Ensuring high power quality is a major consideration for industrial facilities seeking to optimize efficiency and minimize costs. Factors like higher non-leaner load pattern, incorrect grounding techniques, unbalanced loads, and inadequately protected equipment can often introduce electrical noise throughout a system and compromise the overall quality of power. As modern power systems place increasing demands on control, monitoring, and operation, proactively monitoring power quality has become a standard practice for Industries. Identifying issues that negatively impact power quality through consistent monitoring can help pinpoint areas of opportunities for performance enhancement. Maintaining optimal power quality levels significantly improves productivity and reduces downtime across industrial operations.

Power quality analysis provides several benefits for maintenance and monitoring of electrical systems. It helps to facilitate preventative maintenance by identifying the source and frequency of power quality events. This allows for the development of maintenance schedules based on trended data. The system can monitor conditions over time and analyze disturbances such as swell, deep, harmonics, voltage variations, and transient frequency changes. Power quality analysis also helps ensure equipment performance by assessing the sensitivity of process equipment to power disturbances. Installations can evaluate how well the system meets design specifications by measuring deviations from standard power quality parameters. Overall, these advantages of power quality monitoring aid in proactive upkeep of electrical infrastructure and protection of sensitive equipment.