WATERTOWN, Mass., Sept. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- As the primary
line of defense for our electric power grid, it's essential to
understand and regularly assess the health of circuit breakers in
order to ensure the safe, reliable delivery of power.
However, shrinking budgets and demand for increased capacity are
putting significant pressure on those operating and maintaining
substations and switch-gear assets, making it more challenging than
ever to keep circuit breakers operating reliably.
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To meet the needs of utility and electric power industry
maintenance professionals, Doble Engineering Company will host this
year's annual Finepoint Circuit Breaker Test & Maintenance
Training Conference, Oct. 7-10, in
Atlanta, GA. Doble Engineering
Company acquired the conference in December of 2012.
"We want our attendees to walk away with something real, that
immediately improves their lives and addresses the day-to-day
challenges they face," said Jozef Levi, a speaker at the conference
and technical application engineer for circuit breaker and TDR test
instruments at Doble Engineering Company. A long-standing leader in
the circuit breaker and testing community, Levi holds a U.S.
disconnecting switch patent, with special interest in electrical
contacts for high voltage circuit breakers and disconnect
switches.
Punctuating the conference, two of the region's leading
manufacturers, Hitachi HVB, Inc. and Southern States, LLC will also
open their factories and provide interactive tours to conference
attendees, allowing them to create their own test plans and
determine effectiveness.
"It's easy to look past some of the basic components in the
electric power system, but maintaining and testing circuit breakers
is incredibly important," said Kevin
Case, Product Services Manager of Hitachi HVB, Inc.
"We sincerely welcome all the Finepoint attendees, and hope to
share what we've learned over the years, providing them with useful
information they can take home."
Over the course of five days, the conference will provide
extensive, hands-on circuit breaker training, switchgear and
substation maintenance, and testing strategies -- all from the
industry's foremost experts and all designed for immediate
implementation.
"Innovation through collaboration is the key to a better running
power grid," said Jeff Howe, Vice
President and General Manager of the Power Switching Division of
Southern States, LLC. "Doble is giving us an outstanding platform
to give back to our community with this conference and learn from
each other at the same time."
Training sessions will cover new industry topics such as on-load
tap changers, and provide the most up-to-date regulatory
requirements; a full schedule can be found on the conference
website. Additionally, for the first time this year, attendees will
have the opportunity to earn Continuing Education Units.
With nearly a century of providing industry-leading diagnostic
and testing innovation and intelligence, Doble Engineering Company
is the trusted and experienced third-party authority in the
electric power industry. Doble Engineering Company's solutions are
backed by the broadest and most comprehensive database of
historical test data, and give energy providers unprecedented
access to the tools, data and information needed to make educated
decisions about the reliability and efficiency of the power
grid.
To register or download a request for approval letter for
the Finepoint Circuit Breaker Test & Maintenance
Training Conference, please visit the conference
website.
About Doble Engineering Company
Now in 110 countries,
Doble Engineering Company has been helping clients in the electric
power industry improve operations and optimize system performance
for nearly a century. Doble offers diagnostic instruments,
services, and the world's premier library of statistically
significant apparatus test results for the benefit of energy
generation, transmission, delivery companies and industrial power
users worldwide. Doble is part of the Utility Solutions Group of
ESCO Technologies Inc. (NYSE: ESE), St.
Louis. For more information, visit: www.doble.com
About Southern States, LLC
Southern States, LLC
is the world leader in the design and manufacture of high-voltage
switching devices. Our vertically integrated manufacturing
plant provides complete control of product from inception to
completion. Over 430 people with one goal - to increase the
reliability of our customer's utility system by providing the best
switching and protection products available in the industry.
For more information please visit our website
www.southernstatesllc.com
About Hitachi America,
Ltd.
Hitachi America, Ltd.,
headquartered in Tarrytown, New
York, a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., and its subsidiary
companies, offers a broad range of electronics, power and
industrial equipment and services, automotive products and consumer
electronics with operations throughout the Americas. For more
information, visit www.hitachi-america.us. For more
information on other Hitachi Group companies in the United States, please visit
www.hitachi.us.
Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a leading global electronics
company with approximately 326,000 employees worldwide. The
company's consolidated revenues for fiscal 2012 (ended March 31, 2013) totaled 9,041 billion yen ($96.1
billion). Hitachi is focusing more than ever on the Social
Innovation Business, which includes infrastructure systems,
information & telecommunication systems, power systems,
construction machinery, high functional material & components,
automotive systems and others. For more information on Hitachi,
please visit the company's website
at http://www.hitachi.com.
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