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VOL 33FEB 2013 - MAR 2013 ERL NEWSLETTERFOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION ONLY

The beginning of the new financial year

always spells new hopes, dreams and

aspirations

1st April 2013 was celebrated as New Accounts

Opening Day at ERL's Hosur Plant. It started with a

Ganesha Pooja at 9.30 A.M. in the presence of Mr. Raj

H Eswaran, Mr. S. Ravichander, Mr. K. Naghesha Rao

and Mr. J. Balasubramanian. After this, a New

Accounts Opening Pooja was held at the Finance

Department at Hosur. Our Finance Executives opened a

New Ledger Book for this new accounting year and

entered the first day business transactions.

Following the pooja, our Managing Director

Mr. Raj Eswaran made an inspiring speech on the

current business environment and stressed the need for

ERL Celebrates a Prosperous Beginning

with New Accounts Opening Day

ERL Celebrates a Prosperous Beginning

with New Accounts Opening Day

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cost reduction. During the happy occasion, he

presented the Long Service Awards to employees

who have completed 30 years and 10 years of

service in the company.

The IR & Admin team coordinated the entire

function and Mr. S. Sathyaseelan delivered the

vote of thnaks.

The total program went off very well

10K. R. T. NarayandossB. Kumaran G. Premnath

10 years service award recipients

ERL is proud to show its sincere appreciation to

those who have completed 30 years and 10

years of service in the company. We recognise

their hard work, dedication and effort.

The “Long Service Award” is our way of

honouring them and encouraging them to put in

many more fruitful years.

We all the recipients on heartily congratulate

their service and dedication.

at ourbest

R. LathaA. Jamuna S. Poyyamozhi B. SampathR. Jayaraman

K. Jabamalaimary, M. Arunachalam D.M. Ganesh V. GracyR. Arumugam

30 years service award recipients

Long Service Awards Recipients

Hearty Congratulations!

Long Service Awards Recipients

Hearty Congratulations!

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A new entrant to the ERL family is

always a happy occasion for us.

ERLPhase, Canada, is pleased to

welcome Mr. Anderson Oliveira as

a Field Applications Engineer in our

Te c h n i c a l S e r v i c e s G r o up .

Mr. Oliveira has over 10 years of

experience in power transmission

and distribution systems. He also

has rich experience in power

sys tems s tudies, design and

commissioning of protection &

control systems, as well as detailed

design of power plants and

substations. His role will include

areas of implementing training and

technical communication with

ERLPhase customers, both in North

America and Latin America.

Prior to joining ERL Phase Power Technologies,

Mr. Oliveira was a Design Engineer for Genivar

in Toronto where he was involved in the

designing of generating stations, transformer

stations and distributed generators in

accordance to the technical interconnection

requirements of the owner of the power grid.

He has also worked as an Electrical Engineer for

CHESF, one of the largest utilities in Brazil,

co-ordinating and supervising implementation

of maintenance programs for substation

equipment.

Mr. Oliveira is a Professional Engineer,

registered in the Province of Ontario. He holds a

B.Sc. Degree in Electrical Engineering from the

University of Pernambuco, Brazil and he is

currently working on his M.Eng in Electrical

Engineering from the University of Waterloo.

Mr. Oliveira is fluent in both English &

Portuguese and can converse in Spanish as

well.

He enjoys working in partnership with

customers on technical planning to choose

appropriate power systems equipment.

He looks forward to the challenges ahead.

We wish him all the very best.

ERL Welcomes on Board

Mr. Anderson Oliveira

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A new application note titled “Evaluation of

L - P R O 4 0 0 0 R e l a y f o r E n d - To - E n d

Communication Using IEC 61850” was just

launched. This document evaluates L-PRO

4000's IEC 61850 GOOSE messaging

c a p a b i l i t i e s , a p p l i c a b l e t o s e v e r a l

communication-aided protection (Trip/Block)

schemes, such as Permissive Over-Reaching

Transfer Trip (POTT), a combination of POTT with

Weak Infeed (WI), Directional Comparison

Blocking (DCB) and Permissive Under-Reaching

Transfer Trip (PUTT). RFL IMUX 2000 multiplexers

with standard LAN bridge adapters (MA-427

units) were used as the interfacing device, and

testing was carried out with all the other standard

functionalities (protection, recording etc.)

enabled on the L-PRO 4000 relays.

This study concludes:

Using point-to-point serial connections

between relays with RFL IMUX multiplexers

operating at a 1536 Kbps bandwidth

results in a 61850 GOOSE message taking

an additional 2-4 ms transfer time.

When the RFL IMUX 2000 multiplexers

were loaded with traffic in addition to a

relay to relay line protection application,

the 61850 GOOSE messages between

these relays was delayed by 4-6 ms.

Using the RFL IMUX 2000 multiplexers with

the standard communication (just serial

inputs and outputs of the relays) results in

near zero delay in communication transfer

time. However, output contact operation

and digital input hardware delays in the

relays can add 6-8 ms (3-4 ms per relay) to

the total time delay between relays.

This app note will be useful to many users.

TechTalkTechTalk

Evaluation of L-PRO 4000

for End-To-End

Communication Using IEC 61850

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ERL Trains HVPNL Engineers on Substation Automation

ERL organised a comprehensive in-depth on-

site training program on "IEC 61850 based

Substation Automation Systems(SAS)" for the

benefit of Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam Ltd

(HVPNL) employees. The entire training

program was handled by Mr. Sanjay Jangra,

Dy. Manager-Service, Northern Region at their

customer premises, from 4th March to 8th

March, 2013.

The main objective of this training program

was to train the HVPNL employees to handle

independently the single point control at local

level and as well as remote operations through

SLDC of SAS.

Training included the various protection

schemes in power system for the benefit of

conventional substations as well as SAS.

There were large number of HVPNL employees

from operators to engineers level actively

participated in the training program. This was

well received by the participants and they

were very happy with our professional

approach. The feedback received from the

management was qui te posi t ive and

encouraging.

Congrats to Northern Region for

arranging such a wonderful training.

program


ERL’s 19" Rack Type CRP Shell Passes IP 55 Test at CPRI

Control & Relay Panel (CRP) is used in power

generation, sub-stations and industries for both

indoor and outdoor application. Most of these

panel shells are fabricated at ERL Harohalli and

the final assembly of all CRP is done at ERL Hosur

unit.

Rack Type CRP come with adjustable racks. This

offers a great deal of flexibility for assembly of

relays, meters and lamps at different positions.

There is a great demand for these products from

customers. The recent orders received by Hosur

unit is for 60% of this type of panels out of the

total CRP orders.

Now we are proud to announce that we started manufacturing 19" Rack Type CRP Shell (welded

type) at our Harohalli factory situated near

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Bangalore. The product has successfully passed

the IP 55 test. This test was conducted and

certified by Central Power Research Institute

(CPRI) Bangalore on 2nd April 2013.

As defined in the international standard IEC

60529, the IP 55 Test classifies the degrees of

protection provided against the intrusion of solid

objects (including body parts like hands and

fingers), dust, accidental contact, and water in

electrical enclosures. The standard aims to

provide users more detailed information than

vague marketing terms such as waterproof. IP

means Insulation Protection. First Digit: 5 -Dust

protected - Ingress of dust is not entirely prevented,

but it must not enter in sufficient quantity to

interfere with the satisfactory operation of the

equipment; complete protection against contact.

Second Digit: 5 -Water jets -Water projected by a

nozzle (6.3mm) against enclosure from any

direction shall have no harmful effects.Test

duration: at least 3 minutes. Water volume: 12.5 2litres per minute. Pressure: 30 kN/m ² at distance

of 3m.

There were several stringent tests conducted at

CPRI. This included subjecting the panel to IP5X

Dust & IPX5 water tests including meggor & 2

kV/1min before and after tests. The test was

conducted in response to customer demands for

panel protection. This is carried out on panels

produced through the normal production process

in the shop floor. We can produce 8 panels per

shift with this existing setup.

This is the first time that an IP test of a Control and

Relay Panel has been done for a product which

was exclusively designed and manufactured in

ERL Harohalli. The volume demand is huge and

the forecast is more than 200 CRP panels per

month. We look forward to a jump in sales soon.

We heartily congratulate the team

instrumental for such initiative.


Stress Management Program at ERL

High levels of stress can impair productivity and

bring down the quality of life. ERL is committed to

helping their employees lead happy and healthy

lives.

A recent initiative in this direction was a full day

training programme on "Mastering Stress Thru

Yoga" at our Hosur factory. This was conducted

for mid–level executives by Mr.Sridhar Deshmukh,

a renowned yoga practitioner

He has impressive credentials. He is an

experiential learner of his own apart from formal

studies in Allopathic Medicine, Anatomy &

Physiology, Pharmacology, Physics and

C o s m o l o g y b e s i d e s P s y c h o l o g y a n d

Philosophical Literature. He has conducted

orientation courses in Therapeutic Yoga for

doctors besides training over a hundred yoga and

alternative therapists. He has also conducted over

two hundred workshops on Stress Management

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as well as Preventive Management of Coronary

Heart Disease for corporate executives and

professionals.

The executives went through a series of theoretical

and practical sessions consisting of Energizer

exercises, Integrated Breathing & Stretching,

Pranayama, Relaxation Techniques and learnt

about different types of diet and its impact.

All the participants were positive and they felt that

the learnings could help in going a long way in

maintaining personal health and were even eager

to have a part-time yoga facility on campus.

Time Management Program For Better Performance

Time is a critical resource that has to be managed

well to achieve optimum results. ERL conducted a

training program on “Time Management” for

junior engineers, mid-level engineers and

executives at the Hosur unit.

The program was handled by Vadiraj who has

over 28 years of rich experience in the banking

and financial service businesses, of which over

12 years was in the area of training. His career

graph includes being Assistant General Manager

of HCL Technology and a stint with Punjab

National Bank followed by a prestigious

assignment as Associate Vice President, Training

at ING Vysya Bank. He has also created or

enhanced over 150 workshop and self-study

programs.

The “Time Management” Workshop was highly

interactive. Participants were asked to complete a

series of activities and collect some data before

they settled down to the workshop. Based on the

data, they were taught tips, tricks and tools to

handle time effectively.

The key points of the workshop were to:

Achieve better results through more effective

planning and clarifying objectives

Spend more time doing tasks that will allow

you to achieve your end goals

Say no to unreasonable requests

Understand personalities and how to handle

interpretations

Plan effectively and organize paper work

Gain a balance between professional goals

and personal time

Use time management tools more effectively

Set goals and prioritize them to determine if

activities are goal-directed

Apply a critical-path network system to

estimate time and activities required for

reaching objectives

Use less time putting out fires each day

Implement effective resource management

The participants found the workshop useful and

were quite confident that it would improve their

performance on all counts.


Women's Day Celebrations at ERL

International Women's Day was celebrated with a lot

of joy and camaraderie at ERL, on 8th and 16th

March, 2013, at Hosur and Bangalore, respectively.

The contribution of women to the family and

workplace were recognized. At ERL, Hosur all the 25

women employees participated in the celebrations

that were organized by the HR team. Plenty of fun

games and on the spot competitions were conducted.

Prizes were distributed to the winners.

ERL, Corporate office, Hulimavu had around 20

participants. They were divided into teams and on the

spot singing, a drawing competition with women as

the theme and a quiz on women achievers were

conducted. All participants were given gifts.

Mr. V. Ajith, Head- Automation Business was the

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judge for the competitions. Mr.Jayanta Kumar was the

Quiz Master and the MC was Mr.Balakumaran.

Mr.Rohit Kumar, Mr.Rajesh, Mr.Harsha and

Mr.Venkatesh were the organisers of the event.

ERL at Africa’s Largest Power Event

We are proud to have participated in Africa's

largest and most holistic power and energy

business event, “The Power & Electricity World

Africa Exhibition - 2013”. This was held from

9th to 10th April, 2013 at Sandton Convention

Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa.

This comprehensive exhibition demonstrated the

latest trends and technology, project updates

and news contributing to the sustainable future of

Agrica's power and energy sector. The High

Commissioner of India, His Excellency Mr.

Virendra Gupta inaugurated the Indian Pavilion.

The exhibition was a valuable platform for ERL to

get in touch with potential customers and spread

awareness of our products & solutions. We

showcased Relays & Recorders, Ring Main Unit,

Intelligent Solid Insulated Switchgear, Intelligent

Transformer Monitoring Unit, Merging Unit and

so on. A series of seminars and conferences

were held during the exhibi t ion. Our

participation was quite valuable as it generated

many new enquiries for Relays and Ring Main

Units.


ERL Launches New World Class Website

ER L’s webs i t e ha s go t a

contemporary new look. The

world class website provides

more content, in-depth updates

and has an easy to navigate

design. You can look for

information on any of our

products or solutions, take a look

at our corporate presentations,

check out our latest projects and

much more.

We invite you to visit us at

www.easunreyrolle.com

Just Launched

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What is the definition of a shock absorber?

Ans: A careless electrician.

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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: 33 - FEB 2013 - MAR 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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Easun Reyrolle Limited, Central Marketing Department, No.389, "Rasukumaki", Hulimavu,

Bannerghatta Road, Bangalore-560 076. India. Tel: +91 80 6717 7000

Fax: +91 80 6717 7002, Email: [email protected]

TESLA power system recorders are designed and manufactured in Canada by ERL Phase Power Technologies and well accepted

at North American utilities. ERLPhase and Easun Reyrolle are part of the ERL group of companies which has been

in the business of power system projects, protection, medium voltage switchgear and metering solutions for over 30 years.

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