generation to consumption and across industries and enterprises, transformers’ uptime is fundamental to your business. Implementing real-time monitoring solutions can effectively help reduce unplanned downtime or premature replacement by enabling proactive maintenance and early issue detection.
Simplify the management of your transformers’s fleet with our solutions and get:
- Real-time health monitoring
- Advanced analytics powered by EcoStruxure™ IoT platform
- Automatic interpretation of offline dissolved gas analysis report (DGA) test reports
Automatic interpretation of offline dissolved gas analysis report (DGA) test reports. Start your journey by enjoying a free trial of EcoStruxure Transformer Expert Essential.
Challenges when managing transformers fleet
- 1 out of every 200
Transformers experience a major failure every year. 1
- 80% of
Transformer costs are attributed to active parts, the most common failure area in scrapped transformers.2
- Only 25%
Transformer faults can be detected by offline oil analysis.3
Benefits of transformers monitoring solutions
Monitoring the health of your transformers enables you to prioritize the ones most in need of care across your fleet, allowing you to make data-driven decisions related to maintenance and asset replacement. This simultaneously helps improve the safety of your team and the reliability of your transformers.
Flexible and easy-to-deploy solutions
Easy to install and available in two options: sensors-as-a-service, meaning you perform the monitoring, and integrated into a service plan, in which we monitor for you and provide insights and recommendations.
Risk assessment and life expectancy extension
You’ll get visibility over your transformer's health and operating status, enabling you to continuously measure risk assessment, reducing risk of downtime and extending the life expectancy of your transformer fleet.
Advanced capabilities and predictive maintenance
With insightful dashboards for each transformer, powered by our EcoStruxure IoT platform, you can anticipate potential issues before they occur and improve workforce and CapEx decisions along their lifecycle.
DGA analysis reports available at any time
All oil test reports are archived in the platform and automatically analysed to international standards, so you can check them any time in the Data Hub. You can also upload your existing oil reports and try our advanced analytics.
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Chose the best option for your needs available in 3 options: Essential, All-in-One and Hydrogen Monitoring.Get insights into transformers monitoring solutions
EcoStruxure Transformer Expert helps one of the largest and most respected scientific research centers, CERN, monitor aging transformers to anticipate aging risks and extend life expectancy.
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Sources
1CIGRE TB 642, 2015
2Transformer Reliability Survey – Tutorial of CIGRÉ WG A2.37 IET. 4. 474 - 485. 10.1049/iet-epa.2009.0297.
3IEEE C57.143
What is a transformer monitoring system?
Transformer monitoring solutions are a set of programming monitoring software, sensors, and digital services, used to track the health and performance of transformers. Its goal is to collect data on factors like temperature, oil level, moisture, overheating, vibration, and more. Later, the monitoring system analyzes the data and identifies any potential issues or areas of concern that could impact the transformer's performance. With the use of real-time information on the condition of the transformer, it is possible to avoid earlier replacement of transformers, by optimizing transformer maintenance and increasing the transformers’ uptime and, consequently, reducing the downtime. Using transformer monitoring solutions for such a task helps reduce operational costs and minimize major disruptions.
How can it help your business?
By applying a predictive maintenance strategy, it is possible to significantly reduce downtime, which is of utmost importance for every company. You can schedule the maintenance and repairs in such a way you reduce the risk of large problems and inefficiencies. As a result, you can enjoy improved operational efficiency. Thanks to such thorough and complete transformers fleet health monitoring, you can significantly reduce maintenance costs and at the same time avoid costly replacements. Keeping them in good condition translates into optimal performance and longevity.
What are the features and services our transformer monitoring solution offers?
You can use our Transformer Monitoring solutions depending on your needs and expectations. It is possible to subscribe to a self-monitoring solution through EcoStruxure Transformer Expert for oil transformers. This offer is available in 3 options: Essential, All-in-One, and Hydrogen Monitoring. Plus, in case you have limited resources, you can subscribe to a digital-enabled services plan with advanced condition-based monitoring for transformers and get advanced support from our experts, by signing up for a digital-enabled services plan.