Hermosa Beach, CA - E&S Grounding Solutions today announced the acquisition of additional engineering software packages from Safe Engineering Services & technologies ltd. in Montreal, Canada, manufacturers of the most powerful engineering software package ever developed for electrical engineers in the power quality field, and one of the most widely accepted substation safety software packages in the world.  The new package of software, called MALZ, will upgrade the existing packages to allow for Advanced Ground Potential Rise (GPR) analysis.

“We currently use two engineering software packages; MultiGround for our GPR’s, and MultiFields for our Lightning Transient Studies” said Michael Esparza, President of E&S Grounding Solutions.  “The new software upgrades the GPR package by incorporating an advanced module from our lightning analysis program, and brings that enhanced technology to every one of our GPR analyses.” 

The new MALZ software module improves the accuracy of the engineering study most importantly by calculating the voltage or potential drop across the grounding system.  Most software packages currently in use, do not account for changes in voltages from one point of the electrical system to the next, resulting in calculation errors.  For example, with this new software package, E&S can improve the accuracy of the life-saving Step & Touch Potentials by 10% to 50%. These Step & Touch calculations are critical in determining the safety measures required to protect personnel in high-voltage environments.

This new software is just another one of many recent acquisitions E&S has made over the past year, in meeting the requirements of its new Continuous Improvement Program.  Mr. Esparza continued by saying, “E&S intends to be the industry leader in our market place, staying several steps ahead of our competition.  Our goal is to have our competitors be the ones that are desperate to keep up, not the other way around.”