A wayward possum landed on some live busbars at the Sealy plant, bringing operations to a halt.
The Sealy Mattress plant in Richmond, CA is a 60 year old facility with power distribution equipment that was completely outdated. Upgraded replacement equipment had to be configured to meet strict utility requirements on one end and tie into existing custom bus work on the other end.
THE CHALLENGE
150 Sealy manufacturing employees showed up for work on Monday morning and were told to go home. Gills Electric was called in to fix the problem and they asked IEM for help. An emergency generator was brought in at 830AM on Tuesday while IEM worked on site for several hours opening enclosures and measuring equipment. IEM then set out to build a new bus system with a custom housing to replace the obsoleted air-ventilated busway. There were serious concerns regarding the outlook of continuing operations at this facility if the problem wasn’t fixed.
THE SOLUTION
IEM configured a new 480V busway system with custom connections for PG&E and Sealy.
THE RESULTS
Over the course of a single week, IEM and Gills Electric had the equipment built, installed and back on line with PG&E power – restoring manufacturing operations at Sealy to 100%.
