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Which plants VULKRON is for, industry by industry.

Maintenance and inspection software for fire protection and electrical safety systems in industrial plants.

The equipment that gets inspected changes from one industry to another. Here are twelve, with the typical systems in each plant.

Twelve industries

In all of them, NOM-002 and NOM-029 are the baseline. On top of that, your criteria add the NFPA standards your plant adopts, your corporate standard, European standards if corporate sets them, and your insurer's, up to FM Global, if your policy requires it. The fire and electrical details are in Fire Protection and Electrical Safety.

The plantWhat is inspected

Manufacturing

In a production building, the hydrant system, the sprinklers, the extinguishers in each area and the power switchboards all sit side by side. NOM-002 requires every plant to have an annual inspection and testing program with records, and that record is what an STPS inspection asks to see. If a different contractor handles each system, they all record under the same criteria: the app accepts no other format.

Extinguishers are inspected under NFPA 10, if your plant adopts it.

Automotive and auto parts

Here, fire protection and electrical systems surround paint booths, presses and finished-goods warehouses, with their substation. The audit may come from corporate or from a customer; for both, every routine is signed at the point of execution, with a timestamp.

With a European parent company, sprinklers can be inspected under EN 12845.

Food and beverage

The fire protection system and its pumps run among cold rooms, boilers, packaging lines and high-volume warehouses. Pump tests, no-flow and flow, follow the frequency your criteria set. When the insurer asks for the record of those systems, it comes from the logbook of each asset.

The system and the pumps are inspected under NFPA 25, if your plant adopts it.

Mining and metals

Equipment is spread across the processing plant, workshops, substations and pump rooms, sometimes far from each other. If there is no signal in the pump room, the app works just the same and syncs when the connection returns. The ground test that NOM-029 requires at least once a year goes on the calendar, with the range your criteria set.

Chemicals, plastics and rubber

Flammable storage areas may have foam systems, sprinklers and hydrants, and the plant itself has substations and switchboards. Foam is one of the configurable families: the VULKRON Engineers propose its routines and your plant approves or adjusts them. Where the risk is higher, your criteria can flag more critical points in each routine.

Pharmaceuticals and medical devices

In clean areas, controlled warehouses and laboratories, inspections cover clean agent suppression and the switchboards the process depends on. Each asset in those areas can carry its QR code, and the inspection is recorded in front of it. Whatever your corporate office requires for those areas goes into your routines as checkpoints.

Logistics and distribution centers

In high-bay racking, the storage sprinklers are inspected; outside, by the loading docks, the hydrants and the site's substation. In a facility with several buildings, the VULKRON Map shows which building and which spot each fire protection asset is in.

NFPA 25 applies to the system and the storage sprinklers, if your plant adopts it.

Steel and metalworking

Substations and high-capacity switchboards power furnaces, overhead cranes and workshops, with heat and vibration all around. For every switchboard and breaker, VULKRON keeps the maintenance record NOM-029 requires, with signature and photo.

If your plant adopts NFPA 70E, the maintenance of those switchboards factors into the assessment of arc flash risk.

Glass, cement and ceramics

Next to continuous kilns and mills, heat and dust surround the power switchboards. If your criteria include thermography for hot spots, VULKRON schedules it on those switchboards. The mills' motor control centers are included in the same program, with their maintenance routines.

Paper and cardboard

Roll and finished-goods warehouses have sprinklers, hydrants and detection, plus the fire water tank with its periodic level and exterior inspection. In high-risk areas, NOM-002 adds detection, alarms and fixed systems.

The system is inspected under NFPA 25 and detection under NFPA 72, if your plant adopts them.

Electronics, machinery and equipment

In clean assembly lines and component warehouses, detection and alarm enter the program, along with the control panels. Each type of detection device has its own inspection and testing frequency, and in VULKRON each one becomes its own routine, with its report.

That frequency is set by NFPA 72, if your plant adopts it.

Energy and data centers

Substations, transformers, UPS units and emergency generators have their routines, together with the clean agent suppression in the electrical rooms. The emergency generator test follows the frequency your criteria set. The VULKRON Engineers answer questions about those criteria; the arc flash study and protective device coordination are quoted separately.

On the electrical side, NFPA 70E is added if your plant adopts it.

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