Reduce Protection Testing Time with the Power of Automation

December 1, 2021 | Australia | 1pm AEDT  | 1hr 30 | Virtual

In order to ensure that power assets in a substation are protected whenever faults occur, it is necessary to thoroughly test the protection systems during commissioning and maintenance. When it comes to protection testing, manual tasks like preparation, configuration, and rewiring during the test runs are still a major part of a protection testing engineer’s daily routine. Not only are these tasks very time consuming, but all these manual interventions have another implication that both utilities and service providers strive to avoid: low quality testing. One mistake during those manual testing procedures can lead to an entirely false assessment. Even if the protection engineers notice the error they have to repeat the test steps in question, which in turn can put them under pressure and decrease efficiency.

What is your procedure for protection testing?

If you are testing secondary systems and you have an understanding of the test values (relative to settings / nominal values) and tolerances you wish to apply, then there is no benefit in repeatedly entering these details for every test module that you create, rather it is just an opportunity for an unintended error to be added.

Automatic testing procedures can reduce manual intervention significantly and they standardize the testing process itself, resulting in less testing time, one-to-one repeatability, and a much higher level of overall quality. But how much time can actually be saved with automatic testing procedures? How can that be measured? And is it really impacting the quality of the tests?

If you wish to save time and errors on your test setup and find out how you can save costs and optimize your secondary system testing join us.

We look forward to your participation!