Knowledge base for electrical contractorsfor the question about inspection reports and wiring diagrams that otherwise lands with the site manager.

It is not you who must keep them, but the employer at the workplace — that is, your customer. Under § 11 ESV 2012 (the Austrian Electrical Protection Ordinance), at least the last two reports from the periodic inspections must be kept; if the inspection interval is longer than three years, the report on the last inspection is sufficient, and they must be available for inspection at the workplace or on site. For you, the other half counts: you can ask which version you yourselves have filed for this property, and the answer names date, file and page. Whether it also becomes visible that two versions with the same inspection date are lying around is a good point to check in a demo.

The ETS project stays in ETS — it is a programming file, not a document. What belongs in the knowledge base is what you export from it and hand over to the customer anyway: the group address list as a PDF or spreadsheet, the functional description, the distribution board plan, the photos of the actuators. Whether the question of which group address sits on which actuator channel is answered usefully from these exports, you try out in a demo with a real list. If the system finds no export, it says so — and you know that a printout belongs in the installation file on the next project.

That is what the permissions are for, and they depend on document types and roles, not on individual files: manufacturer documentation, installation instructions and test records for everyone who goes out to site; cost calculations, change orders and personnel documents only for the office. This is set once during setup together with you, so that nobody has to fine-tune things on their own. In a demo it is worth playing through exactly this: ask about the cost calculation with the apprentice’s role and see what comes back.

It can create a draft as a Word or PDF file from what you hold on the installation: property data, distribution board designations, the list from the last inspection report, the installation report — each detail with the file it comes from. The measured values come from your test instrument, the assessment and the signature from the person who was on site. The system inspects nothing, approves nothing and sends nothing. Whether such a draft saves you work, you see in a demo with an installation whose last inspection report you wrote yourself.