BowVue is a portal that we patented over 5 years ago which provides the necessary visibility into your electrical specific needs for performing your required electrical risk assessments. It simplifies PPE selection, visibility of your condition of maintenance and also, the job titles you have that are deemed qualified at the asset level. One-lines, maintenance reports, IR, incident energy reports all in one place too. This solves the top 3 problems causing injury from electricity. 1. PPE, 2. Worker not qualified, 3. Equipment failure.
An electrical risk assessment identifies the shock and arc flash hazards. It is also codified into law with OSHA and the steps necessary can be found in your latest version of NFPA 70E. The intent is to make sure the qualified worker running the job has everything he/she needs to mitigate the risk of injury, when justified energized work is necessary.
We provide a wide range of electrical services, beginning with Electrical Engineering studies (arc flash) backed up with dedicated NFPA 70E instructors training and building ESP programs that work. Safety is what started Bowtie in 2015. Quickly we took these tools and implemented them in our Electrical Maintenance and NETA testing group which includes simple IR thermography all the way up to complex primary injection testing of medium voltage switchgear. Energy Solutions group focuses on conservation with sub-metering solutions and programs such as installation of EV charging systems. Lastly we are considered industry leaders designing power systems for the Crypto Mining technology ensuring a more safe and reliable system with cost benefit, always staying 8 steps in front of the competitors with technology enabled solutions.
Workers should be trained according to NFPA 70E standards, expert in understand electrical hazards, and be capable of planning the safe work conditions. Certifications and ongoing education are a piece to maintaining compliance with safety practices, however, specific task based experience is critical to answer this question. Every maintenance worker shall have been through an Electrical Safety- NFPA 70E classroom training at every 3 years minimum.
We follow a systems approach to maintenance. We absolutely want to understand your equipment and the maintenance performed to date to find what has not been performed within industry best practices. We are Engineers with an eye on complexity different from our competitors. We can solve any program before it because of an outage or a safety issue. It might start with commodity work such as Infrared Thermography and reporting but we have engineers that evaluate the report and go from there into de-energized testing and cleaning. We look at system loads, balancing, harmonics, all are anomalies that stress the system and are typically overlooked by others. That's what we do that makes us different. What makes us unique is running BowVue behind the scene with the data to support a safer day to day work environment.
LOTO procedures should be your #1 decision when performing electrical work (shut the power off). Your staff should be experts by now in LOTO, since it has been implemented as a requirement since the 1970s. What's really important is getting all 8 steps fluent in your qualified workers so it's as natural to them as any other task.
BowVue enhances compliance by linking job titles with shock and arc risks and maintaining updated records that makes your evaluating process not only faster and easier, but no reason to skip steps and take on risk. We provide a Free demo virtually too. In addition if we have a service contract with your company, BowVue is also free for you and your team to use.
Infrared thermography helps identify 'hot spots' and potential failures in electrical systems before they result in costly downtime or hazards. Its the first basic step in electrical maintenance scope of work. Its performed with your building in service, so no disruption of power. When Bowtie performs IR, what makes us different is you will also get a report of any/all code violations we find while the covers our open. This gives you time to do repairs before they become outages. No extra charge and everything is documented with technology enabled vision and BowVue.
The process includes identifying potential hazards, evaluating risk levels, and implementing necessary safety controls to mitigate those risks.
Bowtie Engineering's Energy Solutions improve overall energy efficiency, helping businesses reduce operational costs, enhance sustainability, and comply with energy regulations. Any time the C-Suite executives can perform the same task at less cost, that profit goes right to the bottom of the balance sheet. Any time a piece of equipment is running more efficiently one can see how the lifecycle of the equipment will be longer, with less down time and less spending on capital equipment.
