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Continuous Thermal Monitoring (CTM) can predict up to 70% more failures in electrical assets than periodic inspection. Thermal sensors help to protect critical electrical infrastructure from expensive failures, reduce costs and unplanned downtime, and increase personnel safety. Add to this the acceleration of IIOT, making condition monitoring sensors essential to the acquisition of data to future-proof your most important asset: power.
Continuous Thermal Monitoring, or CTM, is a leading-edge solution that provides alternatives to infrared (IR) thermography surveys.
CTM is the next technology step from periodic maintenance that is important for implementing condition-based monitoring practices. It is a solution that enables data capture for analysis, allowing trends to inform predictive maintenance, enhance personnel safety and extend critical electrical equipment reliability.
CTM supplements or complements traditional periodic IR imagining surveys and other maintenance practices, enabling electrical maintenance teams to predict failures, safeguard electrical equipment, and optimize performance.
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From the basics to the more advanced, here’s a few questions we get asked a lot. If your question isn’t answered here please contact our sales team.
LV and MV switchboards –key monitoring points using Eaton non-contact passive infrared sensors.
LV cable terminations;
LV MCC : Using the Eaton MCC kit which provides monitoring of incoming + outgoing power terminations fits INSIDE the drawer/ bucket.
Dry Resin Core Transformers using Eaton non contact passive infrared sensors:
LV Power transformers :
Independent research indicates that there will be generic savings of circa 12% on current Opex maintenance costs. In addition, 24×7 condition monitoring will detect approx. 70% more failures in advance of the failure than periodic inspections. This will save on repair and replacement of equipment + associated downtime costs. The combined effect will produce circa 30% overall savings when compared to periodic inspection maintenance regime.
Calculations for typical 10 x switchboards with 5 columns per board indicate total savings of circa $250,000 over lifetime (20yr) of equipment.
There is also the Opportunity cost of not utilising condition monitoring. These include lost opportunity to increase safety by removing people from a place of potential risk to perform inspections.
Perhaps the greatest lost opportunity of not utilising condition monitoring will be the loss of the ability to collect 24x7 data of uniform quality for subsequent analysis to obtain the benefits of IIOT. Every piece of electrical equipment e.g. LV/MV switchboards, MCC, transformers etc which is built without the inclusion of sensors is building in obsolescence.
There are a number of reasons which can be summarised as:
Eaton is a leading provider of 24x7 Thermal Condition Monitoring for electrical infrastructure, successfully installed worldwide by all major OEMs. We deliver complete solutions for LV/MV Switchgear, MCC Drawers, Dry Transformers and more. We’re so proud of our proven reliability we even offer a zero maintenance lifetime guarantee.
Explore key insights and real-world case studies that demonstrate how this technology enhances safety, efficiency, and reliability in various industries.
A rise in temperature is the main symptom of a faulty joint or connection that can result in major power failure in your mission critical environment. Eaton Exertherm Thermal Monitoring enables fault detection and predictive analysis of electrical temperature data 24x7. We provide a complete solution for LV switchgear/MV switchgear, Bus Duct, MCC, Dry Transformers, increasing efficiency and performance of your electrical infrastructure as an integral part of your predictive maintenance plan and IIoT strategy.
We offer CTM for a variety of applications:
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