Knowledge base for electrical contractors for questions about inspection reports and wiring diagrams that would otherwise land with the site manager.

The duty to keep them lies not with you but with the employer at the workplace – your customer. Under § 11 ESV 2012 (the Austrian Electrical Protection Ordinance), at least the reports from the last two periodic inspections must be kept; if the inspection interval is longer than three years, the report on the last inspection is enough, and the reports must be available for inspection at the workplace or on site. For you, the other side of it matters: you can ask which version you yourselves have on file for this property, and the answer gives date, file and page. Whether it also flags that two versions with the same inspection date are lying around is a good thing to check in the first weeks after go-live.

The ETS project stays in ETS – it’s 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. In the first weeks after go-live, try it with a real list to see whether these exports give a useful answer to which group address sits on which actuator channel. If the system finds no export, it tells you so – and you know to put a printout in the installation file on the next project.

That’s what permissions are for, and they work by document type and role, not by individual file: manufacturer documentation, installation instructions and test records for everyone who goes out on site; cost calculations, change orders and personnel documents for the office only. We configure this once with you during set-up, so nobody has to fiddle with it on their own. During onboarding it’s worth trying exactly this: ask about the cost calculation using the apprentice’s role and see what comes back.

It can produce a draft as a Word or PDF file from what you have on the installation: property details, 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 signature come from the person who was on site. The system doesn’t inspect, approve or send anything. Whether such a draft saves you work becomes clear in the first weeks after go-live – try it with an installation whose last inspection report you wrote yourself.