Confident Decisions. Optimized Uptime
Specify correctly to protect your long-term asset performance
The Challenges You Face:
The biggest threats to uptime and lifecycle cost are usually not created during operation.
They are built into the asset much earlier through poor decisions during specification, procurement, integration, and commissioning.
What if an independent asset-owner lens across the full decision chain could help you with the following questions:
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Indeed, most asset owners find it challenging to make well-founded decisions during the specification phase that safeguard availability, lifecycle costs, and asset performance over decades of operation.
Our independent asset-owner lens across the full decision chain can help you ensure that drive and automation specifications are solid, supportable, and not driven by short-term vendor interests.
Your Desired Outcome:
If you want an asset that performs, remains supportable, and does not surprise you later, you will want to:
✓ Protect the asset, not just the project
✓ Stop vendor-led decisions from shaping your asset strategies
✓ Protect long-term uptime by governing the whole system
✓ Reduce lifecycle risk before it becomes downtime
✓ Turn technical complexity into boardroom-grade decisions
Our Support for You:
From stakeholder alignment to final site acceptance requirements
1. Assess stakeholder needs
| Deliverables: ✓ Stakeholder requirements document with prioritised needs |
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| ✓ Validated requirements baseline approved by key stakeholders |
| How we support you: | |
| • Interview operations teams to capture reliability and uptime requirements | |
| • Engage maintenance personnel to assess serviceability and spare parts expectations | |
| • Workshop with process engineers to define performance and control specifications | |
| • Consult safety managers to identify protection systems and fail-safe modes | |
| • Align with finance stakeholders on CAPEX versus OPEX trade-offs |
2. Establish power drive system (PDS) specifications
| Deliverables: ✓ Power drive system specifications |
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| ✓ Requirements traceability matrix linking the stakeholder needs to the technical specifications |
| How we support you: | |
| • Define verifiable and traceable specifications for the complete electrical power drive train | |
| • Structure specifications to support validation, tendering, and lifecycle governance |
3. Define project scope
| Deliverables: ✓ Scope of supply document with interface matrix |
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| ✓ RACI-aligned responsibilities and boundary definition |
| How we support you: | |
| • Define supply limits between the PDS package and external systems | |
| • Establish a responsibilities matrix covering installation and commissioning | |
| • Specify electrical, mechanical, and control system interfaces and start the interface risk list | |
| • Define included services such as training, documentation, spares, SLA, and warranty | |
| • Explicitly state exclusions to prevent scope ambiguity |
4. Pre-bid meeting clarifications
| Deliverables: ✓ Pre-bid meeting minutes and clarification log |
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| ✓ Aligned interpretation note confirming common understanding across bidders |
| How we support you: | |
| • Coordinate technical clarification meetings with bidders | |
| • Organise vendor site visits to align on operating conditions | |
| • Document and manage bidder Q&A | |
| • Facilitate requirement interpretation workshops | |
| • Communicate bid evaluation criteria clearly and consistently |
5. Factory acceptance test (FAT) requirements
| Deliverables: ✓ FAT requirements document and test plan template |
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| ✓ Acceptance criteria and pass/fail thresholds for factory testing |
| How we support you: | |
| • Define realistic FAT criteria for transformer, drive, and motor before shipment | |
| • Structure tests to verify performance, compliance, and readiness for site |
6. Site acceptance test (SAT) requirements
| Deliverables: ✓ Site acceptance test requirements document |
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| How we support you: | |
| We define SAT procedures for: | |
| • On-site installation verification | |
| • System integration testing (transformer-drive-motor) | |
| • Protection coordination testing | |
| • Performance testing at rated conditions | |
| • Harmonic measurements at grid connection | |
| • Noise and vibration acceptance criteria | |
| • Final documentation requirements |
At Pro-Etic, we don’t sell drives. We specify them correctly.
Vendor-neutral. 30+ years in medium-voltage drive systems. Working exclusively in your interest.
How we do it:
The Pro-Etic Difference?
We don’t sell drives. We specify them correctly.
Unlike vendor-affiliated consultants, we:
✓ Do not have any financial motivation to promote specific brands or topologies.
✓ Evaluate all major manufacturers
✓ Focus on YOUR application requirements, not vendor capabilities
✓ Challenge vendor assumptions with 30+ years of field experience
✓ Translate marketing claims into verifiable technical specifications
The biggest threats to uptime often do not start in operation. They are built much earlier through vague requirements, vendor-led decisions, weak interface controls, and lifecycle risks that remain hidden until handover is complete and the asset is yours to live with. Pro-Etic brings the independent technical and project lens that helps you avoid those mistakes before they become downtime, claims, change orders, and long-term operational regret.
Relevant professional background:
| ✓ Field service experience in medium- and high-power drive systems at Reliance Electric (1989–1995) | |
| ✓ Sales and project engineering roles at Schneider Electric, bridging technical solutions and customer requirements (1995–2007) | |
| ✓ Account management responsibility at Rockwell Automation, aligning commercial strategy with complex industrial clients (2007–2009) | |
| ✓ Program and project management for large drive systems at Siemens Large Drives, delivering complex projects across industries (2009–2016) |
Get Expert Guidance Today
Don’t let uncertainty hold you back. Reach out for practical solutions and expert advice tailored to your power drive system needs. Contact us today to ensure your critical machines are driven reliably, efficiently, and safely.