Performing Arc Flash assessment and mitigation is one of the most important actions necessary to increase the safety of employees working around live electrical equipment. it will save lives and equipment.
Arc Flashes occurs when the electrical current leaves its normal path and travel through the air from one conductor to another or to ground. This current is called arcing current and can be contributed to may factors, but most common are human accident like dropping tools, worn conductor insulation, exposed live parts, dust, equipment failure and poor maintenance.
We minimized the incident energy released during an arc fault by minimizing its duration.
Most of the times we are able to mitigate arc flash incident energy simply by revising the protective devices overcurrent settings. in some cased we make recommendation for installing additional devices such as current limiters.
We calculate the incident energy and flash boundaries based on requirements of NFPA 70E and IEEE 1584.

We can use ETAP or SKM depending on the client requirements.