An annual thermography survey of the electrical
switch gear revealed a hot connection within an electrical
breaker that supplied a critical motor on the mill processing
line. At first, our thermographer learned that the line could
not be taken down to replace the faulty breaker even though a
spare was on the premises. However, the mechanical crew was
planning to shut down the line for half a shift in several
days. This scheduled shutdown allowed the electrical crew to
replace the faulty electrical breaker during the outage, thus
avoiding a second shutdown, which would have resulted in
thousands of dollars of lost production and
wages.
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