#132: Beyond Compliance │Part 1: Why Asset History Matters

Discover why asset history matters for compliance, cybersecurity, and grid resilience. This episode is the first in a new miniseries exploring how software supports compliance readiness in power system testing and substation operations. Every protection test leaves behind more than a test report. It becomes part of an asset’s history, including protection settings, firmware versions, maintenance activities, configuration changes, and the documentation that explains what happened and why. As substations become more digital, preserving this history is becoming increasingly important for compliance, cybersecurity, and grid resilience. In Part 1, OMICRON Regional Training Manager Will Scheibe explains why utilities need reliable access to asset history long after the original work is completed. Will explains how connected records help engineers, asset managers, cybersecurity teams, and auditors understand not only what changed, but why. He also describes how OMICRON’s ADMO software with its InSight visualization platform supports structured asset, test, maintenance, and configuration data across the asset lifecycle. Discover OMICRON’s ADMO and InSight here. We would really like to know what you think about Energy Talks and which topics you would like to hear more about. To do this, simply send us an email to podcast@omicronenergy.com and be sure to give us a star review on Spotify or Apple Podcast. Thanks for your feedback! Please join us to listen to the next episode of Energy Talks 🎙️