Power transformer is one of the important equipment in the power system, and its safe operation directly affects the safety and reliability of the power supply system. However, in reality, China’s transformer quality decline problem has reached a very serious point. Transformer March 15, 2019 sampling 107 batches of power transformer products produced by 107 enterprises, found that 18 batches failed, the failure rate is as high as 16.8% . And the average failure rate of Chinese manufacturing is about 4%. These problems have triggered widespread concern throughout the industry and the community.

Dry-type transformers are widely used in commercial buildings, airports, subways, high-speed railways, residential communities, intelligent buildings, new energy projects, industrial manufacturing enterprises, etc. Since dry-type transformers are wrapped in epoxy resin, many manufacturing companies replace the copper windings inside the transformer with aluminum windings, thus gaining illegal profits. As the user is difficult to identify the transformer inside the winding is copper winding or aluminum winding, and illegal enterprises do not according to the standard regulations in the transformer label indicated “L” (indicating aluminum winding). Dry-type transformer this aluminum instead of copper phenomenon is very common, the consequences of which may lead to transformer burnt, explosion and other terrible consequences, and even a serious threat to the user’s property and life safety.

Transformer as a closely related to the public and all walks of life of high energy-using products, its quality problems are not limited to the industry itself, but on many industries and users have a huge impact. However, for the transformer aluminum instead of copper and nameplate counterfeiting, the current situation is the industry lack of opposition; users to protect their interests lack of sufficient legal basis; quality supervision departments lack of effective means of inspection, this constraints lead to the transformer aluminum instead of copper chain of interest continues to grow, and even to the point of almost unabated.

A recent court case, for the transformer aluminum instead of copper issue draws a “red line”. 2019 July 19, Liaoning Dandong Zhen’an City People’s Court ruled in the first instance that the defendant Zhang Mou because of the transformer in the substitution of aluminum for copper, guilty of production, sales of shoddy products, sentenced to nine months of fixed-term imprisonment, suspended for one year and a fine of RMB 60,000 yuan.

From the perspective of criminal cases, this case is not a major case, but the electrical industry is of great significance to the entire electrical industry, including electrical manufacturing enterprises, users, quality supervision bodies, the judicial system are very important reference significance.

First of all, the establishment of the boundaries of crime and non-crime

Transformer industry to substandard, aluminum instead of copper is a hazard to public safety, endangering the social and economic order of the crime, is currently one of China’s judicial focus on combating crime. However, in judicial practice, due to very few transformers with aluminum instead of copper criminal case law, crime and misdemeanor boundaries have not been effectively established. And this case is clear to tell the relevant personnel, transformer aluminum instead of copper will be criminalized.

Secondly, for the user to defend their rights and interests to provide a favorable weapon!

A large number of cases show that, due to the past crime and misdemeanor boundaries are not very clear, the user in the transformer to aluminum instead of copper, often in accordance with the quality of disputes within the method of negotiation to solve the problems involved in the supplier often take immediate replacement or refund and other ways of dealing with the civil claims method of compensation for compensation is not sufficient to allow the user to obtain the loss of the value of the compensation, which led to the majority of users to take a major event to a small treatment! Approach. With this case, users can bravely say “no” to the illegal enterprises, and better defend their rights and interests.

Again, the intervention of public prosecutors is conducive to combating criminal behavior.

In the case of Zhang, the public security organs in obtaining information on the relevant enterprises and responsible persons to take coercive measures in a timely manner, so as to obtain the case of conclusive evidence, the investigation and judgment of this case has played an important role. This case will have a cumulative demonstration effect on the handling of similar cases. The case shows that the aluminum instead of copper enterprise legal person will bear criminal liability, which has a general deterrent effect on the enterprise.

Fourth, for the quality inspection department to monitor the quality of transformers provide a strong backing

At present, the State Administration of Market Supervision has been the transformer as a key quality inspection products, but in the past the inspection of transformers are basically routine quality projects, transformers with aluminum instead of copper cases are not involved in-depth, I believe that this case will be conducive to promote the quality supervision departments to take strong measures to combat and stop this industrial crime.

In short, China’s industrial development experience and lessons learned show that any criminal behavior of industrial and mass-related products indulge, indulge, not only harm the interests of the majority of users, seriously disrupt the market economic order, constituting a serious damage to the credibility of China’s manufacturing quality. Therefore, it is necessary to clear up the root cause of such unlawful behavior and resolutely combat it, so as to return the transformer market to a clean land.