Data Center Solutions

Project and commissioning services

1. Commissioning

Vertiv experienced commissioners maximize your return by delivering improved availability, enhanced safety, increased efficiency, and reduced operational costs.

2. Acceptance testing

Nearly 70 percent of early equipment failures can be traced to design, installation or startup deficiencies. That's why it's so important to protect your plant’s investment in new equipment or systems with acceptance testing. This check of electrical power systems and components after startup uncovers and corrects problems that would otherwise lead to larger, costly issues in the future.

3. Distribution assurance package

Even when your IT staff is working at capacity, there’s no need to leave business-critical power unmanaged. By combining leading rack PDU technology, expert service and support, and a five-year protection plan, you’ll know your data center has the power it needs to support business-critical applications.

4. Project management

Critical facility infrastructure projects are nothing if not complex. From planning and design through system installation and startup, managing the countless aspects of complex projects demands focus and expertise. To ensure the success of your infrastructure project, trust Vertiv to provide comprehensive project delivery services throughout the project life cycle.

5. Installation services

Design and installation errors can impact data center infrastructure projects by adding days, weeks, or even months to a schedule. These errors can also have lasting effects on your critical facility’s operation. Proper installation is paramount to system reliability and requires expertise on both the equipment and proper safety procedures.

Preventive and maintenance

1. Integrated switchgear services

During an interruption to your primary power supply, you rely on your UPS to maintain power to critical equipment and systems. But that plan only works if your integrated switchgear successfully transfers the load. Vertiv’s integrated switchgear services ensure the proper installation, operation, and maintenance of switchgear components so your electrical infrastructure supports high availability of your data center.

This check of electrical power systems and components after startup uncovers and corrects problems that would otherwise lead to larger, costly issues in the future.

2. Liebert UPS preventive maintenance

Vertiv Liebert UPS units are designed for reliability, but they do contain components that must be proactively serviced to ensure proper functionality if needed.

By combining leading rack PDU technology, expert service and support, and a five-year protection plan, you’ll know your data center has the power it needs to support business-critical applications.

3. Thermal preventive maintenance

Thermal management equipment is designed to meet the needs of dynamic heat loads in your data center. Boost system performance and avert potentially costly problems by implementing a preventive maintenance program. Properly trained technicians, following manufacturer recommendations and using OEM parts can have a profound effect on your equipment’s performance and your data center’s availability.

4. Battery preventive maintenance for data centers

Arguably the weakest links in the power chain, batteries are a leading root cause of data center downtime. A single bad cell in a string can put your entire backup power system at risk. Increase your battery availability by implementing a battery maintenance program that identifies system anomalies and trends end-of-life to help you make informed decisions.

5. Battery service with integrated monitoring

Your UPS system relies on fully functioning batteries. Knowing when UPS battery failure is imminent allows you to repair or replace in order to avoid costly downtime. The only way to gain this knowledge is through continuous monitoring of your batteries. By combining regular, on-site battery service with remote monitoring and maintenance, you can significantly improve system availability through early detection of potential problems, and rapid response to battery defects and degradation.

Preventive maintenance for industrial

1. Battery preventive maintenance for industrial applications

Batteries are considered the most critical, yet vulnerable component of the emergency power system. In fact, battery failures are one of the leading root causes of load loss. A comprehensive preventive maintenance program for your emergency power system’s batteries is one of the most cost-effective measures you can take to ensure system reliability and prevent costly downtime.

2. Chloride UPS preventive maintenance

The industrial UPS is the foundation of your emergency power system, protecting critical processes, as well as control and safety systems. Downtime is not an option. While Chloride UPS units are designed for reliability, they do contain life-limited components that must be proactively serviced to ensure your UPS will work properly when it is needed. Having a preventive maintenance program delivered by industry leaders is the single most important step you can take to maximize UPS availability.

3. Ground testing service

Grounding of electrical equipment protects your personnel and equipment from over-voltages, faults, and lightning. It ensures system voltage stability by providing a solid reference to earth. Grounding also establishes a reference to control electrical noise that can interfere with proper operation of your electrical equipment. Periodic testing to verify grounding system integrity is essential for safeguarding your operations and overall business.

Infrared (IR) inspections identify these abnormal thermal rises in electrical and mechanical equipment before they cause an unplanned outage.

4. Infrared services

Most electrical equipment generates heat during normal operations. Usually, this heat is safely dissipated on its own. However, problems can develop when components generate excessive heat due to corrosion, loose connections, or overload. Infrared (IR) inspections identify these abnormal thermal rises in electrical and mechanical equipment before they cause an unplanned outage.

Servicing protective relays per manufacturer and NETA recommendations ensures they work properly to prevent injury or extensive damage to your plant during an electrical distribution abnormality.

5. Protective relay maintenance and testing

In its 30-plus year lifespan, a protective relay may only need to operate for a fraction of a second. But when it's needed, it has to perform. Servicing protective relays per manufacturer and NETA recommendations ensures they work properly to prevent injury or extensive damage to your plant during an electrical distribution abnormality.

Part of ensuring a successful turnaround is controlling the time and cost associated with the outage, while making sure your assets get the service needed to continue performing safely and reliably.

6. Smart Turnarounds™ and outage services

Plant turnarounds constitute your single largest maintenance expense. Part of ensuring a successful turnaround is controlling the time and cost associated with the outage, while making sure your assets get the service needed to continue performing safely and reliably. Smart Turnarounds and outage services can help you make the most of planned maintenance time.

Regular preventive maintenance ensures that your switches are ready to perform when necessary.

7. Switches preventive maintenance

Automatic transfer switches are a great solution during fault or outage situations, seamlessly shifting loads from normal supply to standby power. Regular preventive maintenance ensures that your switches are ready to perform when necessary. With regular inspection and testing, you can avoid switch malfunction that can be detrimental to property, profits and personnel.

Electrical engineering services

1. Arc flash studies

An up-to-date arc flash study helps mitigate hazards of injury and death by calculating the limited and restricted approach boundaries inside which workers must use appropriate personal protective equipment.

Keeping your single-line diagram up to date provides a road map that enables proper protection and system reliability, and is necessary for NFPA 70E compliance.

2. Single-line diagrams

If your facility is like most, equipment and loads are continually added or removed in small increments, constantly changing your electrical infrastructure. The impact of these changes is not always apparent until some part of the system becomes overloaded or exhibits other problems. Keeping your single-line diagram up to date provides a road map that enables proper protection and system reliability, and is necessary for NFPA 70E compliance.

Testing it is not only prudent, it is required by the National Electrical Code. Grounding studies ensure protection from low-level arcing ground faults that can destroy your switchgear in seconds and put personnel in danger.

3. Grounding studies

A grounding system is one of the most important, yet neglected, segments of a critical facility’s electrical power system. Testing it is not only prudent, it is required by the National Electrical Code. Grounding studies ensure protection from low-level arcing ground faults that can destroy your switchgear in seconds and put personnel in danger. Vertiv’s grounding studies include the required tests and inspections needed to verify your system’s integrity.

4. Load flow studies

Ensuring your power system is adequately designed to satisfy your performance criteria often requires engineering services like a load flow study. Load flow studies identify and correct power system issues, such as overloads, load imbalance, harmonic problems, poor power factor or other operational issues.

5. Partial discharge testing

When an electrical failure happens, the results can be catastrophic. Most electrical failures occur because of insulation breakdown due to small electrical sparks known as partial discharge. Vertiv’s partial discharge (PD) testing and monitoring provide early warning of impending failure. Through data collection and analysis you are able to make strategic decisions about repairing or replacing your electrical equipment.

6. Partial discharge testing for cables

Partial discharge (PD) testing provides critical information about the quality of cable insulation and its impact on your critical facility. If your medium- and high-voltage cable system has voids, gaps, or other defects, it’s vulnerable to PD. Left unchecked, these small electrical sparks can erode the insulation, eventually leading to unplanned outages. PD testing for cables helps you prioritize your maintenance resources and repair or replace cables before this failure occurs.

7. Partial discharge testing for switchgear

Partial discharge (PD) testing provides critical information about the quality of switchgear and its impact on your critical facility. Your medium-voltage switchgear is vulnerable to PD if it has voids, gaps, or other defects. PD can also occur on the surface of insulators. Left unchecked, these small electrical sparks erode insulation and lead to unplanned outages. PD testing for switchgear helps you prioritize maintenance resources and take action before this failure occurs.

Power factor is the ratio of capacitive current to resistive current within your operations. Measuring power factor is an effective way to detect insulation defects in electrical equipment.

8. Permanently mounted sensors

Partial discharge (PD) testing plays a critical role in the health of your electrical assets. But some equipment is hard to access or unsafe to open while energized, making testing a challenge. With permanently mounted sensors, it’s possible to conduct online partial discharge (OLPD) testing without exposing workers to danger or shutting down your critical facility. Testing is safer and more efficient, and you get the critical information you need to optimize your electrical assets.

9. Power factor studies

Power factor is the ratio of capacitive current to resistive current within your operations. Measuring power factor is an effective way to detect insulation defects in electrical equipment. By maintaining a high power factor, your plant can avoid costly utility bills resulting from an enforced “low” power-factor clause or high kilovolt-ampere (kVA) demand. With a power factor study, you’ll know how to improve your power factor in support of operational goals.

A power quality study and harmonic analysis helps ensure smooth, reliable electrical energy identifying the source and nature of these disturbances.

10. Power quality studies and harmonic analyses

Dips, spikes, surges, and momentary outages can damage your critical equipment and systems, or cause them to malfunction. Not only do these outages cost you money, but they may be creating unsafe conditions or other serious problems for your critical facility. A power quality study and harmonic analysis helps ensure smooth, reliable electrical energy identifying the source and nature of these disturbances.

11. Power system reliability studies

Risk analysis and reliability studies are essential tools for the design of power systems within critical, continuous-process facilities. Power system reliability studies provide the information necessary to upgrade and maintain your power delivery infrastructure. The results of the studies focus on reducing operating costs, improving efficiency, increasing reliability, and improving system maintainability.

Reaping the full benefits of digital relay technology requires time and skill to appropriately design and integrate.

12. Relay design and integration

In the event of a fault, protective relays safeguard electrical systems, equipment, and people. Replacing aging electromechanical (EM) relays with digital ones is fast, cost-effective, and delivers a host of benefits if designed and integrated properly. Reaping the full benefits of digital relay technology requires time and skill to appropriately design and integrate.

13. Short circuit and coordination studies

Every time you expand, reconfigure, add a load, or upgrade your electrical distribution system, you challenge its reliability. Short circuit and coordination studies help manage these complexities by ensuring protective devices are properly set and coordinated to quickly isolate a failure. These studies give you a better understanding of current electrical distribution system operation, along with information you need to improve protection for equipment, personnel, and your business as a whole.

Remote services

1. LIFE™ Services

Vertiv LIFE™ Services provides continuous monitoring and data analysis by remote system engineers that quickly, accurately, and safely restore equipment to its proper operating condition.

2. SiteScan™ Services

The health of your company is dependent on the performance of its data centers. You have a great deal invested in equipment and controls to protect your facilities from heat, humidity, and power problems. Vertiv’s SiteScan gives you the clear, centralized oversight and equipment control you need to fully leverage that investment.

3. Thermal remote monitoring

Leveraging your thermal management systems to support business objectives such as improving energy efficiency and cutting costs takes superior system insight and control. Continuous monitoring of your critical thermal equipment gives you this insight. Real-time data allows you to quickly make system adjustments based on your load requirements. This agility optimizes cooling and overall data center performance.

4. UPS remote monitoring

Approximately 37 percent of all UPS system failures are battery related. The best way to offset the risk of UPS failure is to implement an integrated service plan. Having this type of plan that uses secure communication technology allows for ongoing remote monitoring of UPS and battery health.

Equipment upgrades and replacements

1. Battery replacement

A single bad cell in a string of batteries can compromise your entire backup power system and leave you without protection. That’s why as soon as batteries are placed into service, they should be maintained with a program that identifies system anomalies and trends end of life. This data, along with Vertiv’s extensive industry experience, allows you to truly understand the health of your batteries and ensure timely, cost-effective replacement.

Circuit Breaker Upgrades and Replacements; Life-Extension Services

2. Circuit breaker upgrades and replacements

Circuit breakers play a critical role in protecting the people and equipment in your data center, and are integral in limiting the damage should a fault occur. But like all electrical components, circuit breakers can wear out and require an upgrade or replacement. By replacing your aging circuit breakers, you will lower your maintenance requirements and reduce the safety risk to your personnel.

3. Liebert EC Fan Upgrade Service

Improve energy efficiency and overall system reliability in your data center by utilizing the newest technology for your thermal infrastructure. Electrically commutated (EC) fans offer innovative technology with exceptional value. When integrated with continuous speed control across the full operating range of thermal management units, EC fans provide a simple, cost-effective way to introduce energy-efficient technology by regulating airflow and reducing fan input power.

4. Liebert iCOM control upgrade service

In a typical data center, cooling accounts for 38 percent of total energy consumption. Improvements to your cooling system are an opportunity for significant cost savings. Liebert iCOM control upgrade service enables more efficient variable capacity control. The intelligent control capabilities immediately enable energy and cost savings.

5. Liebert VSD upgrade service

Load demand in your data center changes all the time. But fan speed and airflow from your legacy computer room air conditioning (CRAC) system likely remain constant. What’s more, fan speed is likely set to accommodate peak loads, which rarely exist. As a result, you’re using energy you don’t need and running up costs. Liebert variable speed drive (VSD) upgrade service allows you to match motor speed to changing load demand, reducing energy costs without compromising data center performance.

6. Life-extension services

Aging electrical equipment requires more maintenance and is more likely to fail than a newer system. It could even pose serious safety risks. However, replacing a worn down or obsolete electrical distribution system asset is no minor or inexpensive task. Vertiv’s complete range of life-extension services helps you take advantage of the latest technology without incurring high replacement costs.

7. Relay upgrades and replacements

Keeping up with the rapid advances in technology and the increasing demand for improved power and reliability is a challenge for today’s electrical asset managers. Relay upgrades and replacements allow you to replace your obsolete protection system and take advantage of the advancements in protection technology without the expense of installing new switchgear.

8. Repair services

As electrical equipment ages, components begin to wear and insulation deteriorates. This eventually leads to failure that can cost you millions unless you can quickly identify the problem, troubleshoot, and repair. Properly repaired assets increase system availability and improve performance.

9. Transformer services

Large power transformers are some of the most reliable assets used in electrical power systems. Even so, they can and do fail. Transformer failures can cost you millions in lost production, income and customers. Through regular transformer testing and maintenance, you can uncover developing problems before they escalate. This enables proactive repair that supports system reliability and business continuity.

10. UPS full bank capacitor replacement

Your UPS systems use large capacitor banks made up of both DC electrolytic and AC polymeric film capacitors that degrade over time. Proactively replacing a full bank of capacitors is strongly recommended to achieve long service life and avoid unplanned downtime.

Spare parts and part management

1. Spare parts kits for industrial sites

Make sure you have the parts on hand for every situation. Your industrial power protection system is designed to operate for 20+ years, but it will need timely parts replacements to function properly. Contact us for recommendations on spare parts kits according to the system age and application environment.

2. Spare parts and spare parts management

Unplanned downtime can cost your business thousands of dollars a minute and have serious consequences including loss of critical systems, revenue, and customer confidence. An important aspect of ensuring the highest level of availability for your data center is having the right spare parts available when and where you need them.

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