The sub-millisecond surge that can sink your AI investment: Why power quality is now a boardroom issue
A maintenance manager had a puzzle he could not solve. A PLC on his line had failed, been replaced, and failed again. By the third failure, his team had checked everything: no overload, no short circuit, no wiring fault.
“We have replaced this PLC twice this year, and now it has failed again,” he told engineers at Schneider Electric.
The culprit, found only after weeks of investigation, was a transient voltage surge lasting less than a millisecond. It was far too brief for ordinary meters to register, yet powerful enough to destroy hardware again and again.
For Amit Sharma, Vice President – Power Products and Digital Energy, Greater India Zone at Schneider Electric, the story captures why power quality has become one of the most underestimated risks in enterprise technology, and why CIOs, CFOs and boards can no longer treat it as someone else’s problem.
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