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Industry Applications

Hospital & Emergency     ...details With the rapid advance in medical technology, hospitals, medical clinics and laboratories increasingly rely on sophisticated electronic devices for diagnosis, treatment and monitoring. This reliance, in turn, demands a high degree of power quality and reliability to prevent disruption of mission-critical operations and procedures. Power quality disturbances can be caused by a range of internal and external phenomena and often re-occur because the location and nature of the event is not well understood or identified. Power monitoring can detect deterioration in power quality before power infrastructure or other equipment problems arise.

Telecommunications     ...details Just as the digital economy is redefining business operations, it is setting new standards for electric power reliability and quality. Downtime—undesirable for any business—is catastrophic for telecommunications centers, where even the smallest interruption or power quality event can cause equipment failure, data loss and lost revenue. This is especially true for telecommunications centers, where communications and connectivity are essential elements of our daily lives. Using power monitoring instrumentation, telecommunications facilities can dramatically improve the performance of their power systems infrastructure.

Manufacturing     ...details Depending upon the industry and facility, energy is one of a manufacturing plant’s most significant budget items. Experience tells us that a typical manufacturing plant can save from 10 percent to as much as 40 percent annually on energy costs by implementing a comprehensive energy action plan. Plus, power quality disturbances, whether delivered by the utility or internally generated by equipment such as adjustable speed drives or motor starts, can result in downtime, scrapped product, and lost revenue. Power monitoring can detect deterioration in power quality before equipment problems arise, while simultaneously supporting an energy cost savings program.

Semiconductor     ...details Semiconductor manufacturing is one of the most complex manufacturing processes in the world. It is also one on the most productive, with 60 million transmitters for every worldwide person being produced each year. The semiconductor manufacturing process is extremely susceptible to power quality events, especially sags, surges and overvoltage/undervoltage events. These events can impact product quality, resulting in scrapped product and sizeable revenue loss. The semiconductor industry was one of the first to recognize these impacts and employ power monitoring to minimize damage.