The field engineering area of SM&A is responsible for serving the customer in their needs for intervention in equipment and systems.
Whether for testing, commissioning a new installation or for preventive and corrective maintenance, the team is prepared and equipped with materials and tools.
Main activities in field engineering
- Commissioning of high, medium and low voltage electrical equipment
- Commissioning of earthing loops
- Soil resistivity measurements
- Diligence and inspections in electrical equipment factory
- Elaboration of operation and maintenance procedures
- Report of losses
- Measurement of electrical quantities (demand, FP, voltage imbalances, harmonics, transients, etc.)
- Parameterization and testing of protection relays
- NR10 reports (learn more)
- Retrofit of protection and control systems
- Supervision of assemblies, startup and assisted operation
- Training in protection, operation and maintenance relays in substations
SM&A has a control system for the calibration and measurement of its instruments in accordance with ISO 9001.
For parameterization, testing and commissioning of equipment and systems, the company has the following instruments:
- Two three-phase power system simulators, type F6150, manufactured by Doble Engineering Company
- Mono, tri and hexaphase, digital and analog Calibration Boxes for testing protection relays
- Energy Analyzers | Instrument for measuring electrical quantities and power quality
- Megometers (10kVcc and 5kVcc) | Insulation Resistance Testing Instruments
- MH and MEU | Insulation Power Factor Meters
- Digital Thermometers | Instruments for measuring continuity between grids, overall grid resistance and soil resistivity
- Digital Pliers Terrometer | Instrument for measuring earth resistance
- Digital Microhmmeter 10 and 100A | Instrument for measuring contact resistance and ohmic resistance of coils
- Circuit Breaker Oscillograph | Oscillography meter for checking the time of openings, closings, cycles and concurrency
- Hi-pots (60kVcc and 10kVca) | Instrument for applied voltage testing
- TTR | Spiral Ratio Test
- UAV (Drone)| SPDA inspection
- Fluke Multimeters | CAT IV
