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Many design guidelines, construction, and facility management service contracts continue to reference the IEEE Color Books as the standard of care for industrial and commercial power systems even though the Color Books are being sunsetted and replaced by the IEEE 3000 Standards Collection™.   This needs to change.  Technical content that used to reside within articulated chapters in the Color Books is now being updated and spun off (by IEEE industrial and commercial power system engineers) into smaller, faster-moving consensus documents; similar to the consensus documents produced by the International Electrotechnical Commission.

Several “dot standards” with candidate revisions are now open for public review^[1]; among them IEEE 3006.3 Recommended Practice for Determining the Impact of Preventative Maintenance on the Reliability of Industrial and Commercial Power Systems.   This recommended practice describes how to determine the impact of preventive maintenance on the reliability of industrial and commercial power systems. It is likely to be of greatest value to the power-oriented engineer with limited experience in the area of reliability. It can also be an aid to all engineers responsible for the electrical design of industrial and commercial power systems.

IEEE 3006.3 is among several other dot standards that are now open for public review:  ANSI Standards Action | PDF Pages 13-18.   We focus on power system maintenance ahead of the 2018 football season because the safety and success of these events depends upon reliable power; and reliable power depends upon appropriate maintenance.

Comments are due October 16, 2018.  There are several ways to participate in the revision process.

• Communicate directly with IEEE Standards Association for a review copy.  Contact: Pat Roder (p.roder@ieee.org).
• Submit your comments on the IEEE-SA Public Review landing page.
• Join the bi-weekly teleconferences of the IEEE Education & Healthcare Facilities Committee where discussion about resource allocation toward campus power system maintenance in service of reliability is a standing item.  The IEEE E&H committee has several years of campus power system outage data which is in the process of being refined for use by education industry electrical engineers; similar to the formal treatment given to the reliability indices in the care of IEEE Distribution Reliability Working Group.^[2]

All IEEE standards are on the standing agenda of the Standards Michigan Open Agenda teleconference — every Wednesday, 11 AM Eastern time.  Login information is available at the top-right of our home page.

Issue: [18-235]

Category: Electrical, Public Safety, Risk Management

Contact: Mike Anthony, Robert Arno, Neil Dowling, Jim Harvey, Robert Schuerger

[1] ANSI Standards Action | PDF Pages 13-18.

[2] IEEE 1366 Guide for Electric Power Distribution Reliability Indices is used in many jurisdictions for benchmarking regulated public utility power system reliability.