In Chicago with Jon Bucciarelli at IEEE T&D PES 2026
Overview
At the 2026 IEEE PES T&D Show in Chicago, APC Media’s Alan Ross sat down with Jon Bucciarelli, President of SDMyers, for a wide-ranging conversation about the industrial transformer shortage, proactive asset stewardship, and the life-or-death connection between transformer reliability and electrical safety on the plant floor.
Jon shares why serving the industrial “underserved market” is at the heart of SDMyers’ mission — and why proactive maintenance today is the only real defense against a supply chain that won’t recover overnight.
Electrical Safety Starts with Reliability
🔑 Key Takeaways:
- Utilities and data centers consumed transformer inventory at breakneck speed—leaving industrial customers waiting 18 months to 4 years for replacements.
- For most industrial customers with 1–5 transformers, every unit is critical—yet many have no electrical engineer on staff.
- NFPA 70B and emerging fault-detection technologies now make early detection possible, acting like a “body scan” for transformer health.
- The link between transformer reliability and electrical safety: a reliable plant IS a safe plant. Transformer fires don’t just cost money; they cost lives.
- Jon joined the board of ESRA (Electrical Safety and Reliability Association), co-founded by Alan Ross, bringing SDMyers’ decades of field experience into standards leadership.
- SDMyers’ founding philosophy, established in the 1960s: keep the transformer in reliable shape, and it will last for decades and be safe.
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At SDMyers, we help organizations maximize transformer uptime, resilience, and certainty. If you’re ready to take the next step in ensuring the reliability of your electrical assets, connect with our team today.
