Webinar Description:

Transformer failures can disrupt operations, reduce reliability, create costly downtime, and affect your organization’s reputation. Join Jon Bucciarelli and Jason Dennison as they walk through the first four of SDMyers’ Eight Truths and explain how these principles can help teams better understand transformer risk, recognize developing problems, and build a more proactive reliability program.

In this session, we’ll cover why asset criticality matters more than age alone when prioritizing maintenance, how transformer oil can provide valuable insight into electrical, thermal, and insulation-related issues, and how elevated temperatures, moisture, and oxygen contribute to insulation aging and shorter asset life. You’ll learn how these factors work together to provide a clearer picture of transformer health and help teams make better decisions about where to focus their time and resources.

We’ll also look at how a more disciplined approach to transformer reliability can help teams move beyond reacting to alarms or unexpected failures. By combining criticality, condition data, and an understanding of aging mechanisms, teams can identify risk earlier, investigate issues sooner, and take action before problems become emergencies.

Whether you’re building a transformer reliability program or already collecting condition data but still dealing with unexpected failures, this session will help you better understand what your transformers are telling you and turn that information into more proactive reliability decisions. We hope you’ll join us!

Learning Takeaways:

Understand why asset criticality can be more important than transformer age when prioritizing maintenance and reliability efforts

Discover how transformer oil analysis can reveal developing electrical, thermal, and insulation-related problems

Recognize how elevated temperatures, moisture, and oxygen contribute to insulation aging and increased transformer risk

About the Presenters:

Jon Bucciarelli is President of SDMyers, an electric reliability company specializing in transformer maintenance, fluid testing, field service, and fleet reliability. He leads with a servant mindset, setting the vision, empowering teams, and building community while keeping the focus on serving customers well. A frequent speaker and published author on maintenance and reliability, Jon has presented at industry conferences and contributed to Transformer Technology and other leading publications. He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Akron and an MS in Operations Management from Kettering University. He brings that engineering and business background to every conversation about protecting critical power assets.

Jason Dennison is Director of Diagnostic Analytical Services at SDMyers, where he leads teams responsible for field inspection, laboratory analysis, diagnostics, quality, and product development. With more than 14 years of leadership experience in the electric power industry, he brings deep technical authority in dielectric liquid analysis, dissolved gas analysis (DGA), moisture, and furan interpretation. Jason guided SDMyers’ industry-leading laboratory to full ISO 17025 accreditation and continues to advance diagnostics that help customers understand what their transformers are telling them. He holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from The University of Akron and has authored numerous articles on transformer oil testing and diagnostic reliability.