electrical failure analysis

Electrical Failure Analysis

It goes without saying that we depend on electricity. Whether to run critical equipment or electronics needed to operate a business or the electrical power infrastructure relied upon by an entire city or region, electricity is one of our most basic needs, but it's not without complexities and risks.

When incidents or failures to various electrical systems, equipment or processes occur, you need a skilled expert to assess the damage, determine the possible cause and provide mitigation options so recovery occurs quickly and cost-effectively.

Experts in Electrical Failures and Incidents

Electrical system failures can have far-reaching effects and cause serious damage, resulting in fires, power outages, equipment failures, and injury. Regardless of size, our experienced engineers have analyzed failures ranging from minor service interruptions on just a few systems to large equipment failure investigations to an outage affecting an entire region of the country.

Our electrical engineers have a multi-disciplinary team at their disposal to assist with any type of matter. With vast backgrounds, our teams are equipped to provide quick answers on failures related to:

  • Appliances
  • Circuit breakers/switchgear
  • Equipment failure
  • Electrical control systems
  • Electrical fires
  • Electrical injuries
  • Electronics 
  • Fire, heat, smoke, soot contamination
  • Hardware or software
  • Industrial, Commercial, Manufacturing Equipment
  • Lightning and power surge
  • MEP
  • Power generation equipment
  • Product liability
  • Transformers
  • Vehicle electronic systems
  • Water contamination

Scientific Approach to Electrical Failure Analysis

Whether the event was due to weather, fire, water, failure, improper installation, or operation, our investigators keep the scientific method, at the core of what they do. Our experts work thousands of routine cases each year, as well as a number of major losses exceeding $50M. Our multidisciplinary experts have the skill set to help with any type or size of the loss, and the technology and process organization to preserve and catalog evidence—even in the midst of a fire or flood—providing certainty to our clients when it's most needed. Our protocols do not waver.

Our goal is to provide clients with the answers they seek, from experts that are skilled, experienced, and can easily communicate findings to you, your client, or a courtroom.

Envista's Electrical Failure Expertise

Our broad, and highly specialized expertise includes, but is not limited to:

  • Electrical engineers
  • MEP experts
  • Product liability specialists
  • Equipment specialists
  • Smart device and IoT experts
  • Electrical engineers with CFIs and CFEIs
  • Expert testimony and litigation support

Electrical Engineering Experts

The expertise needed to uncover and evaluate facts related to the cause of electrical failures and accidents is highly specialized. Dependent upon the size of the matter, many lands in litigation. Our experts are skilled at scene and evidence preservation and can assist with subrogation opportunities, determining potential liability and expert testimony. Our broad, and highly specialized expertise includes, but is not limited to:

  • Electrical engineers
  • MEP experts
  • Product liability specialists
  • Equipment specialists
  • Smart device and IoT experts
  • Electrical engineers with CFIs and CFEIs
  • Expert testimony and litigation support

Electrical Analysis Instruments

Following incidents, our electrical experts help determine the cause or causes of the failure or failed components by utilizing these tools, but not limited to:

  • Multi-meter testing
  • Megohmmeters
  • X-rays/Radiographs
  • Computerized Tomography (CT) Scans
  • Emission Microscopy: Near Infrared (EMMI)
  • Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)
  • Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR)
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