| "Our Systems Engineering Group consults with the world's leading power distribution companies on solutions to their reliability problems. REASON Technology is the only root cause analysis system that produces the level of accuracy and reliability with which we feel comfortable when dealing with critical service, reliability and loss-risk issues for our clients. -
Mr. James D. Foster P.E. Chairman/Power Systems Project Engineer Cooper Power Systems
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With the only research and development lab in the industry named after the prodigious inventor, The Thomas A. Edison Technical Center, Cooper Power Systems, a division of Cooper Industries, proudly traces its heritage back to the industry's pioneer. The company makes medium and high voltage electrical equipment, components and systems that help bring electric power to homes, industries, businesses and institutions throughout the world. Cooper's Systems Engineering Group is a source of expertise for resolution of reliability issues in the power distribution industry, providing testing, consulting services and engineering services, including a series of workshops for electrical power and consulting engineers taught by experts and practicing engineers with years of field experience, as well as formal training and advanced electrical degrees.
When Cooper Power Systems' engineering experts recognized the growing need for a reliable root cause analysis system in the power industry, they studied available problem-solving technologies and systems. Their goal was to find a methodology and system upon which critical issues impacting the availability of electrical energy to the country could be based. In the equation were national defense issues, emergency medical issues, industrial issues, transportation and public service issues. The root cause analysis system they sought had to be accurate, reliable, practical in the field, and fast. They determined that only REASON met their exacting criteria.
Since that time, Cooper Power Systems and Decision Systems have teamed to offer root cause analysis workshops for the power industry, and to form an emergency response force to attack and solve critical and crisis-situation problems in the power distribution industry. When this country's major power distribution grids with their hundreds of power distribution member companies face the threat of outages, you can expect REASON to be on the job, uncovering systemic root causes and their solutions.
Mr. Art Giardino, Manager-Transmission Compliance and Assurance for PSE&G, Newark, NJ cites four key factors in PSE&G's decision to adopt the REASON Root Cause Analysis process: cost associated with service disruptions, regulatory overview by FERC and other outside agencies, potential negative publicity resulting from high visibility equipment failures, and the importance to ongoing reliability improvement activities of finding and removing systemic causes of problems. "A disciplined root cause process takes the investigation beyond the first causal factor identified, and addresses factors which would have otherwise gone undetected.
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