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The effective deployment of generators to critical facilities can mean the difference between losing and maintaining uptime. While most critical facilities have generators, many carriers and organizations lack comprehensive databases about all of their fixed and portable generators.
Before a disaster strikes, it's crucial to have some basic data available about every generator in a network. While most organizations have generator preventative maintenance processes in place for all their generators, and a general knowledge of all network generators, a much smaller number is in possession of the data below for each of their generators:
- Fuel Capacity
- Run Time
- Last Service
- Fueling Contractor
- Surrogate Fueling Contractor
- Emergency Technician
- EPA Emissions Logs
These are only basic facts. NetLogix gathers further information about transportation for portable generators, contacts emergency volunteers ahead of time to transport and monitor generator fueling and performance, confirms that facilities have all coupling equipment to ensure complete interoperability between generators and power systems, and undertakes a number of other prepatory activities.
Having contact lists of transportation contractors ahead of time helps ensure that generators can be deployed to remote locations if necessary. Key network nodes are not always easily accessible, and having a reliable contractor to haul fuel to fixed generators in remote locations, or to haul portable generators to remote locations, helps ensure uptime.
Our field and office staff have been working with large, industrial generators of various capacities for decades. We have been doing so in high-pressure situations like those engendered by disasters, and understand that one of the best measures to ensure uptime is a strong inventory with plenty of information and reliable contacts. But we do more than planning.
During a large scale disaster, NetLogix can be an organization's primary generator POC, host 24 hour conference bridges, keep real-time fuel logs of all active generators, and manage all vendors contracted to work with generators. Once the network has been restored to optimal performance, NetLogix works to return all generators to states of full operability in their customary locations. NetLogix has seasoned experience in all areas related to generator inventorying and emergency deployment.