The industry is having the right conversation, starting from the wrong point.
For years, the standard approach has been: install, then correct the distortion with filters, reactors, redesigned transformers. It works, but it depends on equipment that has to keep working for the life of the installation — if a filter degrades, the problem comes back.
The new generation of drives flips that order: keeping harmonics low from the start, no filters, no oversizing.
It’s a real shift. I agree with the direction.
👉 But nobody’s answering the right question first: prevent based on what data?
You can’t design a solution for a problem you’ve never measured. And most facilities haven’t. They find out the usual way:
🔹 a transformer running hotter than spec
🔹 a generator that seems undersized
🔹 breakers tripping with no clear pattern
🔹 sensitive equipment resetting for “no reason”
By then, you’re not choosing between prevention and correction anymore. You’re doing damage control.
This is where Electrex fits in — whether you run a facility or you’re a partner speccing solutions for one.
👉 Before you correct harmonics, someone has to see them.
Our monitoring systems give you that visibility continuously, on the same platform you already use for energy and process data:
⚡ Real-time THD and power quality tracking — distortion shows up as a trend, not a surprise
⚡ Event logging per IEC 61000-4-30 (Class S), classified and timestamped the moment they happen
⚡ Data to support IEEE 519 / IEC 61000 compliance, not a one-time audit
⚡ Visibility into which loads drive distortion — knowing, not guessing
⚡ One integrated system: harmonics, consumption, and process together, no silos
For facilities: find out if you’re a candidate for prevention technology before you invest — or if the real problem is somewhere else.
For partners: a different conversation to bring to a client, beyond the energy bill. Power quality is a problem clients often don’t know they have until you show them the data.
Prevention is the right direction. But it only works if it’s built on visibility, not assumptions.
If I had to change one thing: stop skipping to the solution and start with the measurement that tells you if you actually have the problem you think you do.
📩 Want to see your facility’s power quality profile — or explore monitoring-first conversations with your clients?
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About us
Since 1993 Electrex designs, develops, manufactures and markets, Made in Italy, instruments and software for energy management and control.
The Electrex solutions are used in the Energy Efficiency and Energy Automation applications, for the industrial, commercial, public, civil, and renewable energy sectors allowing a rapid return on investment.
The solutions provided up to now allow the management of over 530,000 measuring points and more than 960,000 points are controlled via Energy Automation applications.
Electrex, one of the first companies to operate in these sectors, has acquired over the years a considerable experience and competence that few other companies can claim to have. With over 40% of the staff dedicated to R & D, we demonstrate our strong commitment to innovation and continuous improvement in order to anticipate the needs of our customers.
