Global Contact.

Issue 3-2008.

Global Contact is KEMA’s worldwide quarterly magazine that is distributed among 15.000 of KEMA’s clients and relations. Global Contact is a broad platform. It includes news from around KEMA as well as articles providing insight into today’s critical energy and utility trends and topics, and the divers projects KEMA and her clients are working on.  

This issue features:

 ‘INNOVATION DOESN’T JUST HAPPEN SPONTANEOUSLY’ - Established technologies and practices can’t always provide solutions to all of the issues facing modern society. With this in mind, KEMA has appointed managers to systematically promote innovation at three of its sites. One of them is Kees van den Ende. He believes that a network of divergent experts joining forces is needed for successful innovation.  

VENEZUELAON THE WAY TO LARGE-SCALE ENERGY PRODUCTION -  Recently, German company MAN Ferrostaal Industrial Projects built Venezuela’s first modern 475-MW plant with support from KEMA. The partners worked together to resolve the challenge of steam quality that stood in the way of commissioning.    

THE CAR AS A FLEXIBLEPEAKSHAVER - The automobile industry and the electricity sector are totally different worlds that, thanks to the clamor for sustainable energy supplies, have found one another. 

RISK ANALYSIS AS A BASIS FOR SMART TANK INSPECTION - The internal inspection of storage tanks is an expensive and time-consuming business. However, following the introduction of more modern regulations to supersede the aging and prescriptive rules that used to govern tank inspection, there is now more scope for using smart methods and techniques.    

SMART LOGISTICS - While the actual testing of a power transformer takes about eight hours, the associated logistic activities a short circuit test program typically take about three weeks. KEMA has been working hard to find ways of streamlining the logistic processes involved.    

CERTIFICATION WITH ANEYETO THE FUTURE -  IT firms and companies with their own IT departments can now distinguish themselves from the competition through ISO 20000 certification. Bringing in the expertise of KEMA’s auditors means that they get much more than just a certificate.

TURBINE-BASED ASSET OPTIMIZATION - In the North American market, KEMA is helping utilities ensure the efficiency, availability and sustainability of their turbine-based asset operations through non destructive engineering and testing services.