CarI Rathbone is a Chartered Professional Engineer with a civil/structural engineering background. He has over 20 years developing a depth of experience in the engineering design and asset management of overhead lines. With LineSmarts’ practical engineering experience and extensive technical software capabilities it is uniquely able to assist electricity distribution businesses with a wide range of services and find the best possible solutions. Our professional services include:
- Overhead line design:
- Independent design support and review – providing independent quality assurance checks, constructively working with designers to identify gaps where they exist and provide support to fill those gaps as required
- Training – development and delivery of training sessions on specific topics.
- Development/validation of engineering libraries, calculation tools and templates for overhead line design
- Engineering design services
- Development and review of line design processes and standards
- Development and review of design quality assurance systems
- Development and review of Safety in design systems
- Development and review of product specifications
- Asset management:
- Failure investigations
- Specialist asset inspection and engineering evaluation services. Lifetime extension evaluations.
- Detailed engineering studies
- Condition inspection programme development and review, including procedures, documentation and training
- Failure data collection system development and review, including procedures, documentation and training
- Development of asset management data analysis and visualisation systems for the purpose of informing asset management decision-making
- Maintenance strategy development
- Axonic/LineSmarts software related services – providing services to our software users (Axonic should progressively supersede LineSmarts) including:
- technical support
- training
- system integration
- customisation.