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News Release from: Iris Power Engineering
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 18 February 2005
Staff are precious resource for Iris
Iris Power Engineering is celebrating the 15th anniversary of its founding by four individuals and Ontario Hydro.
In 1990, Iris Power Engineering was founded by four individuals and Ontario Hydro Steve Campbell, Resi Zarb-Lloyd, Blake Lloyd and Greg Stone pooled their financial resources and considerable talents to venture into the world of private enterprise leaving the nurturing confines of Ontario Hydro's Research Division
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 18 Dec 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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With the help of many faithful customers and supporters, Iris has grown at an amazing rate from four employees in 1990 to over 70 on two continents in 2005.
From its first delivery of partial discharge analysers, the PDA-IV instrument, to New England Power and Niagara Mohawk Power to a customer base that covers the globe, Iris has established partial discharge monitoring as a worldwide standard in high voltage machine maintenance.
Iris has pioneered the concepts of "predictive maintenance" and "condition based monitoring" for rotating machine windings, a practice that is now assumed to be basic in any medium or high voltage rotating machine maintenance programme.
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Iris has grown as a result of its distinct focus on tools and techniques for high voltage equipment partial discharge monitoring.
The rapid success of the company has come about on the basis of the mutual benefit for both the maintenance managers responsible for the reliability of their precious assets, and the production managers using these assets to generate revenue.
Their concerns are Iris' concerns.
Working with its customers, industry and international standards associations, Iris is exploring new methods to improve and expand the ways in which equipment can be used to its full potential.
With almost one fifth of the company's annual budgeted expenditure going back into research and development, Iris continues to be the industry leader through innovation and continuous improvement of its products and services.
Iris reckons that it is the talents and knowledge of its employees that allow it to continue to build on its success in delivering practical solutions.
The company says its staff is its most precious resource.
From the world experts in rotating machines that review the condition of customers' machines, to the highly trained and quality conscious technicians and engineers who install, manufacture and maintain its instrumentation, Iris focuses its resources on its people through continuous training and development.
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