Validation of the accuracy of practical diagnostic tests for power equipment

Diagnostic Techniques are increasingly employed by utilities as part of integrated programmes to manage their infrastructure assets. These are sophisticated techniques being applied to complicated and diverse networks of equipment. Consequently there are many concerns that these techniques a) are not sufficiently accurate and b) could aggravate the system by, at the very least, depriving other areas of vitally short resources. Thus there is a compelling need to develop and deploy simple and robust analytical techniques that can address these problems. These evaluation approaches would then identify the effective programmes worthy of full support, while minimising the resources deployed on ineffective approaches that are ineffective.