Incon

Intelligent Controls, Inc. (INCON) is a leading manufacturer of power and predictive maintenance products that provide on-line monitoring for hydroelectric plants, transformer load tap changers and power circuit breakers. The INCON product line offers solutions to reduce maintenance costs, optimize equipment utilization, and increase productivity.

Founded in February of 1978, INCON began as an electronic engineering consulting firm. A year later, the company expanded its focus to include systems engineering, and soon thereafter, INCON began developing and manufacturing its own products.

INCON is an ISO 9001 registered company

INCON's first product was developed for the power utility industry — a load tap position monitor for electrical transformers. This product was designed to help prevent overload by ensuring that load tap changers moved to the required taps as directed by the operator. Years later, INCON introduced a programmable load tap position monitor — the Model 1250 — which combined its existing experience in tap position monitoring with "intelligent" microprocessor technology.

To help predict maintenance intervals and to avoid premature maintenance or catastrophic failures, the OPTImizer power circuit breaker monitor was introduced to the power utility market in 1995. The OPTImizer featured continuous monitoring of wear and operation of the power circuit breaker. A year later, INCON continued to incorporate new technology and introduce the OPTImizer+. The OPTImizer+ provides continuous monitoring of wear and operation of the power circuit breaker to help predict optimum maintenance intervals and to avoid premature maintenance or catastrophic failures. The OPTImizer+ has breaker status and alarm indicators, complete data history of breaker operations, and enhanced communications capabilities for remote monitoring.