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July 20, 2010
ERLPhase Announces IEC 61850 Certification for L-PRO Transmission Line Protection Relay
ERLPhase Power Technologies, a provider of easy-to-use protection relays and digital fault recorders, today announced IEC 61850 protocol certification of its L-PRO 4000 Transmission Line Protection Relay. Issued by the Central Power Research Institute of India, this independent assessment is based on the UCA International Users Group Device Test Procedures.
ERLPhase will offer the IEC 61850 Station Bus protocol (8-1) as a standard feature on its 4000 Series relays and recorders, being released later this year.
"We're very proud of this certification and of the standards-compliant approach we’ve always followed in our platform design," said René Midence, Business Unit Manager for Protection Products at ERLPhase. "As we look forward to a new generation of Substation Automation IEDs, commitment to certifications like IEC 61850 is essential for the benefit of our industry as a whole."
In response to growing proprietary protocols, the IEC 61850 standard was developed to ensure interoperability of substation automation devices. Beginning in 1995, an IEC project group of about 60 members from different countries worked in 3 IEC working groups to create a single protocol which would: define basic services required to transfer data in the future, promote interoperability between vendor systems, standardize on a common format for data storage, and define testing requirements for conformance to the standard.
Link to full press release.
Link to L-PRO IEC 61850 Certificate.
June 21, 2010
ERLPhase Expands ISO 9001:2008 Certification
ERLPhase Power Technologies is pleased to announce we have been awarded a renewal of ISO 9001:2008 certification, including an expansion of scope to include Manufacturing processes. This certification covers the major processes ERLPhase has developed to ensure quality for our customers, including assembly, test, receiving inspection, equipment calibration, supplier selection and supplier review. Based on an external ISO audit by Intertek, the auditor found no non-conformities and noted a team environment that embraces our Quality System. Quality for our customers is a cornerstone of our company culture, and is considered a personal responsibility of all employees.
ERLPhase Quality Management Principles:
- Customer focus
- Leadership
- Involvement of people
- Process approach
- System approach to management
- Continual improvement
- Factual approach to decision making
- Mutually beneficial supplier relationship
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June 17, 2010
ESAM's Smart Grid Conference A Success
ERLPhase Power Technologies is a proud member of ESAM, and part of an organizing committee for the recent "Smart Grid: From Concept to Reality" conference. On behalf of everyone at the ESAM member companies, we wish to thank the many delegates, sponsors, exhibitors, and world-class speakers who made this first-ever conference such a success. By all accounts, it was a thought-provoking day packed with insights from a diverse range of speakers.
May 2010
Welcome René Midence, Business Manager - Protection Products
For over 25 years, Mr. Midence has been involved in the design and commissioning of power substations and power plants including Protection and Control, SCADA, Substation Automation and Substation LAN systems. His well-rounded experience covers the fields of consulting and engineering, construction and commissioning, manufacturing and training.
Most recently, Mr. Midence was the VP of Marketing at RuggedCom Inc. Prior to that he worked for GE Multilin for 10 years in progressive positions in Sales, Service, Marketing, and New Product Introduction. Mr. Midence also worked at Klohn Crippen Consulting as Senior Electrical Designer responsible for the design and commissioning of several power plants in Canada and overseas, including the expansion of the largest Hydroelectric Plant in Thailand. In the manufacturing business, he has worked in the design and testing of medium and high voltage substations as well as metalclad switchgear, and protection and control panels.
Prior to immigrating to Canada in 1988, Mr. Midence worked for the national utility of Honduras as an Electrical Engineer where he played an important role in the design, construction and commissioning of the El Cajon, the country’s largest hydroelectric plant. Mr. Midence was the founder of CENCAP, the training center of the national telecommunications company of Honduras. He also worked for the University of Honduras where he taught in the faculties of Mathematical Science, Electrical and Civil Engineering.
Mr. Midence is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), member of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) TC57 WG10, and member of the UCA International Users Group where he has contributed in the marketing of the IEC61850 Users Community. He serves on the Advisory Committee for DistribuTECH and the Utility Products Conference and Exhibition. Mr. Midence has written and presented papers at several trade shows including IEEE Concapan and Mexico, DistribuTECH, Substation Automation in India, TechAdvantage, Smart Grid Road Show, T&D Europe, and UTC Telecom. Mr. Midence graduated from the University of Honduras with a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Electrical and Industrial Engineering.
Based in Ontario, Canada, Mr. Midence can be reached at rmidence@erlphase.com.
February 2010
iSIS Solid Insulated Switchgear Wins Best Product Award at Elecrama 2010
Elecrama, in Mumbai, India, is among the world's largest exhibitions of T&D equipment. This year's show was no exception and we at ERLPhase were excited that a partner company won best product of the year for their iSIS Solid Insulated Switchgear. The innovative iSIS was developed by Switchcraft Europe in Germany, which is a subsidiary of Easun Reyrolle.
December 2009
Welcome Milton (Mack) Vaughn, Applications Engineering Manager
With over 34 years experience in the electric power industry, Mr. Vaughn is highly experienced working hands-on with a variety of industry relays in utility settings. Most recently he was a system protection engineer at GST Power Service Group, and before that a relay test engineer at Megger. Mr. Vaughn's experience includes 2.5 years as an applications specialist with Schweitzer Engineering Labs, and 20 years in relaying at Oklahoma Gas and Electric where he commissioned new construction at transmission substations, performed relay setting/maintenance, performed fault analysis, and supervised a 16 technician relay department. Mr. Vaughn served 4 years as an air traffic control radar repairman with the US Air Force. His education includes Engineering Technology at Rose State College, the US Air Force Radar School, and a range of protection-related industry courses.
Mr. Vaughn's depth of experience will be invaluable to the ERLPhase applications engineering team, and to our customers as they plan and implement their evolving protection systems.
November 2009
ERLPhase Expands Latin American Team
 We are extremely pleased to welcome Ricardo Fernandez as our Regional Sales Manager for Latin America, Central America and Mexico. Based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Mr. Fernandez brings 20 years of experience in technical commercial sales for utilities and industrial customers. He led sales and marketing for EATON/Saturnia Sistemas de Energia, a Brazilian battery technology company. Before that, he worked for 8 years leading the South American presence for Weidmann, a Swiss company specializing in electrical insulation, as well as protection, monitoring and accessories for transformers. And before that, Mr. Fernandez developed his career with years in business management and sales of electrical equipment (including distribution/power transformers, circuit breakers, switchgear, instrument transformers, substations, turn-key projects and protection/monitoring systems) at ABB, Alstom/Areva and Siemens.
Mr. Fernandez has a FGV CEO Internacional degree, an MBA from the University of California, and an Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Santos.
With a career's commitment to quality and building of long-term utility and industry relationships, Mr. Fernandez will fit in well with the team at ERLPhase. He will work very closely with Hugo Davila, Regional Technical Manager for Latin America, Central America and Mexico, to support our customers in this area.
 July 2009
First shipment of 4000 series Relays
ERLPhase took the next step on its journey of continuous innovation with the first shipment of the 4000 series Relays on 31st July 2009. These B-PRO 4000 Relays were built on the new hardware platform at the Winnipeg, Canada facility.
July 2009
ERLPhase Power Technologies is now an ISO 9001:2008 QMS Certified Organization
ERLPhase's quality management system has been assessed and registered by Intertek Testing Services NA as conforming to ISO 9001:2008 QMS requirements for design, distribution and service of relays and recorders for the power industry.
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May 2009
Introducing the 4000 series of Protective Relays and Recorders
ERLPhase Power Technologies Ltd has been known for its innovative user friendly products right from its origins as APT and later as the Relay and Recorder division of NxtPhase Corporation. Electrical Utilities in the Americas have found our TESLA DFR and Protective Relays extremely easy to set and use, and the intuitive software easy to understand.
We have pioneered innovative solutions such as transformer loss of life monitoring in our T-PRO transformer protection relay, dynamic swing recording in our L-PRO transmission line protection relay, and using low impedance current inputs in our B-PRO Bus protection relays. All these innovations now find wide spread application in the protective relays industry.
In our TESLA DFR we have pioneered the use of dynamic swing record capture with cross triggering and are a leader in the development of PMU and CDR for Power System Monitoring.
Now, as a part of a global manufacturing and marketing organization, we are introducing the 4000 series of products which are:
- built on a contemporary new fully type tested substation hardened hardware platform
- powered by a new processor
- embedded with IEC 61850 station bus communication protocol
- with enhanced user configurable DNP mapping list
With this we have taken another step towards our mission of "using the best in class technology to relentlessly provide Smart Solutions for our customers' power system protection, monitoring and control needs"
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