Impact Recorders Identify Damage During Power Generation Equipment Transportation
Billy Sanez of SpotSee also explains how temperature fluctuations may damage transformers, steam turbines, and other power generation equipment during transport.
At POWERGEN 2025, Billy Sanez, Director of Global Marketing at SpotSee, spoke with Turbomachinery International about protecting aerospace components, turbines, and other power generation equipment during transport with impact and temperature monitors. The risks during transport are high, but machines may be identified and addressed if operators know where to look.
Impact and temperature fluctuations are major transport-related risks, and Sanez speaks a bit about SpotSee’s monitoring capabilities that allow end-users to deploy maintenance teams for exact fixes.
According to Sanez: “When it comes to the transportation of turbines and transformers, you must be very careful when you ship them. There are some components inside that, when they break, it becomes very expensive to monitor. We bring impact monitoring, the moment it happens, to the end-user so they can find a solution quickly.”
“Temperature fluctuations can have a huge impact on transformers or electronic components, so you need to make sure temperature is maintained,” said Sanez. “If you do not have an active monitoring system, we have Thermax labels, which are irreversible temperature indicators. If a threshold temperature is hit, it gets recorded.”
