PC based controls and complex electronics are at the heart of the modern factory. This state of the art equipment allows your factory to run faster, smarter, and more efficiently then ever, but an investment in high tech automation is only as good as the infrastructure that supports it.

Machines jam, materials misfeed, the line goes down. What happened? Chances are it was a power blip that caused sensitive automation equipment to stop operating just long enough to bring processes to a grinding halt and cost your company thousands of dollars.

How much unscheduled downtime can you afford this year?

Recent studies have shown that an average of 30% of the total downtime in highly automated production facilities is caused by short duration power disturbances. Further studies show that over 98% of all grid disturbances are less than 2 seconds.

These disturbances can:

Impact complex processes
Damage sensitive electronics
Cost your operation millions of dollars each year

The award-winning I-Grid monitoring system allows you to correlate how these invisible power disturbances impact your critical processes.

What causes these power disturbances?

Lightning
Severe Weather
Animals
Equipment Failures
Human Mishaps
Neighbour Facilities

Do these disturbances affect your facility?
> Chances are they do, and you may not even know it!

How can you find out if sags are affecting your bottom line?
> By installing an award winning SoftSwitching I-Sense real time monitor on the I-Grid network is the least expensive way to see if these short term disturbances are affecting your equipment and causing you expensive unscheduled downtime!

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Real Time Monitoring with I-Sense & I-Grid

Whether you manage one plant or multiple plants around North America, I-Sense monitors can provide the data necessary to understand how power quality directly affects downtime in your company. I-Sense monitors are ultra low cost, easy to use, easy to install and maintenance free. Once they are installed at your facility, they use an internal modem to transmit your power quality data over the Internet back to our centralized web servers. Then, using any computer with an Internet connection, you can view your power quality data anytime, anywhere. You can check out detailed power quality reports for your current location or remote locations without ever leaving your office. Upon receipt of a disturbance, all users assigned to the account are automatically contacted within seconds with details of the event via a text page or e-mail. Because the system is web based, a simple visit to www.igrid.com allows users to view event logs, RMS plots, waveform data, and customized reports in a secure manner with no special software.

The I-Grid Network consists of multiple I-Sense Monitors that are installed at thousands of manufacturing facilities around the world.

Armed with I-SENSE Data, you can:

Monitor incoming three phase voltage to plant
Display RMS voltage, as well as waveform data
Monitor voltage sags, surges, swells, outages and momentary interruptions
Correlate process / equipment downtime with specific power quality events
Identify & specify optimal power solutions to PQ problems actually experienced at your site and regionally
Receive prompt & automatic notification via email or pager of PQ events, including event data and timestamps
Generate summary reports of events recorded by I-Sense monitors
Easily access event logs
Notify multiple personnel of an event within seconds
I-Sense Monitors are designed with simplicity in mind:
Easy to install
Web-based platform ....therefore, no software to purchase, maintain or upgrade!
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Click on the above graph to see a detailed report showing
the power disturbance event in Toronto on Jan 30th 2007.

Click here to see the Hydro One press release on this event

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Protect Your Investment with DySC Battery Free UPS

To protect grid users from widespread outages caused by unpreventable occurances, utility companies have designed in fast acting protective devices that allow the grid to repair itself within fractions of a second. Although these devices protect users from power outages, short term voltage sags become a byproduct of these devices.

The DySC (pronounced 'Disk') is effectively a battery free Uninterruptable Power Supply (UPS) that has a patented designed to ride through these short term disturbances and provide complete protection against the events that happen on the grid and impact your process.
The DySC is the only electronic UPS system that allows automated factories to protect critical processes from voltage sags and momentary outages with no batteries or moving parts!

The DySC is available in almost any size and can provide protection for individual components, critical machines, or entire processes.

MiniDySC for Component Level Protection Single Phase, 100-277 Volts, 1-50 Amps, 250VA - 14kVA Relays Contactors Timers / Counters PLC's and I/O Operator Interface Power Supplies Sensors	MiniDySC
ProDySC for Machine Level Protection Three Phase, 208-480 Volts, 25-50 Amps, 10 - 165kVA Control Panels Robots CNC Machines Servos Pumps Ovens Fillers Dryers Paint Booths	50Amp ProDySC 200Amp ProDySC
MegaDySC for Process Level Protection Three Phase, 480 Volts, 400-2400 Amps, 333kVA - 2MVA Semi Conductor Aseptic Packaging High Speed Bottling Bakeries Paper Production Pharmaceutical Dry Extrusion Paint Processes Web Processes	2000Amp MegaDySC