Vol: 32 DEC : JAN 2013

ERL NEWS
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ERLPHASE ACTIVE AT DISTRIBUTECH
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istributech-2013 was the largest and most
prestigious U.S event held at San Diego
Convention Center, San Diego, California,
between January 29-31, 2013. It covered the
smart grid from-end-to-end, including automation
and control systems, energy efficiency, demand
response, renewable energy integration,
advanced metering, T&D system operation and
reliability, power delivery equipment and water
utility technology.
The conference held annually at various US
locations, featured 14 conference tracks, 78
conference sessions, over135 utility speakers and
350 speakers overall besides
21 Utility
University courses.
We always believe in making the most of industry
opportunities and ERLPhase PowerTechnologies,
Canada exhibited our Power System Recorder,
Line Protection Relay, Bus Protection Relay,
Transformer Protection Relay, Sub-hormonic
Protection Relay and other products
at
DistribuTECH. At the conference, René Midence,
Director of Technical Services, presented "IEC
61850 interoperability between recorders and
relays ", co-written with Hugo Davila and Nan
Zhang. The presentation room was almost full,
with about 40 to 50 attendants and some active
members of the working group responsible for IEC
61850. The presentation was good with active
participation by the audience.
The visitors to the show included those from
diverse careers from electric utilities, water and
gas utilities, rural electric co-op’s, municipalities
as well as other manufacturers of electrical
equipment. This is a large event which was quite
broad so it’s a small subset of the attendees who
were interested specifically in protection
equipment. Our participation in the show was a
big success and generated lot of leads.
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A Warm Welcome for
Mr. Sandipan Chakravarthy
The ERL family warmly welcomes Mr. Sandipan
Chakravarthy into the fold as Head-Sales &
Marketing (Eastern Region), ERL. Dynamic and
foresighted with a clear vision, he brings in over
20 years of rich experience.
He has strong credentials. He started out with a
Diploma in Electronics Engineering from
“Bangalore Board of Technical Education”.
He followed it up with the Advance Leadership
Program from “XLRI Jamshedpur”, ISO Internal
Auditor Certification and PMC training by Project
Management Institute, US.
Wilson. Following this, he has joined ERL.
He started his career as Jr. Engineer – Sales &
Service at Systronics Limited, Ahmedabad in
1991. Following this he moved up to become
Senior Engineer at Larsen & Toubro where he
spent a decade. He handled the Metering &
Protection
Systems
Division
and
his
responsibilities included tendering, order
booking, developing Schematics and SLDs,
project
execution,
installation
and
During Mr.Sandipan's past 20 year tennure, he
handled Business development of electrical,
industrial and commmercial projects and
products, sales & estimation, project & resource
planning, design validation & application,
engineering, project procurement & vendor
management, project management, quality
management etc.
commissioning, revenue generation and
We welcome Mr. Sandipan Chakravarthy once
outstanding collection.
more and are sure that he will make a valuable
In 2005, he got his next big jump as Sr. Group
Manager- Energy Segment with Schneider Electric
contribution to our organization. We wish him all
the very best.
India, Kolkata following which he moved to
Regional Manager- Electrical Operation
(East Zone) at Voltas, Kolkata. He then had a stint
as General Manager- Electrical with Sterling &
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TESLA 4000 Achieves IEC 61850 Certification
At ERL, we are happy to have reached a new
milestone. We have always focused on
producing quality products that meet the
necessary specifications and requirements.
We are pleased to announce that we have
received IEC 61850 Certification for the TESLA
4000 Power System Recorder from UCA
International Users Group,consisting of utility user
and supplier companies that is dedicated to
promoting the integration and interoperability of
electric/gas/water utility systems through the use
of international standards based technology.
(CIM/GID as per IEC 61970/61968) advanced
metering and demand response via OpenDR.
The testing was done at Central Power Research
Institute (CPRI),
Bangalore.
Thanks to ERLPhase,
Canada team for
their support and
co-ordination for
successful testing at
CPRI.
It is a User Group for IEC 61850, the common
Information Model - Generic Interface Definition
Fall Trade shows – WPRC & MIPSYCON
were a Smart Move
ERL made a mark in October by exhibiting at the
Western Protective Relay Conference (Spokane,
Washington). René Midence, Director of
Technical Services presented the paper
"Sub-Harmonic Protection Application for
Interconnections of Series Compensated Lines
and Wind Farms”. This helped us refresh our
relationships with customers in this region.
It proved to be a smart move as many customers
showed interest in the S-PRO Sub-Harmonic
protection relay.
ERLPhase booth at MIPSYCON: (left to right) Dave Fedirchuk,
Pat McMahon (Bergstorm-Verbarg), René Midence, Jim Wood.
presented the paper "Calculating the Loadability
In November, our team exhibited at the Minnesota
of Distance Relays". Both these shows had a very
Power Systems Conference and René Midence
good response.
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ERL Mint Wins Nigerian Order
From Fedders Lloyd Corp
Fedders Lloyd Corp is a globally renowned
company with a reputation for excellence and
quality. There are one of the major EPC located
in New Delhi with site offices in many countries
especially in the African continent.
ERL Marketing International (ERL Mint) won the
huge order for the supply and commissioning of
148 Control & Relay Panels from 33 to 330kV
with Substation Automation System for the
Power Holding Company of Nigeria through
Fedders Lloyds Corp Ltd. The order is worth
3 Million USD
ERL Mint had to compete with Siemens and
NARI to bag this order. Fedders Lloyd may be a
new customer but will be a permanent one.
We had consistently worked to bag this order.
The ERL Mint and ERL team spent a lot of time to
research panel by panel going into the BOM
and eliminating all those items that were not
necessary. In this process, the EPC realized
what exactly was in store for them. We gave
them just exactly what was needed. We agreed
to match the competition point by point and
explained the pitfalls the customer may
encounter. We made them feel that taking the
order was secondary while our primary task
was to help them understand the intricacies of
the CRP and substation Automation.
We believe that our USP has been giving the
customer the exact requirement at a competitive
price, offering the best in Relays and SAS and
meeting their stringent delivery schedules.
The project will commence in March 2013 and
get completed in June 2013. We congratulate
the teams who worked together to win this order
ERL Mint Bags Papillon Power Order
Whenever a new customer enters our fold,
it's cause for celebration at ERL Mint. We have
recently bagged an order from Papillon Power
Trading Co. WLL, Bahrain. The well-known
company has placed an order for 12kV Ring
Main Units (RMUs). We heartily congratulate
the team who had worked out a unique strategy
to win against strong contenders Lucy and
Schneider. Our winning edge was gaining
project based approval from the Bahrain utility
EDD, projecting the right price and strong
support from our agent.
The scope of work is the
supply of 3nos RMU
and the end user will be
the Peninsular Farm.
The time frame is 10
weeks. We are sure the
team will do a fabulous
job
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ERL Teams Battle it Out
at the Quality Quiz
An Audio Visual Quiz on quality was
conducted at the Hosur unit of ERL on the
special day 12.12.12. We had 5 teams
comprising 5 members each drawn from
different functions. The event was spread
across three rounds. The first one was a
multiple choice question. The second was role
play where each team was given a quality
concept as their topic and 5 minutes to present
it in the form of a role play. This gave us
amazing insights into different quality
concepts and the participants displayed
immense talent in execution.
The third round was a audio visual round
where a random visual was played and
each team had to interpret what quality
concept was hidden in the visual
displayed. The participants involved
themselves enthusiastically and came up
with wonderful and creative answers to
each question thrown at them.
The team consisting of
Mr. A. Vishnuprasad (PSB-Assembly),
M r. G . S e k a r ( M a i n t e n a n c e ) ,
Mr. C. Satish Kumar (PSB – Tendering),
Mr. K. Ravichandran (SWG Operations) emerged as winners after
beating the tough competition.
Mrs. R. Mathuravani, Mr. A. Raja and
Mrs. M. Kalarani were the judges.
The quiz masters were Mr. K. Satish
Kumar and Mr. B. Buvanesh Kumar from
the HR team. Mr. R. Yogeshwar Rao was
the official scorer. The quiz was a huge
success.
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ERL's Hosur Plant Wins State Safety Award
Labour Minister, Govt.of Tamilnadu to our
E x e c u t i v e s M r. I . K . G o m a t h i s a n k a r a n d
Mr.S.Jagan of IR & Admin who represented ERL.
This was done at a glittering event held at
Chennai on 19th Dec'2012. The Chief Inspector
of Factories, Tamilnadu State Mr.Ayyanu and
Dy.Chief Inspector of Factories, Hosur
Mr.Jagadeesan also participated.
We thank everyone whose valuable efforts and
We are proud and happy to share that ERL's
Hosur Plant has won the prestigious State Safety
Award - First Prize for the year 2009. We have
always given a strong thrust to Safety
Compliance and best safety procedures during
the daily routine. The result is that no major
accidents or incidents occurred throughout
2009. A Safety Audit and Inspection was
performed by the State Factory Inspectorate,
Tamilnadu and we had fully met their
requirements.
The State Safety Award was presented by the
co-operation won us this award. We hope to
continue upholding safety norms
ERL Employee Honoured by NHRD
The National HRD (NHRD) Network is an
association of professionals
committed to promoting the
HRD movement in the
country and enhancing the
capability of human
resource professionals.
This is managed by HR
professionals and has been
involved in many activities
dedicated to enhancing and adding value to
human resources.
Mr. K. Satish Kumar of our HR Department has
been
felicitated with NHRD- Rathna
Award2012, at the recently
concluded Annual Meet of the
NHRD Network, Hosur Chapter,
for his exemplary contribution and
efforts to NHRD, as Joint Secretary.
We congratulate Mr. Satish Kumar
fort his achievement ERL is a
permanent institutional member of
the NHRD - Hosur Chapter.
Mr. Satish Kumar K
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Transelectric Team From Ecuador Visits ERL
It was a big privilege for ERL to host the team of
engineers from Transelectric who visited our
Winnipeg office to conduct Factory
Acceptance Tests, which they will be installing
at various substations, this spring. Their visit
included a visual inspection of the TESLA
4000 units, a factory tour to verify ISO quality
processes. It also included basic but very
detailed product training, demonstration of
the manufacturing process and final testing of
every unit assembled in the plant.
stage. We wish to sincerely thank the Manitoba
Hydro, for enabling a site tour where TESLA 4000
units (as well as TESLA 3000s and 2000s) have
They were extremely happy with the product
been installed and providing valuable data for
quality and this project moving to installation
several years.
Colorado Seminars Put ERL
Products in the Spotlight
ERL regularly connects with prospective customers
through seminars. We had recently conducted
seminars in Denver. These were well-organized
by ERLPhase and Energy Reps, our sales partner
in that area and had a large number of
participants.
For those interested, but could not attend,
we would be glad to offer a web-based seminar
too.
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Customers Loved The TESLA Users Group Meeting
Following the MIPSYCON show, ERLPhase held a
one day TESLA Users Group Meeting on
November 8th in Minneapolis. This meeting plays
a key role in helping customers to gather to learn
and share their experiences with our products.
The group shared their technical experiences
about specific settings and record analysis,
expanding TESLA's use within present
applications, and exchanged application
knowledge about specific applications including
generating stations and wind farms. It was also
instrumental in helping us share our progress
about software plans and introduction of new
products such as TESLA I/O unit and the iTMU
Intelligent Transformer Management Unit with
them.
We heartily thank everyone who participated in
this Users Group meeting. We plan to hold a few
times each year in locations convenient for our
customers
Stand alone Event Logger - ER1000 - a new version
The Event Logger is a high capacity sequence of
events (SoE) recorder which can be used to take
the diverse and large quantity of inputs in a Power
Plant, Industry or EHV Transmission Substations.
ER 1000 is rugged type tested product suitable for
EHV environments. Reliability has been a key
consideration throughout the development of
ER1000. The unit is self-monitoring and in the
unlikely event of a malfunction, this is reported to
the local station at the first possible opportunity.
Its features are as follows:
Ø High Speed Back Plane Architecture
Ø Equipped with Real-Time Operating system
Ø Equipped with various industrial protocol
stacks
Ø Can be directly connected a serial printer for
printing events
Ø User friendly Configuration tools for ease of
Configuration and Management
Ø Highly modular in hardware and software
design
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Ø 32-bit high performance RISC (Reduced
Instruction Set Computing) operating at >80
MHz Core Frequency
Ø Memory
Ø SRAM (64bytes Internal and 2MB External)
Capacity
Ø Single rack supportingup to 208 inputs
Ø Multiple rack expansion supported over
Ethernet
Ø FLASH (512Kbytes)
Ø Up to four racks can be stacked for better
performance supporting 800 inputs
Ø On board 10/100Mbps Fast Ethernet
Controller
Ø Up to 16 IEDs on Legacy RS485 bus for
optimum performance
Ø On board 5 serial I/Os (RS232 and RS485)
Ø 1000 SOE record storage is supported in
chonological order
Ø Add on parallel input
The major hardware components used are a
Central Processing Unit, Digital Input Module,
Power Supply Module and High Speed Back
Plane.
The software features are as follows:
Communication Protocol
Standard IED Protocols
Ø Modbus Master (RTU Serial)
Standard SCADA Protocols
Ø IEC 60870-5-101 Slave (Serial)
Ø IEC 60870-5-101 Slave (TCP/IP)
Ø DNP 3.0 Slave (Serial)
Standard Time Synchronization Protocols
Ø IRIG-B (BNC
Modualted
Connector-Amplitude
Ø +/- 1 msec I/O scanning resolution and time
stamping
The modular architecture is customized to match
each application and the result is better
performance and flexibility. Installation is quick
and easy and so is commissioning and testing.
The software for parameter setting and testing has
simple menus and programming can be done by
downloading files. Testing can be done both at
site and remotely.
We can retro-fit the Event Logger of any make in
400/ 220/ 132 kV utility sub-stations. This can
also be applied successfully to captive power
generation plants, hydro-electric plants and other
industry segments.
Ø SCADA Protocol Based (IEC 101 / 104,
DNP 3.0 Slaves
A wide range of Communication media is
supported with options such as:
Ø Leased line modem
Ø Dial-up PSTN modem
Ø CDMA/GPRS/GSM modules
Ø Fiber optic interface
Ø Interface for connection to PLCC, radios
satellite etc
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Drawing Competition Showcases Talent
ERL conducted a drawing competition for
employees’ children at the Hosur unit campus on
25th December. The event was divided into 5
categories based on grades and we received
around 93 entries. The children displayed
amazing creativity in portraying their given topics
with colours and sketches. The winners were as
follows.
Painting and Colouring
My School
Category A
Category B
Pre-KG, LKG, UKG
I , II, III
1st Place: S. G. Lekhashree D/o R. Subramani
1st Place: M. Aaliya Falak D/o Mohammed Rafi
2nd Place: K. R. Vivek S/o K. R. Rudrappa
2nd Place: R. C. Bamithah D/o R. Ravi Kumar
3rd Place: A. P. Sharvesh S/o M. Paramasivam
3rd Place: R. Jothika D/o K. Ravichandran
Nature
Category C
IV, V, VI
1st Place: A. Jenci Susan D/o Augustine Jebaraj
2nd Place: M. L. Sujida D/o S. Murali
3rd Place: Surya Prakash S/o P. Kesavan
My Role Model
Category D
VII, VIII, IX
1st Place: S. Madhumitha D/o S. V. Sriram
2nd Place: C. A. Varun S/o Uma Anand
3rd Place: S. Raghul S/o M. Senthilnathan
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My Dream
Category E
X, XI and XII
1st Place: K. R. Divya Bharathi D/o A. K. Raju
2nd Place: M. Divya D/o M. Muthupaiyan
3rd Place: M. Pavithra D/o P. Madhiyan
A game of Housie was conducted for parents
while their wards participated in the competition.
Mr. Ravi Kumar, Art Teacher, Govt. School,
Perandapalli and Mrs. Vijayalakshmi, Principal,
Maharishi Vidya Mandir Higher Secondary
School, Hosur, were invited as the judges for the
event.
Ms. Swetha was the MC for the event.
Mrs. Kalarani welcomed the gathering and
introduced the judges.
Mr. S. V. Sriram,
Mr. V. Ajith, Mr. G. Ilango , and the Judges gave
away the prizes to the participants and the
winners Mr. B. Buvanesh Kumar delivered the vote
of thanks. This event was a grand success.
“What do you do with the burned out bulbs?"
"We send them to Kodak."
"What do they do with them?"
"They use them in their darkrooms."
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ERL News - Vol No: 32 - DEC 2012 - JAN 2013
Edited & Published by S. Vaidyanathan, Easun Reyrolle Ltd, No.389, "Rasukumaki", Hulimavu,
Bannerghatta Road, Bangalore-560 076. India. E-mail: [email protected]
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