“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” might be a catchy saying, but it can also be a disastrous business policy, as it opens the door to potential shutdowns due to significant and problematic failures in your facility.

ATO prefers a proactive approach. This means conducting regular, systematic monitoring and servicing, assisting with the planning of electrical maintenance, and maintaining automation control systems.

A comprehensive approach consists of several phases.

Existing state

In cooperation with you, an in-depth analysis of the current state of your systems is done, starting with the technical documentation of the electrical part of the plant.

The documentation is systematized, and then a recording of the main low-voltage distribution and sub-distribution of the facility, as well as the main switches on the production lines, is carried out using a thermographic camera.

The result is the creation of baseline documentation for the facility, containing all necessary maintenance data.

If needed, we prepare an urgent list of parts for procurement, as well as a list for gradual procurement of parts that have longer delivery times and could cause a shutdown.

We offer all three types of maintenance:

• Corrective – Repair of the system after a failure occurs. For example, if a frequency converter in the facility fails, diagnostics are performed, followed by replacement or repair. Worker approach.
• Preventive – Care and servicing of the system to maintain its current (functional) state. We conduct periodic condition checks using standardized checklists. This approach can be work-oriented (based on operating hours) or based on regular time intervals. The check intervals are agreed upon and defined through a maintenance plan.
• Condition based maintenance – Monitoring the degradation of system components using diagnostic tools such as thermographic imaging, so that replacement parts can be prepared before a failure occurs, allowing for timely replacement.

All parts and facilities we maintain are systematically recorded in a GIS application, which we use to track the dynamics of maintenance activities.

On-Call Intervention Engineer Available 24/7/365

For our clients managing critical infrastructure, we offer the service of an on-call intervention engineer, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Behind the intervention staff is a whole team of experts who can resolve most issues immediately by remotely connecting to the system where the problem occurred. If remote resolution is not possible due to the nature of the failure, the on-call staff will come to your site immediately, at any time of day or year.

The common goal is to minimize intervention maintenance. Ideally, through a program of regular maintenance, quality training for operational staff, detailed preparation of necessary documentation, implementation of periodic preventive activities, and provision of necessary spare parts, the situations in which you need an on-call engineer should fall below 3% annually.

Through maintenance to rationalization

When an ATO engineer becomes familiar with your system in detail through the previous stages of the maintenance process, he can suggest rationalization measures and actions:

• Energy consumption
• Raw material usage
• Consumption of consumables and spare parts

Recommendations may also focus on improving the quality of final products.