Armand Visioli
President
ASCO Power Technologies
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construction and more intense crisis preparedness is
stretching the engineering
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trauma centers and clinics.
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because our personnel work
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the resources necessary to
anticipate and respond to
your evolving needs. That
includes quality products
and 24/7 service.
You can depend on
long-term and reliable
relationships that we build
with trust and cooperation.
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our ongoing innovations in
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we can help. E-mail us at
healthcare@asco.com.
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When the stakes are high,
healthcare decision makers turn
to ASCO Power Technologies.
ASCO Power Transfer
Switches and
Power Control Systems
Specifying Peace of Mind
Hospitals Want Quality Products, Expert Service,
Reliable Relationships and Long-Term Commitment
Peace of mind is why hospitals, trauma centers and
clinics in North America
and around the world
specify ASCO Power Transfer
Switches and Power Control
Systems for their emergency
power supply systems.
In fact, a majority of
healthcare facilities in the
United States have ASCO
Power Transfer Switches.
Nearly 100,000 ASCO
Power Transfer Switches
installed in those facilities
help keep power on whenever the utility source fails.
Healthcare management and their consul-
tants know that selecting
ASCO is a decision they
can depend on for 20 years
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prefer and depend on ASCO
Power Technologies.
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comprehensive product
portfolio, deep expertise
built on more than a century
of innovation, real time
communications capabilities and responsive 24/7
service.
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the deep resources that
ASCO can provide them as
part of the global Emerson
Network Power business.
So when they want to
resolve the issue of emer-
gency and standby power
systems, they solve it with
ASCO because ASCO is the
solution.
From practically every
continent on earth, hospital
decision makers and their
consultants are choosing
ASCO. And when they do,
those facilities get properly
tested, commissioned and
maintained power transfer
switches and engine generator paralleling systems. Plus,
they know ASCO provides
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the latest technology.
Six decision makers
share their experience with
ASCO Power technologies
on the following pages.
They are Kevin Deitsch of
St. Joseph Hospital in Denver, Colorado, Yiorgos Andritsakis of UCSF/Mt. Zion
Medical Center in San Francisco, California, Roger Friesen of Methodist Hospital
in Minneapolis, Minnesota,
Bill Pitts of Madigan Army
Medical Center in Ft. Lewis,
Washington, Jim DeStefano
of Altoona Hospital in Altoona, Pennsylvania, and Bill
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CHALLENGE
Centralize and update
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power and control system to
improve power reliability for
critical and noncritical loads,
and to accommodate steady
growth.
SOLUTION
Install three, 1500 kW
engine generators and
arrange for supplemental
portable generation. Transfer
power and control the
overall system with nine
ASCO 7000 Series Closed
Transition Bypass-Isolation
Transfer Switches, an ASCO
SYNCHROPOWER® Control System
and PowerQuest® monitoring.
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St. Joseph Hospital in Denver, Colorado created a premier
emergency power system that can power the entire hospital for
extended periods.
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power control systems in
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Codes, Testing
And Automated Recording
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remote monitoring
Expert, Tailorable, 24/7 Service
The most common cause of transfer switch
failure is lack of regular maintenance.
Because power failures can
be life-threatening and costly, there is no room for error
when it comes to maintaining a transfer switch.
Trained ASCO Services technicians properly
maintain and test transfer
switches and power control
systems for hospitals coast
to coast. They are available
around the clock in most
areas and parts can be on
site in a matter of a few
hours.
Two levels of maintenance programs can be customized to meet the needs
of one facility or many networked facilities across the
country.
Level One includes
annual scheduled maintenance during or after busi-
ness hours, a discount on
parts and a reduced hourly
rate for additional labor that
might be required.
Level Two includes Level
One service, plus all parts,
labor, expenses and emergency service calls. Emergency service is dispatched
ASCO Services services
a range of transfer switches
from a variety of manufacturers. Technicians resolve
problems created by corrosion, evidence of overheating, contact erosion and
other causes.
Besides maintaining
equipment, ASCO Services can design, install and
upgrade power transfer
switches and power control
systems.
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checks operation of a multiple
engine-generator paralleling system
with a laptop computer. The computer tests multiple components
quickly and accurately and can send
maintenance results to a printer for
hard-copy documentation. Upgrading power control systems
without requiring system shutdowns
is another ASCO service.
Fully stocked vans support ASCO
Services technicians during on-site
visits, often eliminating the need to
order parts.
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Creating Innovation
Roland Josenhans, manager of Product Engineering, worked on the team that
developed an advanced power transfer switch design.
Satisfying the needs
of hospital decision
makers is one reason
why ASCO Power
Technologies is the
number one manufacturer of power
transfer switches on
the planet.
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Reliability is what healthcare
engineering departments
and facilities directors want
most in automatic transfer
switches. Reliability means
the difference between a
night spent resolving problems or sleeping soundly.
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of innovative and proven deTJHODPO»HVSBUJPO¼FYJCJMJty, quality, ease of operation
and serviceability. ASCO
Power Transfer Switches deliver it all.
For more than a century, every major advance
in power transfer switching
and control design and development has come from
ASCO. ASCO pioneered the
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transfer switch
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transfer switch controller.
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control panel
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analysis helps engineering
teams design components
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manuals.
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arcing and main contacts
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switches than any other
company in the world.
ASCO continues to
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ASCO can help healthcare
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