Bowtie Engineering BBB Business Review

Testimonials

It is a pleasure to recommend Bowtie Engineering as a multi-discipline engineering and consulting firm. In my capacity, we are always challenged with continuously improving safety and health for our internal and external customers. When we interviewed Bowtie years ago, their knowledge of electrical safety was miles ahead of others we interviewed. We engaged and had Bowtie perform for us both Engineering Incident Energy and Electrical Maintenance & Testing. Their model allowed them to perform with their standardized process at over 300 of our facilities. They completed way ahead of schedule and way under budget.

We continue experiencing an enjoyable relationship with their maintenance division. Bowtie always over-communicates and is always there to answer questions even when outside of scope. We really appreciate knowing that we are in good hands when they are on our property. Our business is always chasing technology, and our electrical system often needs to be upgraded or equipment moved. Bowtie has a unique process, which is very cost-effective, and we really like having them close for consulting or solving complex electrical needs. It saves us money.

I strongly recommend Bowtie Engineering.
Randy Lechner
Midcontinent Communications Sr. Safety Manager
I have worked with Bowtie for several years, and at several of our facilities for both Engineering (arc flash) and Electrical Maintenance Services. My experience doing business with them is very enjoyable. Their employees are system planners, with safety always being the first conversation.

Everyone in our corporate engineering department experiences their passion for starting projects strong, and finishing even stronger. Bowtie approaches our work with care and they doesn’t lift the throttle until expectations are met. I would not hesitate to recommend Bowtie Engineering to anyone requiring their services. We continue experiencing an enjoyable relationship with their maintenance division. Bowtie always over-communicates and is always there to answer questions even when outside of scope. We really appreciate knowing that we are in good hands when they are on our property. Our business is always chasing technology, and our electrical system often needs to be upgraded or equipment moved. Bowtie has a unique process, which is very cost-effective, and we really like having them close for consulting or solving complex electrical needs. It saves us money.

I strongly recommend Bowtie Engineering.
David B Johnson
Sr. Staff Engineer Shaw Floors Inc. Corporate Engineering Division
I have worked with Bowtie Engineering on several projects for many years. Their staff is excellent, and they are solid engineering leaders. I am confident in their work. Their work is performed with minimal Wika supervision and is of great quality. I have known Bowtie's CEO now upwards of 10 years, and John is very accommodating, and he knows his profession.

I have worked with other companies in the past and Bowtie has been the most reliable for our Electrical needs. We use their BowVue Portal for our asset inventories and our safety program, which has made this work a lot easier for us. It puts all the info we need at our fingertips, and it is saving us time and money.

I highly recommend Bowtie Engineering, let them introduce you to their software portal, it will help operations staff keep their thumb on the hazardous work.
Peter Braun
Wika Maintenance Manager Lawrenceville GA
It is my pleasure to recommend Bowtie Engineering LLC. I have worked with Bowtie for several years and with several clients in both an Engineering capacity and Electrical Maintenance Services. At ISS, I head up teams, internal and external, to perform in global markets. We continually test Bowtie’s managed network to meet the ever-changing demands of our clients and our scope. They continue to be forthcoming with information and support for us and our clients. They perform risk registers and assessments around their solutions and provide transparency that typically we don’t see from other vendors.

Their leadership knows how to shred a project scope down to understand the risks and then build cost-effective solutions based on customers’ needs, which protects everyone. All their staff are electrical safety experts, and they are always educating all involved. They treat customers' money, time, and resources as if they were Bowtie’s. Bowtie’s professional relationships are often the foundation upon which trust and advocacy are built for our larger clients, which delivers results. .
John Thomas
ISS VP-Global Accounts Atlanta GA

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.

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.

  • On-Site data collection
  • Engineering Analysis (SKM, EasyPower, ETap)
  • Installation of Incident Energy Labels
  • Delivery of report with electrical one-lines
  • BowVue Training
  • Electrical Safety NFPA 70E training

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.