Services
Power systems specialists
Our time-served, experienced electrical engineers utilise industry leading modelling software to offer fully certified electrical power network design and analysis. Specifically:
- Single Line Diagrams
- Creation and analysis of power scenarios and power flow studies
- Comprehensive protective device coordination
- Compliance to IEC, AS/NZS standards and regulations
- Short circuit and dynamic fault scenarios
- Arc Flash risk assessments
- In depth, Harmonic and Power Quality impact evaluations
- Integrated “real” field asset data
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Asset infrastructure appraisals
Having a well-rounded maintenance engineering background, our team can accurately assess reliability and safety risks surrounding your heavy industrial electrical assets including:
- High Voltage and Low Voltage switchgear
- Transformers
- Electrical rotating machines
- Control systems
We can provide comprehensive electrical asset assessments, considering age, duty cycle, product lifecycle, environment and maintenance history and activities; then through consultation, we will clearly define operational risk and provide practical risk mitigation strategies and solutions, balancing operational costs against capital investment.
Project feasibility studies
Does your business have a challenging capital project pipeline? VIR Consultancy has the expertise and capability in providing cost certainty for your capital project needs. Having supported and delivered multi-million dollar projects in multiple industrial situations, we can provide the electrical engineering knowledge and support to accurately define cost, time and resourcing.
Our capabilities cover:
- Feasibility studies and project viability assessments
- Detailed specification documentation for tendering purposes
- Factory and site acceptance testing support
- Comprehensive expert commissioning
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HV and LV engineering expertise
When it comes to High Voltage (HV) and Low Voltage (LV) assemblies and arrangements, we at VIR Consultancy have a comprehensive understanding of the requirements for design, specification, functional operation, standards and regulations that surround these systems.
Our system analysis services covers the following:
- High Voltage/Medium Voltage Switchgear
- Photovoltaic Arrays and DC grids
- Power and Distribution Transformers
- Low Voltage Switchgear and Switchboards
- Motor Control
- Power Quality Solutions
Foundational to this service is ensuring that safety regulatory legislation is understood, documented, and applied to all aspects of this area of electrical engineering. Ultimately, we will support your business to provide the reassurance and peace of mind that we will manage the complexity of these systems, so you do not need to.
Machine safety and compliance assessments
Functional machine safety is a very complex, challenging topic. Machine safety surrounds fully understanding the health and safety risks when there is interaction between humans and energised machinery and equipment that has the potential to cause harm or injury. Safety by design can be an expensive capital investment, but not as expensive as serious harm incidents. That is, the costs associated with prosecution, prohibition of operations, asset damage, damage to reputation and the management cost of incident investigation. VIR Consultancy is able to facilitate Functional Safety Operational Risk Assessment workshops to quantify risk for your manufacturing businesses. We then offer industry recognised, safety design processes with a comprehensive safety validation and commissioning service. VIR Consultancy has successfully implemented a number of cutting-edge functional safety solutions in the wood products industry that allowed operators and maintenance staff to regularly interact with high-speed wood processing machines safely and efficiently. Effectively automated safety systems that eliminate the potential for machinery and processes to cause harm whilst optimising manufacturing availability.
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certified electrical design
In compliance with the Electricity (Safety) Regulations 2010; regulations 14 and 58: A design may be certified and may be relied upon for installations work (Regulation 58).Electricity regulations specifically mandate certified designs for high voltage installations and any installation being installed in accordance with Part 1 of AS/NZS3000.
The establishment of the design can be made by:
- an engineer
- an electrician who will construct the installation
- an electrician independent from the construction
- a person deemed competent
VIR Consultancy as experienced electrical engineers provide certified design services.
hazardous areas
VIR Consultancy offers a complete service from hazardous area classification, through system design, installation monitoring, to producing verification dossiers and attendance at the independent inspection.As experts in the field of hazardous area standards, we are qualified to perform a host of services, all designed to help you comply with the appropriate equipment standards including the AS/NZS 60079 series, the IEC 60079 series & other Australian and International Standards.
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