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prestigious U.S event held at San Diego DConvention 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 members of the working group responsible for IEC 350 speakers overall besides 21 Utility 61850. The presentation was good with active University courses. participation by the audience.

We always believe in making the most of industry The visitors to the show included those from opportunities and ERLPhase PowerTechnologies, diverse careers from electric utilities, water and Canada exhibited our Power System Recorder, gas utilities, rural electric co-op’s, municipalities Line Protection Relay, Bus Protection Relay, as well as other manufacturers of electrical Transformer Protection Relay, Sub-hormonic equipment. This is a large event which was quite Protection Relay and other products at broad so it’s a small subset of the attendees who DistribuTECH. At the conference, René Midence, were interested specifically in protection Director of Technical Services, presented "IEC equipment. Our participation in the show was a 61850 interoperability between recorders and big success and generated lot of leads.relays ", co-written with Hugo Davila and Nan

Zhang. The presentation room was almost full,

with about 40 to 50 attendants and some active

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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 & During Mr.Sandipan's past 20 year tennure, he

Service at Systronics Limited, Ahmedabad in handled Business development of electrical,

1991. Following this he moved up to become industrial and commmercial projects and

Senior Engineer at Larsen & Toubro where he products, sales & estimation, project & resource

spent a decade. He handled the Metering & planning, design validation & application,

Pro tec t ion Sys tems Div i s ion and h is engineering, project procurement & vendor

responsibilities included tendering, order management, project management, quality

booking, developing Schematics and SLDs, management etc.

p r o j e c t e xe cu t i o n , i n s t a l l a t i o n and

commissioning, revenue generation and We welcome Mr. Sandipan Chakravarthy once outstanding collection. more and are sure that he will make a valuable

contribution to our organization. We wish him all In 2005, he got his next big jump as Sr. Group

the very best.Manager- Energy Segment with Schneider Electric

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 &

A Warm Welcome for

Mr. Sandipan Chakravarthy


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TESLA 4000 Achieves IEC 61850 Certification

At ERL, we are happy to have reached a new (CIM/GID as per IEC 61970/61968) advanced

milestone. We have always focused on metering and demand response via OpenDR.

producing quality products that meet the

necessary specifications and requirements. The testing was done at Central Power Research

I n s t i t u t e (CPR I ) ,

We are pleased to announce that we have Bangalore.

received IEC 61850 Certification for the TESLA

4000 Power System Recorder from UCA Thanks to ERLPhase,

International Users Group,consisting of utility user Canada team for

and supplier companies that is dedicated to their support and

promoting the integration and interoperability of co-ordination for

electric/gas/water utility systems through the use successful testing at

of international standards based technology. 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.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.

ERLPhase booth at MIPSYCON: (left to right) Dave Fedirchuk,

Pat McMahon (Bergstorm-Verbarg), René Midence, Jim Wood.

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Fedders Lloyd Corp is a globally renowned to match the competition point by point and

company with a reputation for excellence and explained the pitfalls the customer may

quality. There are one of the major EPC located encounter. We made them feel that taking the

in New Delhi with site offices in many countries order was secondary while our primary task

especial ly in the African continent. was to help them understand the intricacies of

ERL Marketing International (ERL Mint) won the the CRP and substation Automation.

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. We believe that our USP has been giving the The ERL Mint and ERL team spent a lot of time to customer the exact requirement at a competitive research panel by panel going into the BOM price, offering the best in Relays and SAS and and eliminating all those items that were not meeting their stringent delivery schedules.necessary. In this process, the EPC realized The project will commence in March 2013 and what exactly was in store for them. We gave get completed in June 2013. We congratulate them just exactly what was needed. We agreed the teams who worked together to win this order

ERL Mint Wins Nigerian Order

From Fedders Lloyd Corp

ERL Mint Bags Papillon Power Order

Whenever a new customer enters our fold, support from our agent.

it's cause for celebration at ERL Mint. We have The scope of work is the

recently bagged an order from Papillon Power supply of 3nos RMU

Trading Co. WLL, Bahrain. The well-known and the end user will be

company has placed an order for 12kV Ring the Peninsular Farm.

Main Units (RMUs). We heartily congratulate The time frame is 10

the team who had worked out a unique strategy weeks. We are sure the

to win against strong contenders Lucy and team will do a fabulous

Schneider. Our winning edge was gaining job

project based approval from the Bahrain utility

EDD, projecting the right price and strong

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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.

T h e t e a m c o n s i s t i n g o f

Mr. A. Vishnuprasad (PSB-Assembly),

Mr. G. Sekar (Main tenance) ,

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.

ERL Teams Battle it Out

at the Quality Quiz

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ERL's Hosur Plant Wins State Safety Award

Labour Minister, Govt.of Tamilnadu to our

Execut ives Mr. I .K.Gomathisankar and

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 co-operation won us this award. We hope to

requirements.continue upholding safety norms

The State Safety Award was presented by the

ERL Employee Honoured by NHRD

The National HRD (NHRD) Network is an been fel ici tated with NHRD- Rathna

association of professionals Award2012, at the recently

committed to promoting the concluded Annual Meet of the

HRD movement in the NHRD Network, Hosur Chapter,

country and enhancing the for his exemplary contribution and

capabi l i t y o f human efforts to NHRD, as Joint Secretary.

resource professionals.We congratulate Mr. Satish Kumar

This is managed by HR fort his achievement ERL is a

professionals and has been permanent institutional member of

involved in many activities the NHRD - Hosur Chapter.

dedicated to enhancing and adding value to Mr. Satish Kumar K

human resources.

Mr. K. Satish Kumar of our HR Department has

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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 stage. We wish to sincerely thank the Manitoba

the manufacturing process and final testing of Hydro, for enabling a site tour where TESLA 4000

every unit assembled in the plant. 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

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.

Can be directly connected a serial printer for Its features are as follows: printing events

Highly modular in hardware and software

design

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.Ø

Ø High Speed Back Plane Architecture Ø User friendly Configuration tools for ease of

Configuration and ManagementØ Equipped with Real-Time Operating system

ØØ Equipped with various industrial protocol

stacks

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 We heartily thank everyone who participated in

products such as TESLA I/O unit and the iTMU this Users Group meeting. We plan to hold a few

Intelligent Transformer Management Unit with times each year in locations convenient for our

them.customers

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Ø 32-bit high performance RISC (Reduced Capacity

Instruction Set Computing) operating at >80 Ø Single rack supportingup to 208 inputs

MHz Core FrequencyØ Multiple rack expansion supported over

Ø MemoryEthernet

Ø SRAM (64bytes Internal and 2MB External)Ø Up to four racks can be stacked for better

Ø FLASH (512Kbytes) performance supporting 800 inputs

Ø On board 10/100Mbps Fast Ethernet Ø Up to 16 IEDs on Legacy RS485 bus for Controller optimum performance

Ø On board 5 serial I/Os (RS232 and RS485) Ø 1000 SOE record storage is supported in

Ø Add on parallel input chonological order

Ø +/- 1 msec I/O scanning resolution and time The major hardware components used are a

stampingCentral Processing Unit, Digital Input Module,

Power Supply Module and High Speed Back The modular architecture is customized to match Plane. each application and the result is better

performance and flexibility. Installation is quick The software features are as follows:

and easy and so is commissioning and testing. Communication Protocol

The software for parameter setting and testing has Standard IED Protocols

simple menus and programming can be done by Ø Modbus Master (RTU Serial) downloading files. Testing can be done both at

site and remotely.Standard SCADA Protocols

Ø IEC 60870-5-101 Slave (Serial) We can retro-fit the Event Logger of any make in

400/ 220/ 132 kV utility sub-stations. This can Ø IEC 60870-5-101 Slave (TCP/IP)

also be applied successfully to captive power Ø DNP 3.0 Slave (Serial)generation plants, hydro-electric plants and other

Standard Time Synchronization Protocolsindustry segments.

Ø IR IG-B (BNC Connector-Ampli tude

Modualted

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 My Role Model

Category C Category D

IV, V, VI VII, VIII, IX

1st Place: A. Jenci Susan D/o Augustine Jebaraj 1st Place: S. Madhumitha D/o S. V. Sriram

2nd Place: M. L. Sujida D/o S. Murali 2nd Place: C. A. Varun S/o Uma Anand

3rd Place: Surya Prakash S/o P. Kesavan 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.

Ms. Swetha was the MC for the event.

Mrs. Kalarani welcomed the gathering and

introduced the judges. Mr. S. V. Sriram, Mr. Ravi Kumar, Art Teacher, Govt. School, Mr. V. Ajith, Mr. G. Ilango , and the Judges gave Perandapalli and Mrs. Vijayalakshmi, Principal, away the prizes to the participants and the Maharishi Vidya Mandir Higher Secondary winners Mr. B. Buvanesh Kumar delivered the vote School, Hosur, were invited as the judges for the of thanks. This event was a grand success.event.

“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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readers take based on the information presented. The views presented here in are those of the authors/contributors and are not necessarily the views of ERL.

The organization does not accept any liability whatsoever nor do they accept responsibility for any financial or legal consequences arising from the use of the

information provided herein.


ERL News - Vol No: 32 - DEC 2012

Edited & Published by S. Vaidyanathan, Easun Reyrolle Ltd,

Bannerghatta Road, Bangalore-560 076. India. E-mail:

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