AMKA Engineering / Electrical Health Assessment

Find faults while the plant keeps running.

Heat at the connections and discharge through the insulation can develop inside a closed panel. An Electrical Health Assessment finds both and turns every reading into a rated, written next step.

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AMKA / Decision guide

Two readings of the same asset

01 / ThermographyHeat at connections

02 / TEV + ultrasoundDischarge activity

Illustration: Connection heat and insulation discharge feed one severity-rated report. The drawing is conceptual, not a site result.

01 / The assessment

Two failure paths. One assessment.

Thermography reads heat at current-carrying connections. TEV and ultrasound read discharge in the insulation. A closed, energised panel can hide both.

Connections

Thermography

Resistance heating, imbalance and overload while current is flowing.

Insulation

TEV + ultrasound

Internal, surface and airborne discharge that may produce no useful thermal warning.

Combined result

One severity-rated written report. One next action for each finding.

02 / What the instruments catch

Two faults a visual inspection could miss.

One surfaced as heat at a connection. The other surfaced as sound from the insulation. That is why the assessment uses both methods rather than asking either one to cover the other’s blind spot.

Infrared image of the compressor isolator showing one terminal at 65.8 degrees Celsius — Instrument viewHeat pattern

Visual photo of the same compressor isolator showing a deteriorated terminal connection — Ordinary viewDeteriorated lug

Connection fault · Danger class

The connection running hot.

One compressor-isolator terminal reached 65.8 °C — 18.7 °C above the comparison point. The report traced the anomaly to the visibly deteriorated connection.

See the report’s numbers → How the survey works →

An AMKA technician wearing headphones and using a flexible ultrasonic probe to survey closed live switchgear for partial discharge — Instrument viewAirborne ultrasound

Carbonised electrical tracking spread across a busbar support and insulation barriers inside opened switchgear — Opened laterCarbon tracking

Insulation fault · Closed panel

Heard before it becomes this.

TEV and ultrasound can register discharge activity while the board remains closed and running. Carbon tracking is what that deterioration can look like once the panel is opened.

How the discharge screen works →

03 / Choose the depth

Choose the assessment depth.

Basic screens the two failure paths. Standard and Comprehensive allow the scope to go deeper when transformer, earthing, insulation or protection evidence requires it.

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Depth	Methods and assets	Operating condition / decision
Basic — ScreenThe base of every programme	Thermography: panels, boards, joints and terminations. TEV + ultrasound: closed MV switchgear.Rated findings, in writing.	Equipment keeps running.Where are the live warning signs?
Standard — DeepenEverything in Basic, plus	Transformer condition: oil sampling and DGA. Earthing assessment.	Equipment still running.Where should condition evidence go deeper?
Comprehensive — VerifyEverything in Standard, plus	Shutdown insulation resistance. Protection relay verification.	Scheduled in your agreed outage window.What must be verified during the outage?

Basic is already combined.

Thermography and TEV + ultrasound answer different failure questions, so both belong in the base screen.

Depth follows the findings.

Standard and Comprehensive add work only when the condition or the decision requires it.

The quote follows the site.

Asset count, access, switching arrangements and report depth shape the scope. See the cost anatomy →

04 / One-off, or programme

See how conditions change over time.

A one-off survey establishes a baseline. Repeat surveys of the same points, using comparable methods and operating conditions, can help assess changes over time.

01 /Year one

The baseline.

Every panel, joint and termination is mapped live, rated and registered. This can stand alone as a one-off survey.

02 /Year two

The direction.

The same points are read again. Change becomes visible and completed fixes can be checked against the baseline.

03 /Year three

Maintenance planning.

Comparable readings can help identify changes and inform maintenance priorities and budgets. They do not, by themselves, establish when an asset will fail.

Selected past clients

Electrical survey work already delivered.

Thermography and partial discharge surveys delivered across industrial and port environments, including Panasonic, Westports and GDC Putrajaya.

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You do not need to choose the test.

Name the asset, what has happened, and the decision the output must support. AMKA will recommend the screening scope, when deeper work may be needed, and who must deliver each part.

05 / After a finding

Each finding comes with a next action.

Every finding is tied to the asset, rated and translated into a proportionate next move. The report does not turn every anomaly into a larger job.

01
Record the finding.
Asset, location, instrument reading, visual context and severity are recorded together.
02
Set the next action.
Monitor, plan a repair, verify during an outage or deepen the test — according to the finding.
03
Fix the boundary.
If switching, isolation, deeper testing or corrective work is needed, the responsible party and separate scope are named first.

When a finding points beyond the assessment: See the wider electrical routes →

06 / Before you approve the scope

The practical questions, answered.

The proposal removes the unknowns that usually hold an electrical survey up. You know what will happen, what will arrive and what is outside the price before work begins.

Will the plant need to stop?: Basic and Standard screen live equipment while it keeps running. Comprehensive adds tests that are scheduled inside an agreed outage window.
Do we need to choose the tests?: No. Give us the asset, the operating concern and the decision the result must support. The proposal recommends the depth and states why.
Can the scope grow without approval?: No. Assets, access, methods, report depth and price are fixed in the proposal. Deeper testing, specialist support and corrective work are quoted separately.
We already have a competent person inspecting. Why this as well?: Because the Electricity Regulations 1994 set who inspects and how often, never what to look for. Nothing in them requires anyone to measure a live connection for heat — and loose connections are the single largest cause of electrical failure. The full argument →
Where can AMKA attend?: We are based in the Klang Valley and serve clients across Malaysia. Site location and access requirements are accounted for in the proposal.

07 / What to send

Start with whatever scope you already have.

A complete specification is not required. Any one of these is enough for AMKA to begin shaping the free proposal or quotation.

Asset list or BQ
Attach the existing schedule or bill of quantities in the proposal form. We will work from the asset names, quantities and stated requirements.
Existing evidence
A previous report, trip history, maintenance record, reading or photograph helps us identify the right starting depth.
Just the need
Name the asset, location, urgency and the decision the output must support. We will identify what else is needed.

Next step

Send the scope you have. We will build the proposal.

The free proposal or quotation sets the recommended depth, assets, access assumptions, delivery boundaries and price. There is no commitment to proceed. AMKA is based in the Klang Valley and serves clients across Malaysia.

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