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Commissioning & Reliability

Tapchangers: The Fundamentals

Dr Jonathan Hiscock, managing director of Fundamentals Ltd gives us an insight into why tapchangers are so important in the power grid, how their performance can be enhanced, their reliability extended and what to expect if they’re not properly maintained.

12 March, 2019
Grid & Connections

The cold facts

11 March, 2019
Commissioning & Reliability

Intelligent buildings: Building better 

Pradyumna Pandit, VP of EcoBuilding UK and Ireland at Schneider Electric, explores the role intelligent buildings have to play in contributing to a smarter, more sustainable future.

11 March, 2019
Commissioning & Reliability

Finding fault

Within any organisation, a defective electrical cable has the power to cause significant disruption to operations, making detecting and resolving these problems crucial – especially when high voltages are involved. Craig Collinson, operations director at Smith Brothers, explores the methods and expertise required in specialist cable fault testing.

11 March, 2019
Commissioning & Reliability

Digital disruption increases need for fibre

Dr. Rick Pimpinella, Panduit fellow, Panduit Corporation discusses why our penchant for data means the need for multimode fibre in the data centre is now more prevalent than ever.

7 February, 2019
Commissioning & Reliability

IT innovation: Paving the road to self-driving cars

Jack Pouchet, vice president, Market Development, Vertiv and Jodie Bare, deputy program manager, Smart Columbus, explore why the change to transport as we know it may well be imminent.

6 February, 2019
Commissioning & Reliability

Battling the breach

In this exclusive Q&A Daryl Crockett, CEO and founder Valid Datum discusses the nefarious nature of the modern-day hacker, what our rights really are when it comes to GDPR and explains why something called ‘micro-tokenisation’ might well be the key to keeping breaches at bay.

6 February, 2019
Commissioning & Reliability

DCIM: Secrets to success

Darren Watkins, managing director of Virtus Data Centres analyses the struggles and successes of Data Centre Infrastructure Management and takes a look at what makes an ideal DCIM strategy.

6 February, 2019
Commissioning & Reliability

Primary protection

When you need to test a relay protection system, particularly during commissioning, you need to decide early on whether to use primary or secondary injection. Both approaches have their merits, yet according to Marius Averitai of Megger, there are many cases where primary injection has the edge.

6 February, 2019
Storage & Resilience

UP(SOS)

Alex Emms, operations director at Uninterruptible Power Supplies Ltd. explains the untapped potential of your UPS system, during mains presence, as well as in blackouts, and outlines the importance of selecting on-line systems.

5 February, 2019