AI for generator dealers, tested on spec quotes and compliance files you already closed.

The trade trains its own people. The Electrical Generating Systems Association describes itself as the world's largest organization devoted only to on-site power generation. Its more than 500 member companies include distributors and dealers, service firms, contractors and integrators, consulting and specifying engineers, and end users, and it offers generator technician certifications and a load bank certification of its own. Those are the people on either end of this work: the ones who write a section and the ones who later have to show what was tested.

A section can decide who may quote. Chicago Public Schools' generator section wants authorized service facilities within 50 miles of the project and a factory-trained service department with at least ten years of documented round-the-clock experience. The University of Maryland, Baltimore wants the installer no more than two hours' normal travel from the site and available around the clock. A 2024 section in the City of Spring Lake Park, Minnesota's meeting materials draws its line at an authorized service organization inside a 30-mile radius. Your sales engineer reads lines like these before a quote exists, and every closed project shows how they were read.

The sale can hand you the first service year. Northwestern University's 2017 generator section includes 12 months of full maintenance from substantial completion, with monthly exercising and a yearly load bank test. A quote built from that section starts the very record your service desk will assemble a year later, so the two jobs share a good part of their paper.

Hospitals answer to a federal rule and the standards it names. Under 42 CFR 482.15(e), a hospital has to carry out the emergency power inspection, testing and maintenance requirements in the Health Care Facilities Code, NFPA 110 and the Life Safety Code, and a hospital with fuel on site needs a plan for keeping emergency power running through an emergency unless it evacuates. Where your company does that testing, the record starts on your service tickets. We name public rules here to describe the work; nothing on this page is legal, regulatory or engineering advice.

Water and public buyers add machines and forms. Texas has public water systems serving 1,000 connections or more test and maintain generators to Level 2 maintenance requirements in NFPA 110, and gives smaller systems a monthly checklist instead. A 2014 request for proposals from the City of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, for one annual service contract, lists 37 emergency generator systems across its wastewater, water, public works, police, fire and school departments, on diesel, natural gas and propane, with ratings listed from 5 kW to 750 kW. One customer, 37 sets of records.

Your closed work already holds the answers. A quote your sales engineer built shows what a draft should have pulled from the section, and a file your service manager sent shows what a complete year looks like. One limit covers both jobs. The test never touches your service system, a generator controller, a live quote or a live compliance file, and it never sizes a generator, judges a test result or signs a report. A sales engineer approves every quote and a service manager sends every file. Out of scope: defense and aerospace.