Power availability and reliability

Discover how you can avoid unplanned downtime

• High-availability reference design for power systems

  Decrease risk and cost by streamlining the design and build phases with productivity-boosting software and proven digital-power system architectures. Our design references to help you comply with local regulations and international standards such as IEC 60947-1, IEC 60947-2, IEC 60364, IEC 60364-5-56 and IEC 62586.

  • Reference design: 11.2MW for colocation application
  • mySchneider Portal: Register to access all other EcoStruxure reference designs
  • Digital application: Design guide for power system infrastructures
• Selectivity (discrimination)

  In a selectively coordinated system, only the circuit breaker that directly supplies the overloaded/faulted part of the system will trip, limiting the service interruption to only the circuit experiencing the problem and not shutting down the larger portion of the power system. Use the latest software to optimise your installation design, calculate and size up your electrical components and select combinations of circuit breakers that provide total selective coordination or optimised selectivity with cascading.

  • Blog: What is selectivity?
  • Blog: Degrees of selectivity
  • Software: EcoStruxure Power Design - calculation tools
  • Blog: Setting the standard for coordination
  • Guide: Complementary technical information 2019 - Selectivity, cascading and coordination
  • Blog: Cascading and backup – why coordination should be compulsory
  • Blog: Optimising installation costs thanks to circuit breaker cascading
• Asset management

  Complete visibility with insights about your electrical system performance enabling downtime prevention with a condition-based approach.

  1) Operational intelligence: Easy-to-use power management software applications designed to help local personnel operate reliably and avoid disruptions.

  2) Preventative maintenance: Maximise time between maintenance and avoid failure events with continuous equipment monitoring, analytics and advisory services to improve power availability and reliability.

  • Blog: Proven technologies exist today to fully digitise your power distribution
  • Blog: 5 ways to fight back against power outage
  • Video: Digital Logbook
  • Blog: How preventive maintenance minimises facility problems and costs
  • Brochure: Digital Logbook
  • Blog: Boost circuit breaker reliability with predictive maintenance
  • Web page: Power quality
  • White paper: Implementing continuous, iterative power quality management
  • Web page: EcoStruxure Power Advisor with power quality diagnostics
  • White paper: Power Management for a changing world
  • White paper: Mitigating risk using power management systems
• Fault localisation, root cause and recovery

  Companies depend on clean, stable and reliable power more than ever before. They expect their electrical systems to be self-healing and self-diagnosing to minimise the impact of faults and understand the root cause. When something out of the ordinary occurs, operators should be notified immediately with diagnostic info about the incident so that they may take decisive action to restore power quickly with minimal downtime.

  • White paper: Power management including power event analysis
  • Video: MasterPact MTZ air circuit breaker power restoration assistant digital module
  • White paper: Safe and reliable critical power distribution
  • Brochure: MasterPact MTZ air circuit breaker power restoration assistant digital module
  • White paper: Transitioning to smart MV/LV substations
  • Web page: Vigilohm insulation monitoring devices for fault detection and location
  • Basic arc fault detection for MV and LV power distribution
  • Video: PowerLogic ION9000 advance power quality meter features disturbance direction detection